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Study shows value of undocumented immigrants [fake news]
The Connecticut Post ^ | February 25, 2017 | Bill Cummings

Posted on 02/25/2017 3:14:01 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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So now we have one political party that is mostly okay with law-breaking and another that is completely fine with it?
1 posted on 02/25/2017 3:14:01 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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Fake study to create fake news to be reported on by fake news organizations.


2 posted on 02/25/2017 3:18:32 PM PST by TaxPayer2000
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Cause these ####s don’t get 6 thousand dollar earned income credit at the end of the year.

And they dont suck schools and hospitals and doctor’s offices and SNAP dry.

GTF out of here with this bull#### argument. That goes for dems and RINOs


3 posted on 02/25/2017 3:20:07 PM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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I don’t believe it’s fake. I DO believe they cost TWICE as much as they’re contributing, if you see my other post.

Money spent that is given by the govt isn’t ####ing a boom to a town.


4 posted on 02/25/2017 3:21:38 PM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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The New American Economy, a coalition of mayors and business leaders who support “sensible” immigration reform, found that the nearly 130,000 undocumented Connecticut residents pay $397 million in annual federal, state and local taxes, account for $3.1 billion in household income and represent $2.7 billion in spending power.

“This research proves what we’ve known for years: Immigrants are a boom to our local economy and in every community in America,” said Lucas Codognolla, an undocumented Stamford resident and executive director of CT Students for a Dream.


Shouldn’t we also add in the major costs to society, of having so many illegal aliens in our midst? Yes we know that many are working and contributing, and paying taxes. But what of the costs of illegals??

We need a true balance sheet accounting of this. Let’s take all these income indicators and then subtract the costs of illegals to society.

And let’s talk about the intangibles too, such as the negative changes to society which can’t be measured in dollars and cents.

I think a study such as this is biased right off the bat, in that, it tries to reduce the issues with illegal aliens to a strict dollars and cents comparison. And cherry picks certain indicators which are favorable to having illegals in this country.


5 posted on 02/25/2017 3:22:01 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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So why aren’t the border just completely opened then? Let them in, and let them settle in CT

And let’s see how “accurate” this little survey really is

That anyone would try to justify law breaking from the get-go and then lie to “rationalize” it shows how screwed up they are.

The better solution is let the mayors et al move to Mexico and bring the equivalent “value” as well as “diversify” the population.


6 posted on 02/25/2017 3:22:03 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat ("Liberalism is a mental disorder" On FULL Display NOW BOYCOTT Mexico NFL PepsiCO Kellogg's)
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if each of the 130,000 had 1 kid in school at 10,000 a pop, that alone would be 1.3 billion...


7 posted on 02/25/2017 3:22:21 PM PST by babygene (Make America Great Again)
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New American Economyis comprised of:

Michael Bloomberg
Bob Igor (ABC - Disney)
Julian Castro
Michael Nutter (Mayor of Philadelphia)
Rupert Murdoch
Bill Marriott (Marriott Hotels)
Jim McNerney (Boing)

So aligned with the usual leftists are members of the Cheap Labor Express, such as those who need hotel staff.

Acting as my own Snopes, I declare this report:

FAKE!

8 posted on 02/25/2017 3:22:33 PM PST by Obadiah (Democrats continue their crusade against normal.)
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How the hell does an illegal pay federal, state and local income taxes without a social security number?


9 posted on 02/25/2017 3:22:45 PM PST by americanbychoice3
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Illegal aliens often use TINs to claim the earned child credit. They usually work off the books and obtain social services using false IDs. I seriously doubt these numbers. They usually rent apartments, thus not paying anything close to real property taxes, they have no health insurance and use the ERs as their primary care and pay nothing towards their bills, they use the public schools for their illegal alien children who get free breakfast and lunch, they drive cars without driver licenses or insurance, and they, for the most part, have lived in the US free of the worry of deportation.

Yeah, I can see how this article is BS.


10 posted on 02/25/2017 3:23:14 PM PST by NoKoolAidforMe (Liberalism is a mental disorder.)
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Illegals can live without fear in the country where they are a citizen.


11 posted on 02/25/2017 3:23:52 PM PST by joshua c (Cut the cord! Don't pay for the rope they hang you with.)
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They are not “Undocumented Immigrants.” They are not here because of a clerical error. They are ILLEGAL ALIENS! Calling them undocumented immigrants is like calling shoplifting an “undocumented purchase.”


12 posted on 02/25/2017 3:25:48 PM PST by GreenHornet
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This has to be the most ridiculous argument the Left has put forward in favor of criminal immigration. If illegals contribute such massive revenue to the economy, how much more would be contributed if AMERICANS were the ones earning the money???

Huge amounts of our treasury get exported to Mexico by illegals; the money doesn't stay in this country, so it can't do any good here!

13 posted on 02/25/2017 3:26:53 PM PST by IronJack
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These mayors and business leaders are all sending the same message: Nations are to be subservient to global, integrated capitalism.


14 posted on 02/25/2017 3:26:55 PM PST by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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No. GTFO.

I wouldn’t DREAM of crossing another nation’s borders unlawfully, and yes, I have been poor and hungry and all of that.

I go way back in this country. I have paid in, in full. I am terminally ill, and having the worst time persuading myself to file for disability or food stamps or anything else at all.

If you illegally enter the country and file for well, everything, F you.


15 posted on 02/25/2017 3:28:02 PM PST by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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If they’re so very valuable, why don’t they go home and add to the national wealth of their native countries?

If they all go back and add their value back home, maybe they can alleviate poverty all over the world!


16 posted on 02/25/2017 3:28:11 PM PST by Steely Tom (Liberals think in propaganda)
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If they’re so valuable, why doesn’t their own President/country want them back?


17 posted on 02/25/2017 3:29:07 PM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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... WHAT IS THE COST OF DROPPING AN IMPREGNATED EGG EVERY NINE MONTHS.... PRETTY SOON THE LITTLE RASCALS VOTE.


18 posted on 02/25/2017 3:30:13 PM PST by ptsal
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If they’re so valuable, why doesn’t their own President/country want them back?

An obvious question no one in the MSM will ask.

Perhaps President Trump will ask it.

19 posted on 02/25/2017 3:32:34 PM PST by Steely Tom (Liberals think in propaganda)
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Why weren’t they a boon to Mexico? I thing somebody is pulling our leg.


20 posted on 02/25/2017 3:34:27 PM PST by umgud
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