Totally wrong. If each of the 12 million illegals made just 1000 dollars each per year, that is 12 billion right there. Fact is, most of them avg. 1000 dollars or more per month.
"Totally wrong. If each of the 12 million illegals made just 1000 dollars each per year, that is 12 billion right there. Fact is, most of them avg. 1000 dollars or more per month."
Fact is they send most of it to relatives in Mexico, how does that contribute to our economy?
That should be $5B in tax revenue, not GDP. The author of the piece below did not account the cost of incarceration or uncompensated heath care, only direct welfare payments.
http://www.econlib.org/LIBRARY/Enc/Immigration.html
As for inflation, check out Sowell's column for today:
http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/thomassowell/2006/03/29/191639.html