ROBERT RECTOR, HERITAGE FOUNDATION: Illegal aliens cost a lot at the present time, but if you give them amnesty, one effect is that they will all have access to Social Security, Medicare, this program called Supplemental Security Income, Medicaid when they retire, OK?
So the real impact of amnesty would be -- let's say you have 12 million people. You give them amnesty. The impact of that, the net requirement cost alone would be negative $2.5 to $3 trillion. Negative $2.5 to $3 trillion.
DOBBS: $2.5 to $3 million?
RECTOR: Yes. And that's with 12 million. You're taking 10 million people and putting them into Social Security. That is one of the biggest budget impacts -- that is the single budget -- biggest budget impact I've seen in a quarter of a century. It's fantastically expensive, and it is fantastically irresponsible for Congress to be contemplating that, and they don't have a clue in the world, they don't care what it will cost. RECTOR: You know what? If you look at low-skill immigrants, OK, which most illegals are, in fact, in every stage of their life cycle, they take more in benefits than they pay in, in taxes.
Each -- each low-skilled immigrant -- and illegals are predominantly low-skilled immigrants -- that comes across to the United States, if they bring a family with them, the net cost that they impose on the taxpayers, benefits received minus taxes, is over $1 million over their lifetimes. It's fantastically expensive.
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We need to get more liberals/democrats on our side of this issue. 1. Unions should be against this amnesty/lax immigration issue because they lower the pay scales and take away good jobs. 2. Enviros should be against this because once they come here, these immigrants have many more children than they would back home, thus increasing the world population growth. They also buy more houses, consume more goods, etc., than they were doing where they came from.
Works for me! Ship ‘em all out.
There was a modern industrialized country of about 50 million which had no problem deporting about eight million people in the twentieth century.
He should be President. Right now.
Lou Come to Farmers Branch!
That would like creat 12 million new jobs now?
If Lou was on FOXNews and said this, the left would be demanding the whole network be shut down. Since it’s CNN, they just want to censor Lou. I wouldn’t be suprised if he got fired, but a better idea would be to trade geraldo to CNN and bring lou to FOX. I’m not crazy about lou, but getting rid of geraldo would be a big improvement.
Traffic has increased since then.
All that is needed to move 15.0 million additional passengers is a 2% increase in normal lift capacity. All illegal aliens could be deported quite easily.