Texas, the second-hardest-hit state after California, would lose 1.2 million undocumented workers and $220.7 billion in expenditures.
By the author's calculations then, each illegal immigrant in Texas is generating $183,333 in expenditures.
What a steaming pile of BS.
The comments posted on the article are not kind to the authors.
Nor should they be.
Over the top figure from a NAFTA TTC hack who routinely slants his data for the bucks received by same clientele. Besides most dollars earned by illegals goes back to Me-hi-co anyway to help pay the way for la familia to pay the coyotes for safe passage to the big USA social services lottery payoff.
You can lop-off 50 percent of that “price” by paying Americans the proper wages which are now discounted by our peasant labor force.
Then subtract the $35 billion in foreign remittances which would disappear.
Add back the billion$$ for social services and you’re getting close to a net gain.
I’m in.
"We need comprehensive reform that looks at our needs and addresses those needs,"
Oh, you mean your need for greed? - the need to hire people at wages that only someone desperate enough to risk their life crossing the border illegally would agree to? Pay more, and contribute to the American economy and the welfare of legal citizens.
Perryman said that with many of the nation's baby boomers retiring and the nation experiencing a low unemployment rate, undocumented immigrants are performing the jobs other American workers could not.
There will be no retirement funds available to those legal citizens who have already contributed from their earned income because we continue to foot the bill for illegals and their welfare.
I think we’ll take the risk.
1.8 trillion??? Did they figure this in pesos instead of dollars? Cosidering the exchange rate, that equals out to be about the cost of a used El Camino.
That’s like saying if only bank robbers would stop robbing banks the the banks would have more money to loan ....these media idiots always talk about how much money they pay in taxes and how much they generate in revenue but not how much those illegals cost our system that we pay for ....
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the resurrection of fuzzy math...
This is seriously the dumbest study I've ever read. At $222,000 per person, if we multiplied that amount by our population of 300 million, we'd have an economy the size of $67 trillion. Amazingly though, our GDP is only $14 trillion or nearly 80% smaller than listed for an illegal on a per person basis (around $46k per person). If this author and the group that conducted the study honestly believe that for the most part uneducated illegal alien is 5x more valuable to our economy than the average US citizen I would like some of the drugs you are on. More likely they are at best half as productive as the average US Citizen or around $23k per year at BEST. When you figure all of the various costs to society they require AND remittance back home the US is getting crushed by illegals. Do any newspapers do any research or basic math anymore before they do any reports or is just all propaganda?
They can all pack up and GO for all I care. I’m looking forward to getting my country back.
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