Posted by moy23 on 8/18/2015 2:48:00 PM (view original):
Posted by evil_twin on 8/18/2015 2:15:00 PM (view original):
Posted by bad_luck on 8/18/2015 2:08:00 PM (view original):
It would be a good stimulus to pump $6.4 billion into a massive construction project.
The thing is, there are only about 11 million illegal immigrants in the US. It's a relatively small problem, especially since most of them work, pay taxes, and aren't eligible for welfare.
It's probably smarter to spend $6.4 billion somewhere else. Like on arenas for teams owned by billionaires.
Here's an idea, how about putting that money toward repairing and maintaining our crumbling infrastructure?
Illegal immigrants cost US tax payers $113 billion per year..... And send $50 billion a year back to their home countries which is why other countries have no problem with emigration. It helps their economies.
Yeah, that FAIR study has been debunked.
This is from
Alex Nowrasteh, a researcher at the conservative Cato institute:
"FAIR's numerous errors, poor methodology, and failure to address criticisms of its previous work on this issue fatally undermine this study. FAIR's methodology is so flawed that it leads to absurd conclusions. Applying its study's reasoning to studying the children of American citizens, one could conclude that it never pays to have children because the fiscal costs will always outweigh the benefits. That is prima facie absurd.
FAIR ignores the benefits of unauthorized immigration by claiming that other people, namely American citizens who are unemployed or underemployed, would step into the void. That conclusion ignores economic reality. Those who are unemployed or underemployed do not live in a state of economic hibernation cut off from all activity. Even if the jobs and businesses left vacant after deporting all unauthorized immigrants were somehow filled by Americans, the economic activity of those millions of people is still lost."
EDIT: Here is the link to Nowrasteh's piece
8/18/2015 7:25 PM (edited)