Let's take a look at some unbiased calculations:
- A study by the the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office that found the immigration reform bill would shrink the deficit by $197 billion over the next decade.
- A study by the Brookings Institution's Hamilton Project that found an increase in immigrant workers may lead to a boost in wages for U.S-born workers.
The majority of the American people appear behind such a change as well. Some 75 percent of Americans say that granting undocumented immigrants legal status would be good for the economy, Pew Research reported in June.
(So much for the "deadbeat" canard... wait, thank you for that contribution,
Ma)
So would the illegal drug trade, human slave rings and public corruption of government officials. The fact that we could make money off of them does not make it any less illegal.
(" If undocumented immigrants acquire legal status and citizenship, they will contribute far more to the Social Security system than they will take out and will strengthen the solvency of Social Security over the next 36 years.")
However, if immigration were based on need instead of invasion it would probably add almost as much to the trust fund, and Congress would have that much more to steal appropriate.
("Economic activity produced by illegal immigrant spending employs about 5% of the total US workforce.")
What part of ILLEGAL is confusing? Why have a immigration policy to begin with? Why have borders?
("The Texas State Comptroller reported in 2006 that the 1.4 million illegal immigrants in Texas alone added almost $18 billion to the state's budget, and paid $1.2 billion in state services they used.")
