$6.3 Trillion for legalization
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The comprehensive immigration overhaul being taken up in the Senate this week could cost taxpayers $6.3 trillion if 11 million illegal immigrants are granted legal status, according to a long-awaited estimate by the conservative Heritage Foundation.
The cost would arise from illegal immigrants tapping into the government's vast network of benefits and services, many of which are currently unavailable to them. This includes everything from standard benefits like Social Security and Medicare to dozens of welfare programs ranging from housing assistance to food stamps.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/05 ... z2SWqPSqD6
why not.....we'll just pull the money out of our ass's like we do for everything else,right Mr. President ?
Godfather.
The cost would arise from illegal immigrants tapping into the government's vast network of benefits and services, many of which are currently unavailable to them. This includes everything from standard benefits like Social Security and Medicare to dozens of welfare programs ranging from housing assistance to food stamps.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/05 ... z2SWqPSqD6
why not.....we'll just pull the money out of our ass's like we do for everything else,right Mr. President ?
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from the article
The $6.3 trillion figure is based on what illegal immigrants would cost the government over the course of their lifetime. It factors in the expected $3.1 trillion in taxes they'd pay to the government.
I think heritage foundation estimates tend to be on the high side. Hard to say exactly what would happen but numbers like this are simply used to prove a point, one that really doesn't need proving as they are already a cost to the system that is hard to quantify and the benefits that giving them legal citizenship might bring could be vastly beneficial to the country over time. I mean, can you really put a price on a more secure boarder with better access to the United States for all who want to come here and be productive member of society?
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it's bullshit in my opinion,they break the law to enter our country then this half wit of a president wants to give them all legal status with all the benifits I have contrubited to all my working life...it friggin pisses me off big time.
Godfather.
I hear you but to do nothing and just stay the course doesn't make any sense i say either let's get something done or try to deport them wich could never get done ...
Maybe they'll come up with a new green card that obligates the holder to purchase some newly legalized green thereby offsetting the $6.3 trillion. Just thinking outside the box. :P
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Heritage: We Have Nothing To Do With Racial Immigration Study
BENJY SARLIN 2:03 PM EDT, WEDNESDAY MAY 8, 2013
The Heritage Foundation is disavowing past recommendations regarding race, IQ, and immigration from Jason Richwine, the co-author of a recent study by the group claming undocumented immigrants would add $6.3 trillion to the deficit if granted legal status.
“This is not a work product of The Heritage Foundation. Its findings in no way reflect the positions of The Heritage Foundation," Mike Gonzales, vice president of communications at Heritage, said in a statement. "Nor do the findings affect the conclusions of our study on the cost of amnesty to the U.S. taxpayer.”
Richwine argued in a 2009 paper that immigrants should be barred based on low IQ, which he claimed would have the effect of keeping out many Hispanics in particular, who may have a "genetic" predilection towards lower intelligence.
“No one knows whether Hispanics will ever reach IQ parity with whites, but the prediction that new Hispanic immigrants will have low-IQ children and grandchildren is difficult to argue against," Richwine wrote.
He added that it may be advisable to couch these findings in less racially inflammatory terms for political purposes by referring to "skill-based" immigration.
Richwine's Heritage report claimed immigration reform would balloon the deficit primarily because undocumented immigrants would be unable to improve their education and income levels over several generations.
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