No, it does not dispute all of my claims. Do you know how to read?
They estimate 12 billion/year paid in taxes. And they estimate 11 billion illegals (which is a BS number, as the number is
22 million, per a Yale/MIT study). Your article also reads, "Factoring out kids, nonworking immigrants and those working in the underground economy and not paying taxes..." Thereby admitting that there's a host of illegals who get away without income tax.
But let's take the incorrectly oft-quoted number of 11 million illegals. Your article states that they ostensibly pay 12 billion/year in taxes. That's about $1,000 put into the pot. Did you see what else your article states? "Heritage noted that the average undocumented immigrant household received about $24,721 in government benefits and services (i.e. public education, welfare benefits and services like police and highways)..." Great - they drain, on net, $23,721 annually. Hooray?
And the article didn't address my points about healthcare dollars, pricing low-skilled Americans out of the labor market, or skewing politics leftward (e.g., by counting toward the census, a step Trump has tried to combat but on which he's been thwarted by treasonous Leftist judges).
Judgment: illegals are a massive drain on America's economy and society.
Do you know how to read?
“Economic impact
Main article:
Economic impact of illegal immigrants in the United States
Illegal immigrants increase the size of the
U.S. economy and contribute to economic growth.
[16] Illegal immigrants contribute to lower prices of US-produced goods and services, which benefits consumers.
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Economists estimate that legalization of the current unauthorized immigrant population would increase the immigrants' earnings
[6][7][8][159][16] and consumption considerably.
[9] A 2016 National Bureau of Economic Research paper found that "legalization would increase the economic contribution of the unauthorized population by about 20%, to 3.6% of private-sector GDP."
[160]Legalization is also likely to reduce untaxed labor in the informal economy.
[16] A 2016 study found that
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), which allows unauthorized immigrants who migrated to the United States as minors to temporarily stay, increases
labor force participation, decreases the unemployment rate and increases the income for DACA-eligible immigrants.
[161] The study estimated that DACA moved 50,000 to 75,000 unauthorized immigrants into employment.
[161]Another 2016 study found that DACA-eligible households were 38% less likely than non-eligible unauthorized immigrant households to live in poverty.
[162]
A 2017 study in the
Journal of Public Economics found that more intense immigration enforcement increased the likelihood that US-born children with illegal immigrant parents would live in poverty.
[163]
Native welfare
A number of studies have shown that illegal immigration increases the welfare of natives.
[164][4][5] A 2015 study found that " increasing deportation rates and tightening border control weakens low-skilled labor markets, increasing unemployment of native low-skilled workers. Legalization, instead, decreases the unemployment rate of low-skilled natives and increases income per native."
[165] A study by economist Giovanni Peri concluded that between 1990 and 2004, immigrant workers raised the wages of native born workers in general by 4%, while more recent immigrants suppressed wages of previous immigrants.
[166]
In a 2017 literature review by the
National Academy of Sciences, they explain the positive impact of illegal immigrants on natives in the following way:
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The entry of new workers through migration increases the likelihood of filling a vacant position quickly and thus reduces the net cost of posting new offers. The fact that immigrants in each skill category earn less than natives reinforces this effect. Though immigrants compete with natives for these additional jobs, the overall number of new positions employers choose to create is larger than the number of additional entrants to the labor market. The effect is to lower the unemployment rate and to strengthen the bargaining position of workers.
According to Georgetown University economist Anna Maria Mayda and University of California, Davis economist Giovanni Peri, "deportation of undocumented immigrants not only threatens the day-to-day life of several million people, it also undermines the economic viability of entire sectors of the US economy." Research shows that illegal immigrants complement and extend middle- and high-skilled American workers, making it possible for those sectors to employ more Americans. Without access to illegal immigrants, U.S. firms would be incentivized to
offshore jobs and import foreign-produced goods. Several highly competitive sectors that depend disproportionately on illegal immigrant labor, such as agriculture, would dramatically shrink and sectors, such as hospitality and food services, would see higher prices for consumers. Regions and cities that have large illegal populations are also likely to see harms to the local economy were the illegal immigrant population removed. While Mayda and Peri note that some low-skilled American workers would see marginal gains, it is likely that the effects on net job creation and wages would be negative for the U.S. as a whole.
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A 2002 study of the effects of illegal immigration and border enforcement on wages in border communities from 1990 to 1997 found little impact of border enforcement on wages in U.S. border cities, and concluded that their findings were consistent with two hypotheses, "border enforcement has a minimal impact on illegal immigration, and illegal immigration from Mexico has a minimal impact on wages in U.S. border cities".
[167]
According to University of California, San Diego economist
Gordon H. Hanson, "there is little evidence that legal immigration is economically preferable to illegal immigration. In fact, illegal immigration responds to market forces in ways that legal immigration does not. Illegal migrants tend to arrive in larger numbers when the U.S. economy is booming (relative to Mexico and the Central American countries that are the source of most illegal immigration to the United States) and move to regions where job growth is strong. Legal immigration, in contrast, is subject to arbitrary selection criteria and bureaucratic delays, which tend to disassociate legal inflows from U.S. labor-market conditions. Over the last half-century, there appears to be little or no response of legal immigration to the U.S. unemployment rate."
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Fiscal effects
Illegal immigrants are not eligible for most federally-funded safety net programs.
[169]Illegal immigrants are barred from receiving benefits from Medicare, non-emergency Medicaid, or the
Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and the Medicare program; they also cannot participate in
health insurance marketplaces and are not eligible to receive insurance subsidies under the
Affordable Care Act.
[169] Illegal immigrants contribute up to $12 billion annually to the
Social Security Trust Fund, but are not eligible to receive any Social Security benefits.
[169] Unless the illegal immigrants transition to legal status, they will not collect these benefits.
[169][16] According to a 2007 literature review by the
Congressional Budget Office, "Over the past two decades, most efforts to estimate the fiscal impact of immigration in the United States have concluded that, in aggregate and over the long term, tax revenues of all types generated by immigrants—both legal and unauthorized—exceed the cost of the services they use."
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While the aggregate fiscal effects are beneficial to the United States, unauthorized immigration has small but net negative fiscal effects on state and local governments.
[2]According to the 2017 National Academy of Science report on immigration, one reason for the adverse fiscal impact on state and local governments is that "the federal government reimburses state and local entities a fraction of costs to incarcerate criminal aliens, the remaining costs are borne by local governments."
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A paper in the peer-reviewed journal Tax Lawyer from the
American Bar Associationconcluded that illegal immigrants contribute more in taxes than they cost in social services.
[170]
A 2016 study found that, over the period 2000–2011, illegal immigrants contributed $2.2 to $3.8 billion more to the Medicare Trust Fund "than they withdrew annually (a total surplus of $35.1 billion). Had unauthorized immigrants neither contributed to nor withdrawn from the Trust Fund during those 11 years, it would become insolvent in 2029—1 year earlier than currently predicted."
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