Cato Institute: Immigrants Are a Net Positive

[Lesh]

To the tune of over 4.6 trillion dollars

With illegals net positive 1.7 trillion

And both the legal and illegal commit crimes at a far lower rate than citizens

Cato is NOT. “Far left” org

They are a conservative think tank

Want To Reduce The Debt And Lower The Crime Rate? Bring In Even More Immigrants.

Contrary to Trump's claims, immigrants, even illegal ones, use fewer services and commit fewer crimes than native-born Americans, according to Cato Institute studies.

www.huffpost.com

 

[martybegan]

To the tune of over 4.6 trillion dollars

With illegals net positive 1.7 trillion

And both the legal and illegal commit crimes at a far lower rate than citizens

Cato is NOT. “Far left” org

They are a conservative think tank

Want To Reduce The Debt And Lower The Crime Rate? Bring In Even More Immigrants.

Contrary to Trump's claims, immigrants, even illegal ones, use fewer services and commit fewer crimes than native-born Americans, according to Cato Institute studies.

www.huffpost.com

They believe in AGW.

/thread.

 

[Lockback]

The CATO Institue lost its panache about 25 years ago.

 

[g5000]

To the tune of over 4.6 trillion dollars

With illegals net positive 1.7 trillion

And both the legal and illegal commit crimes at a far lower rate than citizens

Cato is NOT. “Far left” org

They are a conservative think tank

Want To Reduce The Debt And Lower The Crime Rate? Bring In Even More Immigrants.

Contrary to Trump's claims, immigrants, even illegal ones, use fewer services and commit fewer crimes than native-born Americans, according to Cato Institute studies.

www.huffpost.com

I've been pointing this out for a very long time.

But reality does not matter to the cult. It does not impinge on their training one bit.

 

[Anomalism]

They believe in AGW.

/thread.

Yes, that's because it's supported by empirical evidence collected by scientists the planet over.

 

[Lesh]

The CATO Institue lost its panache about 25 years ago.

Not crazy enough for you huh?

 

[martybegan]

Yes, that's because it's supported by empirical evidence collected by scientists the planet over.

The they weasel out of it by saying they believe it, but government isn't the right solution to fix it.

They are globalist free trade open border idiots.

 

[g5000]

The CATO Institue lost its panache about 25 years ago.

But not their integrity.

They lost their influence because dipshits like you have been deliberately steered away from facts, truth, honesty, and morality.

 

[Lockback]

Not crazy enough for you huh?

Too stupid and paid for.

 

[Anomalism]

To the tune of over 4.6 trillion dollars

With illegals net positive 1.7 trillion

And both the legal and illegal commit crimes at a far lower rate than citizens

Cato is NOT. “Far left” org

They are a conservative think tank

Want To Reduce The Debt And Lower The Crime Rate? Bring In Even More Immigrants.

Contrary to Trump's claims, immigrants, even illegal ones, use fewer services and commit fewer crimes than native-born Americans, according to Cato Institute studies.

www.huffpost.com

Your framing is misleading. There are areas where they are a net negative too. Let me know if you wish to contest this point and I'll provide a list that is supported by studies.

Also, it's important to note that most conservatives don't take a position against all immigrants. Arguing as if they do is also misleading.

 

[g5000]

About 40 percent of our Ph.D. scientists and engineers were born in another country, Orrenius writes. People tend to focus on illegal or low-skilled immigration when discussing immigrants and often do not recognize the tremendous contribution of high-skilled immigrants.​

Dallas Federal Reserve


A new study, released last week, throws new information into the debate over foreign workers who arrive in the U.S. on such specialty visas.

The report, based on telephone surveys with 2,054 companies and projections by researchers at the University of California at Berkeley and Duke University, says about 25 percent of the technology and engineering companies launched in the U.S. in the past decade had at least one foreign-born founder.

Immigrants Become Founding Fathers


These immigrant founders tended to be highly educated - 96 percent held bachelor's degrees and 74 percent held graduate or postgraduate degrees, with 75 percent of these degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics-related fields. The vast majority of these company founders didn't come to the United States as entrepreneurs 52 percent came to study, 40 percent came to work, and 5.5 percent came for family reasons. Only 1.6 percent came to start companies in America.

Even though these founders immigrated for other purposes initially, they typically started their companies just 13.25 years after arriving in the United States. And, rather than settling in well-established immigrant gateways, such as New York or Los Angeles, they moved to a diverse group of tech centers across the country and helped fuel their growth.

http://www.kauffman.org/uploadedFiles/WadhwaTBook09.pdf
While 23 percent of the nation's cooks and 20 percent of its janitors were immigrants in 2000, 27 percent of new computer-software engineers were also immigrants, according to a recent Migration Policy Institute study.

Indeed, the more technically educated the group, the more likely immigrants are to be overrepresented in it. While the foreign born make up 15 percent of the overall workforce, according to the 2000 census, they constitute approximately 17 percent of those with a bachelor's degree in science and engineering occupations, 29 percent of those with a master's degree, and 39 percent of those with a doctoral degree.


As US nears milestone, a rising mix of immigrants - CSMonitor.com

 

[martybegan]

About 40 percent of our Ph.D. scientists and engineers were born in another country, Orrenius writes. People tend to focus on illegal or low-skilled immigration when discussing immigrants and often do not recognize the tremendous contribution of high-skilled immigrants.​

Dallas Federal Reserve


A new study, released last week, throws new information into the debate over foreign workers who arrive in the U.S. on such specialty visas.

The report, based on telephone surveys with 2,054 companies and projections by researchers at the University of California at Berkeley and Duke University, says about 25 percent of the technology and engineering companies launched in the U.S. in the past decade had at least one foreign-born founder.

Immigrants Become Founding Fathers


These immigrant founders tended to be highly educated - 96 percent held bachelor's degrees and 74 percent held graduate or postgraduate degrees, with 75 percent of these degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics-related fields. The vast majority of these company founders didn't come to the United States as entrepreneurs 52 percent came to study, 40 percent came to work, and 5.5 percent came for family reasons. Only 1.6 percent came to start companies in America.

Even though these founders immigrated for other purposes initially, they typically started their companies just 13.25 years after arriving in the United States. And, rather than settling in well-established immigrant gateways, such as New York or Los Angeles, they moved to a diverse group of tech centers across the country and helped fuel their growth.

http://www.kauffman.org/uploadedFiles/WadhwaTBook09.pdf
While 23 percent of the nation's cooks and 20 percent of its janitors were immigrants in 2000, 27 percent of new computer-software engineers were also immigrants, according to a recent Migration Policy Institute study.

Indeed, the more technically educated the group, the more likely immigrants are to be overrepresented in it. While the foreign born make up 15 percent of the overall workforce, according to the 2000 census, they constitute approximately 17 percent of those with a bachelor's degree in science and engineering occupations, 29 percent of those with a master's degree, and 39 percent of those with a doctoral degree.


As US nears milestone, a rising mix of immigrants - CSMonitor.com

So what we have to do is take the dregs illegally to get the good legal ones?

LOL

 

[g5000]

Illegals have a violent crime rate half the rate of US citizens.

Illegals have a property crime rate one quarter the rate of US citizens.

You have more to fear from your neighbor Biff than the little brown man in your seeded nightmares.

 

[martybegan]

Illegals have a violent crime rate half the rate of US citizens.

Illegals have a property crime rate one quarter the rate of US citizens.

You have more to fear from your neighbor Biff than the little brown man in your seeded nightmares.

Reported crimes maybe, and of course the blue cities won't report on these sort of things.

The blue zones categorize their data by immigration status?

 

[Anomalism]

Illegals have a violent crime rate half the rate of US citizens.

Illegals have a property crime rate one quarter the rate of US citizens.

You have more to fear from your neighbor Biff than the little brown man in your seeded nightmares.

Why do we have immigration laws at all? Do you think the people that enter this country should have to go through the appropriate systems, or is it okay to ignore U.S policy and enter illegally?

 

[Independent thinker]

To the tune of over 4.6 trillion dollars

With illegals net positive 1.7 trillion

And both the legal and illegal commit crimes at a far lower rate than citizens

Cato is NOT. “Far left” org

They are a conservative think tank

Want To Reduce The Debt And Lower The Crime Rate? Bring In Even More Immigrants.

Contrary to Trump's claims, immigrants, even illegal ones, use fewer services and commit fewer crimes than native-born Americans, according to Cato Institute studies.

www.huffpost.com

Let them come here legally, not illegally.

 

[g5000]

So what we have to do is take the dregs illegally to get the good legal ones?

LOL

People used to wonder how the German people devolved to the point as blithely accepting the mass murder of Jews and other "undesirables".

We now see in real time how it happens.


PHASE I:
MAGA: We're just going to deport the violent illegals. Murderers and rapists and such.

AMERICA: Okay, we're totally cool with that.



PHASE II:
MAGA: Just kidding. We're going to deport all the illegals, even the ones who pick the crops which put food on your table.

AMERICA: Hmmmm...


PHASE III:
MAGA: We are not stopping there. Sorry. We're also going to grab legal immigrant college kids off the street who use their free speech to speak out against the genocide in Gaza.

AMERICA: Not cool, man.



PHASE IV:
MAGA: Oh, yeah? Well, we're removing those who are here under protected status, too!

AMERICA: What the hell is going on here?


PHASE V:
MAGA: We're also going to violate the Constitution and revoke birthright citizenship.

AMERICA: Looks like its time for a nationwide record-setting No Kings protest.


PHASE VI:
SUPREME COURT: We are revoking the protection granted to our citizens since our Founding which protected them from abuses by the police.
TRUMP: Our police now have total immunity from prosecution.


PHASE VII:
MAGA: Vee vill also henzzzfort ban zee immigraztion of peoplez fr-r-r-rom zhitzhole countreez!

AMERICA: We disapprove in record numbers.


PHASE VIII:
MAGA: And now, we are going to remove the citizenship of people who piss us off with their words!


PHASE IX:
GESTAPO: Now we are brutalizing and murdering US citizens with total immunity!

 

[Anomalism]

Let them come here legally, not illegally.

The OP is using a very misleading frame in my opinion.

Most conservatives don't have an issue with legal immigrants. We have laws for a reason though, and they should be abided by. Wanting immigrants to follow the law when entering our country is not unreasonable.

 

[Eman623]

If Cato is not distinguishing between legal and illegal immigrants, then this study is worthless.

Legal immigrants are a net positive. Illegal immigrants are a net negative.

 

[Lockback]

But not their integrity.

They lost their influence because dipshits like you have been deliberately steered away from facts, truth, honesty, and morality.

There's always one key word missing from these think tank studies:
"LEGAL".
I have no problem with immigrants. We're a nation of 'em.
But there's a difference between someone who comes here LEGALLY, who wants to learn our culture and become part of it and learn English and fit in.
That's quite different from the ILLEGALS that have flooded our country the last few years, many of whom have zero interest in becoming part of the fabric of America. They see us as a free ride.
Well **** that.
And **** you too.