Cato Institute: Immigrants Are a Net Positive

[Lesh]

It all fits you so perfectly.

How shocking

Personal attacks are all you have left

 

[Eman623]

They do.

And you’re wrong

Am I? Or is Cato cherry picking the numbers?

Prior research shows that by increasing demand for housing, immigration drives-up costs in areas where immigrants settle. My own analysis indicates that a 5-percentage point increase in the recent immigrant share of a metro area’s population is associated with a 12 percent increase in the average U.S.-born household’s rent, relative to their income. However, more analysis is needed to fully explore this relationship.

Using the National Academies’ estimate of immigrants’ net fiscal impact by age and education level, we estimate that the lifetime fiscal drain (taxes paid minus benefits received) for each illegal immigrant is about $68,000, although this estimate comes with some caveats.

We estimate that 59 percent of households headed by illegal immigrants use one or more welfare programs, creating roughly $42 billion in costs. We also estimate that the children of illegal immigrants, who are mostly U.S.-born, cost public schools $68.1 billion.

Illegal immigrants do add perhaps $321 billion to the nation’s GDP, but this is not a measure of their tax contributions or the benefits they create for the U.S.-born. Almost all the increase in economic activity goes to the illegal immigrants themselves in the form of wages.

There is good evidence that immigration reduces wages and employment for some U.S.-born workers, although distinguishing the impact of illegal immigrants is difficult.

https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Camarota-Testimony.pdf

 

[LAUGHatLEFTISTS]

Yeah. Would be great if they were available in the numbers needed

Instead of raising that number to meet the needs the democrats encouraged and allowed twelve million illegals into the country without any background check.
This makes sense to you.

 

[Lockback]

Instead of raising that number to meet the needs we democrats encouraged and allowed twelve million illegals into the country without any background check.
This makes sense to you.

It's unbelievable. Literally unbelievable that anybody could find that acceptable.

 

[Independent thinker]

That sounds great to someone with the intellectual bandwidth of a bumper sticker.

However, our quota system has been broken for decades, and everyone in Washington knows it.

In fact, George Bush tried to reform our immigration system. But he was stopped by the bigots in your party.

In fact, Republican House Whip Eric Cantor tried to get a reform bill passed, and he was rewarded by being primaried out of office by the bigots.

Even Marco Rubio tried.

You see, you are kept ignorant of the facts on purpose.

We do not have enough legal quota supplies to meet the labor demands.

It always cracks me up to hear MAGAs bragging about full employment and then going full schizo claiming Mexicans are stealing jobs.

A farmer has no choice but to hire illegals. Just google it, and you will find endless stories of them telling you this fact. Americans are not lining up to replace illegals in the fields no matter the wage.


So scrape that bumper sticker off your alleged brain and stop being such a low-information parrot.

Democrats refused to stop the illegals from coming. They wanted to increase legal immigration and also allow illegal immigration. That's why reform never happened. Democrats can't be trusted to halt illegal immigration.

 

[M14 Shooter]

Instead of raising that number to meet the needs the democrats encouraged and allowed twelve million illegals into the country without any background check.
This makes sense to you.

Of course it does.
She sees them as future, and present, votes for Democrats.

 

[Lesh]

Am I? Or is Cato cherry picking the numbers?

Prior research shows that by increasing demand for housing, immigration drives-up costs in areas where immigrants settle. My own analysis indicates that a 5-percentage point increase in the recent immigrant share of a metro area’s population is associated with a 12 percent increase in the average U.S.-born household’s rent, relative to their income. However, more analysis is needed to fully explore this relationship.

Using the National Academies’ estimate of immigrants’ net fiscal impact by age and education level, we estimate that the lifetime fiscal drain (taxes paid minus benefits received) for each illegal immigrant is about $68,000, although this estimate comes with some caveats.

We estimate that 59 percent of households headed by illegal immigrants use one or more welfare programs, creating roughly $42 billion in costs. We also estimate that the children of illegal immigrants, who are mostly U.S.-born, cost public schools $68.1 billion.

Illegal immigrants do add perhaps $321 billion to the nation’s GDP, but this is not a measure of their tax contributions or the benefits they create for the U.S.-born. Almost all the increase in economic activity goes to the illegal immigrants themselves in the form of wages.

There is good evidence that immigration reduces wages and employment for some U.S.-born workers, although distinguishing the impact of illegal immigrants is difficult.

https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Camarota-Testimony.pdf

That’s Steven Camarata from the CIS

And anti immigrant “think tanks”

Center for Immigration Studies - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Lesh]

Of course it does.
She sees them as future, and present, votes for Democrats.

You stupid tranny ****

It has nothing to do with votes

In fact IF illegals could vote they would likely vote conservative

 

[ThisIsMe]

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 don’t understand how this works when illegals contribute about 96 billion per year in star, local, and federal taxes each year, but iillegal immigration costs the government about 150B each year.

 

[Eman623]

That’s Steven Camarata from the CIS

And anti immigrant “think tanks”

Center for Immigration Studies - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Ad hominum logical fallacy.

 

[marvin martian]

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

You confederates love your slaves so very much, don't you?

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

You do understand that immigration violations are misdemeanors right?

Not violent

Jay walking is a crime. Are you outraged over THAT? Why not?

The issue is what thy do here. Their value as opposed to their cost

Of course they are generally brown skinned. I hope that doesn’t “color” your outrage

Jay walking is a crime.

I think you should get a jaywalking ticket for every step you take to cross the street. Do you agree?

 

[Oddball]

You do understand that immigration violations are misdemeanors right?

Not violent

Jay walking is a crime. Are you outraged over THAT? Why not?

The issue is what thy do here. Their value as opposed to their cost

Of course they are generally brown skinned. I hope that doesn’t “color” your outrage

Right...Civil midemeanors.

As such, they're not subject to judicial warrants for the violators to be detained deported, without any further legal folderol.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

So is Jay walking

Where’s your outrage there

So is a waitress lying about her tips

Where is your outrage about that?

If you're arrested for jaywalking and you entered the country illegally, you should be deported.
If you entered the country illegally and you commit tax fraud, you should be deported.

 

[Lesh]

If you're arrested for jaywalking and you entered the country illegally, you should be deported.
If you entered the country illegally and you commit tax fraud, you should be deported.

So if you do none of those things… you can stay?

 

[Seymour Flops]

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

Of course "immigrants" are a net positive, both financially and in many other ways.

Gang members traficking children and drugs across the border with impunity as happened under Biden is not a net positive, not matter how you present numbers.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

So if you do none of those things… you can stay?

If you're here illegally and you interact with government in any way, you should be deported.

 

[j-mac]

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

This shit has been debunked for a long time.

 

[dblack]

The CATO Institue lost its panache about 25 years ago.

Coincidentally, that's about when Rs gave up on conservatism. Hmmm.....

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

I don’t think anyone has a problem with immigrants. All of us Americans are by extension.
It’s illegal immigrants that are the problem.