As this post will reveal, there is no economic benefit to the United States from immigration.
The issue is totally political, and championed by the same folks who hate the nation that the Founders created, and gave us an undeserving President who wanted to 'fundamentally transform' this nation.
1. The reason that the Democrats/Liberals encourage illegal/legal immigration is for one reason and one reason only: immigrants vote for the Democrats.
There is no other benefit to this nation.
None.
Immigrants keep wages low, and unemployment of Americans high; it costs billions in welfare services and police costs high.
It is only through the actions of Democrats and illegal aliens that the Left is able to claim a popular vote victory in the last election.
After all, Obama told illegal aliens to get out and vote.
a. Since the 1965 Democrat Immigration Act, the nations that formed the original culture of the country have been relegated to nearly zero legal immigrants.
Case in point, we take more immigrants from Nigeria than we do from Britain.
https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/Lawful_Permanent_Residents_2013.pdf
2. There is the claim is that the economy needs immigrants.
"...undocumented immigrants are paying billions of dollar in taxes into state and local coffers, and that substantially more would be generated if President Obama prevails in imposing a new executive order protecting many of those workers from deportation."
Study Finds Illegal Immigrants Pay $11.8B in Taxes
But the facts aren't their friend...
“The conservative Heritage Foundation estimated unlawful immigrant households paid $39.2 billion in 2010, but received $93.7 billion in government services.” -- Oliver Darcy
[So much for that fable.]
15 Stats That Destroy Liberal Narratives
a. “In all, nearly 60 percent of immigrants—legal and illegal—are on government assistance, compared with 39 percent of native households. Why would any country voluntarily bring in people who have to be supported by the taxpayer?”
― Ann Coulter, ¡Adios, America!: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole
3.
"....illegal immigration cost $135 billion a year...."
'...these pay about $19 billion a year in taxes..."
"....tuition at public colleges is about $70 billion a year....eliminate illegal immigration and we'd have every public college in the country tuition free, with some $50 billion left over...."
And so we find, again, that for Liberals/Democrats.....the only thing that matters is growing their political power.
The issue is totally political, and championed by the same folks who hate the nation that the Founders created, and gave us an undeserving President who wanted to 'fundamentally transform' this nation.
1. The reason that the Democrats/Liberals encourage illegal/legal immigration is for one reason and one reason only: immigrants vote for the Democrats.
There is no other benefit to this nation.
None.
Immigrants keep wages low, and unemployment of Americans high; it costs billions in welfare services and police costs high.
It is only through the actions of Democrats and illegal aliens that the Left is able to claim a popular vote victory in the last election.
After all, Obama told illegal aliens to get out and vote.
a. Since the 1965 Democrat Immigration Act, the nations that formed the original culture of the country have been relegated to nearly zero legal immigrants.
Case in point, we take more immigrants from Nigeria than we do from Britain.
https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/Lawful_Permanent_Residents_2013.pdf
2. There is the claim is that the economy needs immigrants.
"...undocumented immigrants are paying billions of dollar in taxes into state and local coffers, and that substantially more would be generated if President Obama prevails in imposing a new executive order protecting many of those workers from deportation."
Study Finds Illegal Immigrants Pay $11.8B in Taxes
But the facts aren't their friend...
“The conservative Heritage Foundation estimated unlawful immigrant households paid $39.2 billion in 2010, but received $93.7 billion in government services.” -- Oliver Darcy
[So much for that fable.]
15 Stats That Destroy Liberal Narratives
a. “In all, nearly 60 percent of immigrants—legal and illegal—are on government assistance, compared with 39 percent of native households. Why would any country voluntarily bring in people who have to be supported by the taxpayer?”
― Ann Coulter, ¡Adios, America!: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole
3.
"....illegal immigration cost $135 billion a year...."
'...these pay about $19 billion a year in taxes..."
"....tuition at public colleges is about $70 billion a year....eliminate illegal immigration and we'd have every public college in the country tuition free, with some $50 billion left over...."
And so we find, again, that for Liberals/Democrats.....the only thing that matters is growing their political power.
