Posted on 09/23/2016 11:33:02 AM PDT by Rockitz
Officials at a prestigious private D.C.-based think-tank are trying to hide their data showing how immigration is imposing massive costs on wage-earners and on taxpayers. The think-tank, titled The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, is not a government-run agency. It is a privately run think-tank which writes politically influential reports for government and private-sector funders. For example, the group’s new Sept. 22 immigration study was funded by the pro-immigration John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
The jargon-filled, much-caveated, 495-page report does show the information needed to measure how legal and illegal immigration transfers $500 billion a year from the wages paid to working-Americans towards companies, firms, Wall Street investors and to new immigrants. But the report does not provide a dollar figure for the ‘immigration tax.’
Deep in the report, but not in the press release, it shows how each new unskilled immigrant costs state and local taxpayers $1,600 per year. It shows how the annual cost of legal and illegal immigration to state and local taxpayer is at least $57 billion, and that each unskilled immigrant is a net loss to taxpayers for the next 75 years.
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The critical details are difficult to find in the long report, but a useful guide has been published by one member of the committee which wrote the report. Prof. George Borjas, a Harvard expert on immigration, posted his easy-to-use guide on his website. The guide says that,
Unfortunately the report does not give a transparent estimate of the size of the wealth transfer from workers to firms, reporting instead that, on average, wages went down by 5.2 percent. It would be better if they had reported the number of dollars involved in that transfer. That number, it turns out, would be about $500 billion.
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This study can’t be true. The left has been telling us for 20 + yrs that immigration in any form I a net positive, just like welfare expands the economy.
$1,600.00 per illegal alien per year??????
BS.
If not $16,000.00 per illegal alien per year.
(HELL! Some school districts ALONE spend more than $12,000.00 PER CHILD on minority (illegal alien) and welfare-student aid/after school programs/free meals/tutoring and special language programs!)
Many (not all) illegal aliens receive the equal of $36,000.00 in benefits per family.
That’s the deflated lefty think-tank number that even they didn’t want to see the light of day. As you and many others have pointed out, it is much higher.
Having read the report, it suffers from two major flaws:
1. It conflates illegal immigrants with legal immigrants, so the effect is averaged out. It may be $1,600 per immigrant, but much more for the illegal immigrant, who tend to have less income, paying less taxes, and claim more benefits (free school, welfare payments. Apparently, that failure to break out the illegal immigrants was intentional.
2. It accepts the Pew number of 11 million illegal aliens, which has been used for over 10 years. Imagine if the number was 25 million ( a more likely figure).
Everything else in the report might be true, but is useless in the debate on the cost of ILLEGAL immigration.
must have transposed numbers I saw posted yesterday: $61,000
today’s present value per immigrant quoted was $261,000.00
BS! on the original figure. A new generation every year at least 3 or 6 times, compounded every 16 years, for dtarters.
Counting all hidden welfare pushed on them*, I would not be surprised with anything less than $25,000 per individual per year, for starters.
*I would not even attempt to list them all. In the hundreds of "programs," not counting the programs' parasite administrators
ONLY $500 billion?
I think they’re low-balling it a bit, I mean, using ‘optimistic’ calculations.
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