“The new administration has a lot to do. Getting rid of a few million illegals - a massive drain on the US in a multitude of ways - is a good start.”
A “few” million? Deporting a few million illegals won’t make a dent in the effects these people are causing to our economy.
There are likely upwards of 40 million of them living and working here. We need to remove tens of millions of them from the work force and the welfare rolls before we feel a difference.
I think that if DJT's administration just cuts off benefits and puts some teeth in the existing laws, many of the illegals will self-deport, and quickly. That, in combination with building a wall to keep more from coming in, hopefully will leave American with a problem of a manageable size.
For every $1000 in benefits that those 40 million illegals get, that's 40 *Billion* tax dollars collected from American citizens, but not being returned to American Citizens. A Billion dollars is an unimaginable amount of money, 40 (or 80, or 120) even more so.
And those are hard costs. More difficult to put a dollar figure on the drain for education, law enforcement, medical and hospital, and on, and on. Just the added costs of uninsured motorist car insurance - particularly in CA - must be immense.
I think that fixing this problem will have a massive, positive effect on the economy, but it might take awhile to see.