Posted on 04/18/2015 8:24:25 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The 11.4 million undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. provide billions of dollars for local, state and federal taxes, based on a new study.
And according to a nonprofit organization, tax contributions by undocumented immigrants would increase if immigration reform policies were approved.
The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization about tax policy issues, found that if all 11.4 million undocumented immigrants received lawful permanent residency in the U.S., then state and local tax contributions would increase by approximately $2.2 billion per year. Based on 2012 data, ITEP stated undocumented immigrants have already contributed "significantly" to local and state taxes by providing an estimated $11.4 billion.
With President Barack Obama's 2012 and 2014 immigration executive actions, which together would allow nearly 5.2 million eligible undocumented immigrants a temporary stay in the country, $845 million in state and local taxes would accumulate from the deferred action recipients--alone--per year.
The ITEP's April report titled "Undocumented Immigrants' State and Local Tax Contributions," authored by Matthew Gardner, Sebastian Johnson and Meg Wiehe, states that many undocumented immigrants have filed income tax returns through the Individual Tax Identification Numbers (ITINs), while others -- who do not file their taxes -- still have taxes deducted from their paychecks.
If the executive actions were to be fully implemented, 45 percent of the total undocumented immigrant population in the U.S. would be eligible for either deferred action programs.
"The numbers alone make a compelling case for reform," said Gardner, executive director of ITEP. "This analysis shows that undocumented immigrants already are paying billions in taxes to state and local governments, and if they are allowed to work in the country legally, their state and local tax contributions would considerably increase."
Obama's 2012 executive action created the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), while his 2014 executive actions expanded DACA and established the Deferred Action for Parental Accountability (DAPA). Following Obama's executive action announcement, 26 U.S. states formed a coalition to block implementation of the new DACA and DAPA. The 26 states believe Obama overreached his executive privileges and the deferred action programs would negatively affect their respective economies.
A U.S. district court judge in Texas would agree with the plaintiffs and temporarily blocked the deferred action programs on Feb. 16. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) have filed an appeal and a hearing is set for April 17 to lift the temporary injunction.
As Latin Post reported, immigrant rights advocates have traveled for the April 17 Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals hearing in hopes the temporary injunction would be rejected. The Justice Department said the district court judge -- Andrew Hanen -- violated other states who have supported the deferred action programs. The department is seeking for the temporary injunction to be reversed, or at least to maintain the temporary injunction for the 26 states participating in the lawsuit.
ITEP's report comes as the White House Task Force released a strategic action plan to improve immigrant and refugee integration in local U.S. communities. The task force report, titled, "Strengthening Communities By Welcoming All Residents: A Federal Strategic Action Plan on Immigrant and Refugee Integration," includes details from numerous U.S. federal departments and agencies with goals and recommendations on strengthening or creating new pathways to naturalization while promoting civic engagement.
And it adds a tremendous financial burden on public schools. The losers there will be our children, as they will lower educational standards to cater to the illegals.
And it will only cost us 25 billion for welfare, healthcare, schools, jails, prisons...well, you get the picture. Sounds like we Americans will get the sh*t end of the stick again.
So could American Citizens who belong in America, if those jobs were available!
Imagine then, how much they could benefit their corrupt, crime-ridden, disease infested sh!tehole of a country by going home and fixing the problems there.
Do the math. They cost us NET billions and billions.
LOL And they cost us taxpayers $130 Billion per year.
Sadly they cost what a couple hundred billion a year in welfare, heathcare, education, incarceration etc?
So they might contribute chump change but cost us trillions in the long run.
A stinkin drop in the bucket from how much they siphon!
there’s about 30m illegals in the country, by the last estimate
$2.2 BILLION would mean they will ‘contribute’ $75 total. each.
that’s it.
meanwhile, they will be using the welfare and entitlement systems receiving in excess of $500/mon, minimum. that’s a cost of roughly $180 BILLION
So, a whole $200 per year, per Illegal.
Americans ‘contribute’ at least $2000 per person, per year, and governments need virtually every penny of that, just to meet what the voters demand (and pay pensions).
Even their attempts to show that Illegals are good are PATHETIC.
Doesn’t even cover what they cost California alone in 2004. Lol
http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/immigrationnaturalizatio/a/caillegals.htm
How much drain on social services, unpaid hospital bills, education bills etc.. ?
In a Pigs A**!!!
Google ITEP and Soros. They are not non-partisan. Soros funded? Yahoo had this study as top headline. I’m sure this study will be all over the media and prefreced as non-partisan. Just like any study done by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
That’s <$200 a year per immigrant local services would be more than that. Obamacare subsidies would eat that in a week.
Cost-benefit studies usually include costs, as well as purported benefits.
But not here, even where they attempt to rationalize illegality.
Simply saying you are nonpartisan does not make it so. Additionally, being nonprofit means a lot of things - it doesn't automatically mean you are unbiased. A little searching on the web will reveal there are liberal aspects to a lot of their 'works'.
As for this piece of work, their "study," it relies a lot on "estimates". My name for "estimates" in a lot of cases is that I call them PDOOMAs (Pulled Directly Out Of My A$$").
Illegals pay some taxes - mainly those which they cannot minimize by maxing out dependents (for income taxes on state and federal taxable income, for example). They, if they have a fake SSN, also have to pay FICA - INSURANCE contributions to Medicare and Social Security - these are inescapable for everyone. They are still largely unwilling to pay any taxes if they can help it.
For the $2 whatever billion they end up getting cornered into paying, even the cost of educating their litters exceeds that. Add the cost of delivering the litters at the local county hospital, the emergency room visits and all that, the $2 whatever billion is far outstripped. This "study" is horse sh!t liberal propaganda, frankly. I won't even get into the social, criminal and national sovereignty impacts they inflict. Just more liberal trash under the guise of responsible scholarship.
I’m sure it did. Unfortunately, the critical thinking skills in this country are so poor, that many will suck up this information without taking that into account. in other words: it was written for Democratic base.
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