Raylan Wolfe wrote:
Well that's not FAIR and neither is Fair!
Americas Immigration Council
http://www.immigrationpolicy.org/just-facts/statistical-hot-air-fair%E2%80%99s-usa-report-lacks-credibilityFAIR's Report is deeply distorted yet right wing propaganda sites have jumped on their bandwagon! The report relies upon flawed and empirically baseless assumptions to inflate its estimates of the costs, immigrant cost the government. What Fair counts as the cost of unauthorized immigration is actually the cost of education and healthcare for US citizen children. In fact over half of Fair's cost estimate consists of educational and healthcare expenditures for the children of unauthorized immigrants, of whom nearly three quarters are Native born US citizens!
And it gets worse!
Fair inflates the cost which unauthorized immigrants impose on Federal, State and Local governments!
More than half of Fairs cost estimates consists of healthcare and education for children-nearly three quarters of whom are Native Born US citizens!
Fair neglects to mention the cost of removing unauthorized immigrants from the country!
These are the facts, Fair is a far right wing propaganda site!
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http://amac.us/illegal-immigration-cost-1/Unlawful immigration and amnesty for current unlawful immigrants can pose large fiscal costs for U.S. taxpayers. Government provides four types of benefits and services that are relevant to this issue:
Direct benefits. These include Social Security, Medicare, unemployment insurance, and workers’ compensation.
Means-tested welfare benefits. There are over 80 of these programs which, at a cost of nearly $900 billion per year, provide cash, food, housing, medical, and other services to roughly 100 million low-income Americans. Major programs include Medicaid, food stamps, the refundable Earned Income Tax Credit, public housing, Supplemental Security Income, and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.
Public education. At a cost of $12,300 per pupil per year, these services are largely free or heavily subsidized for low-income parents.
Population-based services. Police, fire, highways, parks, and similar services, as the National Academy of Sciences determined in its study of the fiscal costs of immigration, generally have to expand as new immigrants enter a community; someone has to bear the cost of that expansion.
The cost of these governmental services is far larger than many people imagine. For example, in 2010, the average U.S. household received $31,584 in government benefits and services in these four categories.<snip> More to read I just stopped here...