03-09-2020, 03:54 PM
(03-09-2020, 03:16 PM)Dill Wrote: Suppose your guesstimate is right and undocumented immigrants cost 137B per year.
What would be the "savings" to taxpayers if they were deported?
Or if they were simply cut off from all services, like public schools and emergency room treatment and left dangling?
Do you think state and federal government would just pocket your 137B for a net saving to taxpayers--extra money to finally start building the wall?
Or might other costs appear to negate those "savings"?
Well, not costs necessarily, but there an approximately $8 trillion loss to our GDP over 14 years were undocumented immigrants deported. That's about $571.4 billion per year during the time.
Source: https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/gdp
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