Jim Demint: immigration reform will cost U.S. trillion dollars

screw this jim demint dude

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics...u-s-trillions/



Former South Carolina Republican senator and current Heritage Foundation president Jim DeMint argued that implementing immigration reform as proposed by the so-called “Gang of Eight” would “cost Americans trillions of dollars,” citing a soon-to-be released update to the conservative group’s 2007 study on the impact of immigration reform.
“The study you’ll see from Heritage this week presents a staggering cost of another amnesty in our country,” DeMint said this morning on “This Week,” based on the “detrimental effects long-term” of government benefits that would eventually go to the millions offered a path to citizenship under the reform legislation currently being considered. “There’s no reason we can’t begin to fix our immigration system so that we won’t make this problem worse. But the bill that’s being presented is unfair to those who came here legally. It will cost Americans trillions of dollars. It’ll make our unlawful immigration system worse.”
A 2007 study by Robert Rector, assuming all undocumented immigrants were granted “amnesty,” said the cost to the United States of immigration reform would be at least $2.6 trillion. When asked if the new Heritage estimate would be more than $2.5 trillion, DeMint responded “much more than that.”

ABC

The 2007 study is not without its critics, such as Alex Nowrasteh of the Cato Institute, who wrote in April that the study’s “flawed methodology produced a grossly exaggerated cost to federal taxpayers of legalizing unauthorized immigrants while undercounting or discounting their positive tax and economic contributions.”
DeMint dismissed the criticisms, including estimates by the Congressional Budget Office that say immigration reform will increase economic growth.
“Well, CBO said Obamacare wouldn’t cost us anything. They’re basically puppets of the Congress and the assumptions they put in the bill. Heritage is only organization that has done an analysis on the cost,” DeMint said.
“If you consider all the factors related to the amnesty – and, believe me, this is comprehensive – that it will have a negative long-term impact on our gross domestic product,” DeMint added. “So we just want Congress, for once, to count the cost of a bill. They’re notorious for underestimating the cost and not understanding the consequences.

Former South Carolina Republican senator

lol and what kind of logic is this? if anything undocumented people are gonna contribute to the society and they will pay fines . this idiot

deporting 11 million illegals won't cost them a single cent!!!

The Heritage Foundation is very right-wing and funded by folks like the Koch Bros.

Immigration reform is common sense because of security and taxes.

lmao dont pay attention to these kind of idiots. The closer the bill gets to passing the more rabid they get. In the end, when it does pass, most of these guys will probably get a heart attack

undocumented people are already contributing to the country, they take taxes off of their paychecks and most of them cannot claim anything back.


this is absurd.. these guys are racists and don't want change.. but guess what? change is coming.

This clown is talking from his rear. This is clearly a scare tactic to awake a nonexistent bloc of Americans who could likely oppose immigration reform. Using drastic words like "trillions" and "amnesty" is just a desperate last ditch attempt at facilitating his personal racist grudge against immigrants. He doesn't give a shit about taxpayers paying "trillions" for undocumented immigrants. He just personally doesn't like them. That's all. People are scared of change. They are also scared when they see other people advancing. They get some type of satisfaction and security to see a group of people, in this case undocumented immigrants, living and struggling in the bottom of the bottom class. Hence, the opposition.

This piece of poop "study" won't have the same effect it did in 2007. This is just a scare tactic guys. Listening to the heritage for immigration insights is like reading Playboy for the articles! It doesn't make sense! The study exists only as a freak out stimulant for the right wing fringe! And nothing else!