Deporting Longstanding Undocumented Immigrants Would Cost U.S. Billions

AleiaTheEnchanted · 11:37 AM

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Right-wing media figures have repeatedly championed mass deportation as a policy worth pursuing to curb illegal immigration, even though such a policy has been criticized as untenable. Moreover, as studies show, an enforcement-only policy would result in substantial economic costs.

A 2010 study by the Center for American Progress (CAP) estimated that the United States would need to spend at least $285 billion over five years to deport all 11 million undocumented immigrants currently in the country. That figure includes the cost of apprehending immigrants, detaining them for an average of 30 days, legally processing them, and transporting them back to their birth countries.

The American Immigration Council went even further, estimating how many billions of dollars in revenue certain states would lose in economic activity if all undocumented residents were deported. California, the state with the largest population of undocumented immigrants, would lose an extraordinary $301.6 billion.

Basically, if they plan to deport us U.S will go bankrupt. In this website, it also shows how much money immigrants either lawful/unlawful contributes to the U.S. economy.

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A report by the Institute of Taxation and Economic Policy found that in 2010, undocumented immigrants collectively paid an estimated $10.6 billion in state and local taxes.

A Harvard University study found that undocumented immigrants were responsible for keeping the Medicare health care program solvent, adding about $14 billion a year -- even as native-born Americans accounted for a $31 billion deficit to the program. Undocumented immigrants contributed $115.2 billion more to the trust fund than they withdrew.]

Yes, these politicians, ahem-Republicans I mean, needs to realize that we contribute to the US economy. We basically pay for the Medicaid that the US born Citizens use. We do our share, why can't they grant us this one thing that we want the most? They talk about deportations, yet we are the ones that do most of the contribution. Fairness seems to be not in their vocabulary.

To read more about thi, visit
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/04...igrants/198845

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Deporting Longstanding Undocumented Immigrants Would Cost U.S. Billions