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Kurt Eichenwald @kurteichenwald
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1. The numbers on illegal immigration tweeted by Trumpers - or bots - is unreal.

Reality:
A. Total illegals in US: 11.4 mill
B. Of those, 7.5 million have been here ten years or more.
C. Percent who are mexican: 52%.
D. Illegal crossings drop every year since 2003.
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E. Crime rate per capita of Mexican immigrants: 0.7%, vast majority from immigration violation. (Of native born Americans, 2.1%.)
F. Social Security counts illegals as paying $7 bill in assessing SS trust fund finances. (Because THEY PAY TAXES.)
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G. State gov estimations of state/local taxes paid by illegal immigrants: Texas, $400 mill. Georgia: $250 mill. Calif: $300 mill etc. etc.
H. Cost? Texas estimates illegals added $17.7 bill to gross state product, contributing $424 million MORE than cost of gov services.
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I. Also, because more people means more economic activity, and more economic activity means more jobs, getting illegal imm out would cause employment in Texas to drop 2.3%. Arizona would lose 140,000 jobs.
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J. Conservative policy group study shows, because they would no longer be buying stuff, deporting all illegal imms would cause a loss of 11 million jobs. Study says:
"“As a result, 20 years from now the economy would be nearly 6 percent or $1.6 trillion smaller than it....
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...“would be if the government did not remove all undocumented immigrants.”

Bottom line: People who scream about illegal immig = you willing to bear consequences? Higher taxes, smaller economy, loss of jobs, higher food prices, fruit dying on vine?

Learn. Then decide.
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And for those who want to know where all these numbers come from - it is from this article I wrote in 2015. All sources there. newsweek.com/2015/10/23/myt…
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