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....
...“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.
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…