Saturday, April 13, 2013

Illegal Immigration

  • Immigration in total results in a gain to the American economy of $1.6 trillion. Of this gain, 97.8 percent goes to the immigrants themselves, and the remainder is the “immigration surplus” benefit to the native-born population.

  • But this “surplus” or net benefit to native-born Americans is not distributed evenly across the population: “The immigration surplus of $35 billion comes from reducing the wages of natives in competition with immigrants by an estimated $402 billion a year, while increasing profits to the users of immigrant labor by an estimated $437 billion.
Read more.. on how illegal immigration robs the poorest of Americans.

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