Trump on 60 Minutes

[ukatheist]

Depends on the employer, but yeah, illegals account for billions in payroll taxes.  They may be shadow people, but their employers aren't, so federal and state comes out to keep the employers in the clear. As far as income tax.....they wouldn't owe any, plugging them into that system would only be plugging them into stimulus and rebates. They live in poverty.

In the time that Trump, who rails against illegals, has been -avoiding- taxes like the plague, illegals have easily contributed one or two hundred billion, USD. Maybe we should deport him?

Thanks Rhythm.

Done a bit of digging around and come across this article:

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/...ts-113-bi/

And this report:

https://www.cbo.gov/publication/41645

TLR version, illegal immigration comes at a 'modest' net cost, the largest expense being education.

My math using a mean estimate from the GAO report referred to in the article ($19bn) vs the population of the US, rounded down 300m to knock out the illegals, means a cost per 'legal' resident of less than $65 per year, the largest proportion of which goes on education.

It would cost $400 - $600 bn over 20 years to find and deport all illegal immigrants according to this article:

http://www.newfreethinkers.org/illegal_i...sheet_2015

Using the low end of this it works out to an average of over $65 per legal resident per year, actually more than it costs for the illegal immigrants to stay in the US.

Lets call it even though.

Would you rather your tax dollars were spent providing the very basic needs of illegal immigrants, or deporting them?