Effects of Immigrtions.

watermitigation

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The public schools are one way that illegal immigration effect on economy is awful. Educating illegal aliens is costing Americans millions of dollars each year and is putting the public school system in crises. With just legal American parents placing their children is school; the school system would be fine because they all pay their taxes which helps support the school. But more and more illegal aliens are pouring into the country, placing their children in school, and not paying any taxes. This causes the enrollment to up as requiring more money to maintain and yet the tax money that pays for the education stays the same.

As more and more illegal aliens flood the US borders, the US taxpayer's costs are rising just so we can support them living here illegally. Illegal immigration effect on the economy is saddening. Our education system is failing just to make room for the illegal aliens children. Many jobs are being taken away from US citizens, making the unemployment rates go up. They receive free health care that is causing many emergency rooms to go bankrupt. Illegal aliens are coming to the United States to have their children so they can get a free ride while the tax payers foot their bill.
 
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i'm sure there is a group of people somewhere that thank you for spreading the lie at the beginning of this thread, but that kind of racist propaganda is simply false.


MYTH: "Immigrants Don't Pay Taxes"
THE FACTS:

On average, undocumented immigrants contribute more in taxes than they consume in public benefits, and are estimated to have contributed nearly $50 billion in federal taxes between 1996 and 2003.4 They also contribute between $7-8 billion in social security funds annually--that's $100 billion in the past 15 years that they will never claim.

By legalizing the undocumented workforce, we will bring these workers out of the underground economy and increase social security and federal tax revenue. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that if the 2007 immigration reform bill had passed, legalizing 12 million undocumented immigrants, it would have generated $48 billion in new federal revenue through 2008-2017.5 Likewise, legalizing immigrants will contribute significantly to the social security system since immigrants tend to be younger than the native-born.


MYTH: "Immigrants are freeloaders who drain federal and state coffers"
THE FACTS:

Study after study shows that undocumented immigrants contribute more to the economy than they take. Despite the myths, undocumented immigrants are not eligible for most public services--like food stamps, Medicare and Medicaid.

According to the Texas Comptroller, eliminating Texas' undocumented population in 2005 would have generated a 2.1 percent decline in the gross state product, a 2.3 percent decline in employment and a 2.6 percent decline in personal income.6

America's prosperity has long depended on the hard work, commitment and entrepreneurial spirit of immigrant workers. Just as they have done for centuries, immigrants fuel the U.S. economy and create more opportunities for native-born workers. In fact immigrant buying power continues to surge: in 2008, Latino buying power totalled $951 billion and Asian buying power totalled $509.1 billion.

http://www.seiu.org/a/immigration/they-take-our-jobs-debunking-immigration-myths.php
 
Immigrants Take Jobs Away from Americans — FALSE

A recent study produced by the Pew Hispanic Center reveals that “Rapid increases in the foreign-born population at the state level are not associated with negative effects on the employment of native-born workers.” In fact, given that the number of native born low wage earners is falling nationally, immigrants are playing an important role in offsetting that decline. The Urban Institute reports that between 2000 and 2005 the total number of low wage workers declined by approximately 1.8 million while the number of unskilled immigrant workers increased by 620,000, thus offsetting the total decline by about a third.

(Source: The Urban Institute, “Trends in the Low-Wage Immigrant Labor Force, 2000-2005,” March, 2007, http://www.urban.org/publications/411426.html; Rakesh Kochhar, “Growth in the Foreign Born Workforce and Employment of the Native Born,” Pew Hispanic Center, August 10, 2006, http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.phpReportID=69)


Immigrants are a drain on the United States Economy — FALSE

The immigrant community is not a drain on the U.S. economy but, in fact, proves to be a net benefit. Research reported by both the CATO Institute and the President’s Council of Economic Advisors reveals that the average immigrant pays a net 80,000 dollars more in taxes than they collect in government services. For immigrants with college degrees the net fiscal return is $198,000. Furthermore, The American Farm Bureau asserts that without guest workers the U.S. economy would lose as much as $9 billion a year in agricultural production and 20 percent of current production would go overseas.

(Source: CATO Institute, CATO Handbook for Congress: Policy Recommendations for the 108th Congress, http://www.cato.org/pubs/handbook/hb108/hb108-63.pdf; Executive Office of the President: Council of Economic Advisors, “Immigration’s Economic Impact,” June 20, 2007, http://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/cea_immigration_062007.html; Derrick Z. Jackson, “Undocumented Workers Contribute Plenty, The Boston Globe, April 12, 2006, http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/04/12/
undocumented_workers_contribute_plenty/)


Undocumented immigrants are a Burden on the Healthcare System — FALSE

Federal, state and local governments spend approximately 1.1 billion dollars annually on healthcare costs for undocumented immigrants, aged 18-64, or approximately $11 in taxes for each U.S. household. This compares to 88 billion dollars spent on all health care for non-elderly adults in the U.S. in 2000. Foreign born individuals tend to use fewer health care services because they are relatively healthier than their native born counterparts. For example, in Los Angeles County, “total medical spending on undocumented immigrants was $887 million in 2000 – 6 percent of total costs, although undocumented immigrants comprise 12 percent of the region's residents.”

(Source: The Rand Corporation, “RAND Study Shows Relatively Little Public Money Spent Providing Healthcare to Undocumented Immigrants,” November 14, 2006, http://www.rand.org/news/press.06/11.14.html; Dana P. Goldman, James P. Smith and Neeraj Sood, “Immigrants and the Cost of Medical Care,” Health Affairs 25, no. 6 (2006): 1700-1711)


http://www.justiceforimmigrants.org/myths.shtml
 
Myth #4: Immigrants hurt our country financially by taking jobs and services without
paying taxes.
The Facts: Though many people fear that immigrants are taking job opportunities away from
natives, immigrants actually help to create new jobs. States with large numbers of immigrants report
lower unemployment for everyone. Immigrants are more likely to be self-employed and start new
businesses. 18% of small businesses, which provide up to 80% of the new jobs in the U.S. each year,
are started by immigrants. Though an increase in immigrant workers sometimes drives down wages
for working class people, immigrants help to lift wages for workers as a whole in the U.S.
Immigrants pay between $90 and $140 billion each year in taxes. More than half of all
undocumented immigrants are believed to be working on the books, which means that they pay
taxes on their salaries; and all people contribute by paying sales taxes on goods that they buy and
property taxes on the homes they rent.
Studies show that immigrants pay $20 to $30 billion more in taxes each year than the amount of
government services they use. While the cost of educating the children of immigrants may be high,
many immigrants do not benefit from other support that citizens receive, such as food stamps and
social security payments. In addition, immigrants are less likely to use services that may be open to
them, such as health care. Overall, immigrants contribute more to the U.S. economy than they take.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=15&ved=0CFkQFjAEOAo&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.adl.org%2Feducation%2Fcurriculum_connections%2Fspring_2009%2Fsupplements%2FMyths_and_Facts.pdf&ei=I1llT-GgAeq00AHk1rTJCA&usg=AFQjCNE9v_H5LIH-Ch2b8S-FQNda3jC0nA&sig2=F3Uq8G20LyA6ULpnpidL-g
 
regarding alabama for example:

one myth is that illegal immigrants don't pay taxes when they pay billions of dollars of taxes every year, and usually for benefits they will never receive.

Like everybody else, they pay sales taxes and property taxes, even if they rent. According to the report, more than half of undocumented immigrants provide their employers with counterfeit IDs, so federal and state income taxes, and Social Security and Medicare taxes are automatically deducted from their paychecks. But they are not eligible for any state or federal benefits.

And the report goes on to say that illegal immigrants provide "an enormous subsidy to the Social Security system in particular." Social Security taxes are withheld from billions in wages earned by workers whose names and Social Security numbers don't match the government's records. The Social Security Administration says "a major portion" of this money is earned by undocumented workers using fake documents. By October 2009, taxes had been paid on $836 billion in such wages.

Welfare costs? Illegal aliens are not eligible for public benefits such as Social Security, Supplemental Security Income, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Medicaid, Medicare and food stamps. "Even most legal immigrants," says the pamphlet, "cannot receive these benefits until they have been in the United Sates for five years or longer, regardless of how much they have worked or paid in taxes."

According to the chamber report, a number of state studies shows that, on average, "immigrants pay more in taxes than they receive in government services and benefits." According to the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy, households headed by undocumented immigrants across the nation paid $11.2 billion in state and local taxes in 2010.

Regardless of the needlessly harsh provisions of the immigration law that have brought the state widespread criticism, some lawmakers, including at least 12 Republican senators, say they support the law pretty much as it was written.

http://blog.al.com/times-views/2011/12/editorial_those_immigration_my.html
 
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