"A report by the conservative CATO institute is worth reading, because it rebuts many of Trump’s lies about the contributions of immigrants to the US economy and Immigrants’ Recent Effects on Government Budgets: 1994–2023 | Cato Institute.
The executive summary notes the following:"
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#immigrants #CatoInstitute #economy #taxes
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https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/the-moment-of-truth-for-congressional
"For each year from 1994 to 2023, the US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government.
Over that period, immigrants created a cumulative fiscal surplus of $14.5 trillion in real 2024 US dollars, including $3.9 trillion in savings on interest on the debt."
"Without immigrants, US government public debt at all levels would be at least 205 percent of gross domestic product (GDP)—nearly twice its 2023 level.
These results, which do not account for any of immigration’s indirect, tax-revenue-boosting effects on economic growth, represent the lower bound of the positive fiscal effects. Even by this conservative analysis, immigrants may have already prevented a fiscal crisis."
@wdlindsy
"The truth is that ICE is so broken, so corrupt, that it must be disbanded and a new agency must be created to replace it."
What. No. Let's disband ICE and then we can talk about what is needed.
William Lindsey 
the elder sea