IMMIGRANTS LAID the foundations of America’s success as a country. About 45m people currently residing there, 14% of the population, were born overseas. About half of them have become naturalised citizens; one-quarter are lawful permanent residents with a path to citizenship; and about one-twentieth are temporary residents. The remainder, 11m or so “undocumented” immigrants that reside in the country illegally, wait in hope for a means of gaining a legitimate status.
The first, based on the US Citizenship Act of 2021, creates a path to citizenship for all 11m undocumented immigrants—about 8m of whom are in the labour market. Over the next ten years these workers would add nearly $1.5trn to America’s economy, about 0.5% of GDP. In turn this would generate tax revenues of $370bn and 370,000 jobs. The benefits could be higher still, because the bill would allow for immigration to increase.
Two other bills propose granting citizenship to 400,000 immigrants who were brought as children—known as “Dreamers”—and to over 250,000 workers that have fled natural disasters and armed conflict who are living in America under a temporary protected status. In these final two scenarios the study’s projections of the economic benefits, although positive, fall substantially, to about $110bn and $60bn, respectively, over ten years.
So people who are patiently waiting in a line for decades to legally come in should just come in illegally because crime pays
I don't care how out there it is, look at those numbers. If we acknowledge the role these people have been playing, our economy will open emp. opportunities for 8 mil., our GDP grows by $1.5 tril., our gov't programs will have 375 bil. more, and we get to recognize 375,000 jobs.
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