Fact Check Team: Millions of migrants voluntarily leave US

Valletta · Thursday at 9:50 AM

"Research from the Center for Immigration Studies estimates that each illegal immigrant generates an average lifetime net fiscal cost of $68,000, calculated as the difference between public services received and taxes paid. Multiply that by 1.6 million, and the long-term cost of supporting these migrants would be roughly $109 billion.
Put simply, spending $1,000 per person upfront is a tiny fraction—about 1.5%—of what it might cost to support them over a lifetime." SEE VIDEO

Fact Check Team: Millions of migrants voluntarily leave US

President Donald Trump has been in office for just over seven months, and according to the Department of Homeland Security, 1.6 million illegal immigrants.

komonews.com

This is a great start.

NxNW · Thursday at 10:08 AM

Valletta said:
"Research from the Center for Immigration Studies estimates that each illegal immigrant generates an average lifetime net fiscal cost of $68,000, calculated as the difference between public services received and taxes paid. Multiply that by 1.6 million, and the long-term cost of supporting these migrants would be roughly $109 billion.
Put simply, spending $1,000 per person upfront is a tiny fraction—about 1.5%—of what it might cost to support them over a lifetime."

This is a great start.

How are they climbing over Trump's wall to get out, since painting it black is supposed to make it impossible to climb over?

Oompa Loompa · Thursday at 11:31 AM

NxNW said:
How are they climbing over Trump's wall to get out, since painting it black is supposed to make it impossible to climb over?

Last I checked, there were zero border crossings.

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Say it aint so · Thursday at 11:48 AM

Valletta said:
"Research from the Center for Immigration Studies estimates that each illegal immigrant generates an average lifetime net fiscal cost of $68,000, calculated as the difference between public services received and taxes paid. Multiply that by 1.6 million, and the long-term cost of supporting these migrants would be roughly $109 billion.
Put simply, spending $1,000 per person upfront is a tiny fraction—about 1.5%—of what it might cost to support them over a lifetime." SEE VIDEO

Fact Check Team: Millions of migrants voluntarily leave US

President Donald Trump has been in office for just over seven months, and according to the Department of Homeland Security, 1.6 million illegal immigrants.

komonews.com

This is a great start.

I stopped right here: "Research from the Center for Immigration Studies"

The Center for Immigration Studies has been criticized for publishing a number of reports deemed to be false or misleading and using poor methodology by scholars on immigration, such as the authors of the National Academies of Sciences 2016 report on immigration; by think tanks such as the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the Cato Institute,[63] Urban Institute [64] and Center for American Progress; fact-checkers such as FactCheck.Org,[29] PolitiFact,[65] Washington Post,[31] Snopes [66] and NBC News;[65] and by other immigration-research organizations (such as Migration Policy Institute and the Immigration Policy Center).[67]

I mean just a remedial reading of the OP's blurb leads one to ask. Ok, what about the effect on the American economy in generated revenue if those workers, and the multiplier effect those workers have an whole lot of industries in America?

Undocumented immigrants will boost economy, lower deficit, CBO says

CBO estimates the net effect of taxes paid minus benefits allotted will reduce the deficit by $611 billion between 2024 and 2034, and the collateral economic effects of undocumented and paroled immigrants will reduce the deficit by $285 billion over that time period.

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Fact Check Team: Millions of migrants voluntarily leave US

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