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tech_kenlast Monday at 5:19 PM1 replyview on HN

You'll spend way more tax money to haul them across the border than you would to just print them a permit to live and work in the community they've been contributing to for years. Every study ever conducted on the issue has concluded that undocumented immigrants contribute far more to the economy than they consume in public welfare dollars. You've let the actual tax dollar parasites pawn the blame on a scapegoat because you're addicted to being angry.


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15155last Monday at 5:32 PM

> You'll spend way more tax money to haul them across the border than you would to just print them a permit to live and work in the community they've been contributing to for years

At the expense of legal immigrants who bothered to do it the right way.

Law enforcement isn't free, unfortunately.

> Every study ever conducted on the issue has concluded that undocumented immigrants contribute far more to the economy than they consume in public welfare dollars

Some of these studies exist for legal immigrants, cite the one making this case for illegals?

Do these "studies" account for second-order effects on housing, local job markets, etc.?

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