alt Hacker NewsMost countries don't extend citizenship to illegals. No driver license, no housing, no benefits. They are irrelevant to the statistics- it would be like counting squirrels.
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Lalo-ATX • yesterday at 10:54 PM
Undocumented residents are pretty different from squirrels. They participate in the economy pretty similarly to documented residents. Consumption, transportation, jobs, housing, etc, and all the related taxation and resource utilization.
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>They are irrelevant to the statistics
"Wow, why are the roads wearing out twice as fast as we expect?!"