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Immigration reform would raise wages, increase consumption, create jobs and generate more tax revenue?
So why do Republicans push against it now that Obama's in office? They were totally on-board with Mitt Romney's plan.
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/07/immigra...
Legalizing unauthorized immigrants would help economy, study says
Washington (CNN) -- Legalization of the more than 11 million unauthorized immigrants in the United States would raise wages, increase consumption, create jobs and generate more tax revenue, two policy institutes say in a joint report Thursday.
The report by the Center for American Progress and the American Immigration Council estimates that "comprehensive immigration reform that legalizes currently unauthorized immigrants and creates flexible legal limits on future immigration" would yield at least $1.5 trillion in added U.S. gross domestic product over a 10-year period.
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- Anonymous8 years agoFavorite Answer
They don't want Obama changing anything without them saying he can. They think they won.
- ?Lv 58 years ago
Center for American Progress and the American Immigration Council are both democrat funded studies. You have to take this with a HUGE grain of salt. If I posted a study done by FOX News what would your reaction be too it?
- Anonymous8 years ago
and they lived happily ever after--is how you forgot to end that fairy tale.
They are here already--how precisely will that increase consumption
If they become eligble for goverment benefits--that will decrease revenue
Other policy recommendations from this group was unemployment is great stimulus.
We've already seen how well that works out.
BTW--that would be 150 billon increase a year--which is a drop in the bucket--you guys like to stretch it out over long periods of time so the number looks good
You want to generate revenue--JOBS JOBS JOBS--but the moron in chief is one of the most anti job presidents in history.
- Texas PatriotLv 78 years ago
The only thing it will do is raise wages for the illegals, create jobs for the illegals and it might raise the tax revenue but it could also do the aopposite when you add millions to the welfare rolls and Obamacare.
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- Anonymous8 years ago
Ya ya, that's what you sleazy retards said about free trade.
After 20 years of the giant sucking sound of jobs leaving the country, Democrats have done nothing to end NAFTA.
Now you want to create more of the same thing?
- Larry ELv 78 years ago
As long as we are at it lets lets open the doors on all the jails and prisons and reward all the criminals in this country by letting them go free. Hell who cares about the laws when they only apply to the American people. How are they going to secure our borders when they have been trying it for years? What about all the others that are going to sneak in, are we going to welcome them with open arms also because you know dammed well there will be millions more coming.
- Anonymous8 years ago
In other words, two liberal groups come out and say we need immigration reform to accomodate illegals.
- CaptainLv 68 years ago
Peggy is be thinking is because it would be meaning looking other way at peoples who broke law.
Peggy no thinking any benefits be mattering if we no respect Amerikan laws.
- Anonymous8 years ago
Or will it qualify millions of illegal aliens for public subsidies that they currently do not ?