Dallas Morning News Okay With Illegal Immigration
Even though the issue of illegal immigration has been off the front pages for some time, the proponents of illegal immigration are still making arguments for their continued existence in this country. The Dallas Morning News has joined the crowd of those who are willing to heap scorn on everything and anyone in order to allow the immigrants to stay in this country.
Illegal immigration is draining hundreds of millions of dollars from local governments but bolstering the Texas economy by $17.7 billion a year, the state comptroller estimates in a new report.
And when it comes to taxes, illegal immigrants are a boon. They cost the state $1.16 billion in services, such as public health services and education, but they pay $1.58 billion every year in taxes and fees, according to the report, released Thursday.
That’s a net profit to the state of $420 million. (snip)
The report says the absence of the illegal immigrants would decrease the gross state product by $17.7 billion a year.
I don’t know who researched this report, but it is obviously and seriously flawed from the very beginning. The Texas Economy is not a zero sum game. The report assumes if the illegal aliens do not spend the money, no one will. This report continues the flawed assumption that illegals hold jobs no citizen living in the United States wants. This also assumes that the illegals spend all of their money here in the US. There are plenty of Americans who need work and would spend their money here in the US.
The newspaper does include some of the financial pitfalls of illegal immigrants on the local economies, but intermix it with argument that illegals are good for Texas.
But counties pay the price: They’re taking in $513 million in local taxes and revenues – but spending $1.44 billion in indigent care and law-enforcement costs. Cities and school districts suffer as well, the report said.
There is also the problem of national taxes. Many illegals are paid in cash allowing the employer to pay less and keep the immigrants off the books. Since they are paid in cash, these illegal immigrants pay no income taxes. They pay no social security, they do not have insurance, etc. They are a drain on the national and the local economies, they are a drain on law enforcement, they are a drain on hospitalization, and they are a drain on social services.
No amount of apologizing by the Dallas Morning News will change that. They had a good opportunity to set the record straight, but missed badly. The one thing they missed in this discussion is that illegal immigrants are here illegally. Therefore, they are criminals, they broke the law to be here. So any discussion about them should be done from that standpoint.
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