https://nationalfile.com/flashback-...chinese-coronavirus-travel-ban-as-xenophobia/You mean like when he closed the border to China and got called a racists for by the 'Open Border' Dim-Moe-Rats???
Note: An 'Open Border' = No Border = No Country, just lawless chaos.
The same Dim-Moe-Rats that cost taxpayers 300+ BILLION a year paying for the support of an illegal invading army, but think that 5 Billion for a wall to control our Southern border is a Republican ripoff???
Didn't help, I'm sure. A friend of mine is an X-Ray tech in an Ocala hospital and said a guy flew in from New York last week and then came to the hospital complaining of Covid-19 symptoms, then got mad that the staff asked him a bunch of "personal" questions. My wife & I were driving home from a graveside funeral last Saturday and on I-75 near Lake City we passed a car with New York plates crammed to the roof with luggage. Being one of the top tourist destinations in the world, even with places shut down, it's no wonder Florida is getting it's share of this virus. But many of the rural counties have no reported cases.
You mean like when he closed the border to China and got called a racists for by the 'Open Border' Dim-Moe-Rats???
Note: An 'Open Border' = No Border = No Country, just lawless chaos.
The same Dim-Moe-Rats that cost taxpayers 300+ BILLION a year paying for the support of an illegal invading army, but think that 5 Billion for a wall to control our Southern border is a Republican ripoff???
You mean like when he closed the border to China and got called a racists for by the 'Open Border' Dim-Moe-Rats???
Note: An 'Open Border' = No Border = No Country, just lawless chaos.
The same Dim-Moe-Rats that cost taxpayers 300+ BILLION a year paying for the support of an illegal invading army, but think that 5 Billion for a wall to control our Southern border is a Republican ripoff???
He might be right on the number...12-20 illegals and almost none pay taxes except a sales tax and yes lots get social security, Medicare, Medicaid and other social benefits that they don't pay into. These are facts and Regan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama have let this happen...oh also the talking heads in both parties that haven't done a damn thing about this for 50 years.
President Trump claimed illegal immigrants cost taxpayers $300 billion per year at one point. That number may have come from a 2016 report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. According to a Washington Times article on that report, “Immigration drains the government, sapping as much as $296 billion a year from federal, state and local taxpayers while depressing wages, at least in the short run.” The last comprehensive study I found says the number is closer to $116 billion, but that was in 2017. Here's a link to an article about that, which links to the study itself. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...l-immigration-average-8-075-each-25-000-in-ny
Actually this is not completely accurate. Thousands of undocumented immigrants do indeed receive SS payments. They do so by using stolen or borrowed numbers. In same cases fake numbers are generated and not captured by the administration. Also undocumented immigrants are eligible for SSI benefits which is administered by SS department but funded differently. I live in DC and my sister in law is a very high ranking official in the admin. On a flip side, what is difficult to calculate is how much do they actually contribute in terms of taxes. The question becomes are they pulling more out of the system vs what they are putting in. My sis in law says they have tried to determine that number but very difficult to do. We have a very simple answer here. Let's just make the road to citizenship faster. The overwhelming majority of undocumented immigrants are hard working good people. We just need to keep out the less desirable criminals. We have plenty of those on our own.
I'm not sure about granting citizenship to however many millions of people who ILLEGALLY came here. But I agree that many have taken advantage of a broken system to access ALL systems that should be for American citizens only. My 88 year old mother's identity was stolen and sold to an illegal in California, who filed a state income tax return out there under her name and SSN. And this was 7 years ago. She's never been West of the Mississippi River and I had to get our Congressman involved to get the state of California off her back. I was told by a governor's liaison out there that that's how illegals do it. They buy an American's identity then file something to get into the system and then apply for all the welfare benefits available. He said all the border states are overwhelmed by the abuses. I can'y imagine how worse the problem has gotten since the incident with my Mom. So it is a fact that illegals do illegally get SSN, Food Stamps, Medicare, and anything else they can get using a phony ID. It's a way of life and no one really knows how much the taxpayers are being ripped off, but it's probably more than any of the estimates given in this thread. We have a broken system that has been set up to fail and both Democrats and Republicans are responsible. The Bush Presidents and other RINO Republicans have catered to those who benefit by having illegals swarm into the country and it's incredible that we finally have a President who has tried for nearly 4 years to fix the problem and gets resistance from all quarters.
O f course it is. The California official told me 7 years ago that this is a common problem in the border states that is overwhelming the system/ And with the million more that have ILLEGALLY crossed the border since then and are undocumented, many of them are, in fact, ripping off American taxpayers by getting benefits to which they aren't entitled. You are such a clueless doofus.
The FACTS are that those who cross our borders illegally are criminals. The very act of crossing our borders illegally make them criminals, ie they have broken the laws of the United States. A country based on laws should not reward criminal behavior, which is what we have been doing for decades and many like you want to further reward them by making them citizens. They need to be sent back where they came from and told to get in line behind those who are trying to come here legally. I am all for legal immigration, as our country is a nation of immigrants. But there have to be limits and qualifications for those who come in, as we should not be further burdening our overloaded welfare systems. We have enough of our own people who need help without piling on anyone and everyone who can sneak into the country. And even when they get jobs many of them are doing so off the books, causing legitimate business to go under because they can't compete with businesses who are paying their illegal employees in cash, not paying worker's comp., not paying income tax or social security. I am very familiar with the construction, agriculture and food service industries, among many others, where companies employing illegals can and do underbid legitimate businesses operating within the law. They can't compete with those spending way less on overhead by having workers off the books or paid in cash and eventually are forced out of business. So just because many illegals have jobs and may be hardworking doesn't mean they are doing things above-board and paying into the system. Some are, some aren't. I know that for an absolute fact. That, also, is a major cost of illegal immigration. Many of those same illegals are stealing the identities of American citizens in order to get in the system and get money and other benefits to which they are not entitled. And to say those rapes of the welfare system and our general economy aren't part of the national cost of illegal immigration is just idiotic. All of those acts cost American taxpayers money. When these illegals send their kids to school, it costs taxpayers millions of dollars in extra teachers, classroom space, facilities, books, computers, food, etc. When they get sick and go to a doctor, the ER, stay in hospitals, have medical procedures, done, etc., it cost American taxpayers money. When they commit crimes that wouldn't have been committed if they weren't here, the cost of law enforcement, the judicial system, the prison system, the increased insurance costs, etc. are all added costs of illegal immigration. We should be mandating and enforcing e-verify laws and punishing employers that hire illegals and we should be taking more effort to identify and deal with every illegal in our country. This has been a major drain on our economy and a part of our increasing debt for decades. Both parties are at fault and the problem is getting worse and worse. But we either are a nation of laws or not. A country without borders isn't a country and cities and states who protect illegals, give them preferential treatment or treat them the same as American citizens are violating the law as well. There should be consequences for that. And rewarding illegal immigrants with citizenship and protecting their "right to work" just doesn't make sense. When you reward bad behavior (in this case criminal behavior), you just encourage more of it. Whether the annual cost of illegal immigration is $300 billion, $250 billion or $116 billion, it is significant and negatively impacts virtually every aspect of our society.
Because outside of talking about old sporting events this is what we have to work with lol
