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    Senior Member JohnDoe2's Avatar
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    Amnesty Costs 70 Times More Than Enforcement

    Amnesty Costs 70 Times More Than Enforcement

    The cost of amnesty: $999 billion.
    The cost of attrition by enforcement: as little as $14 billion.
    Amnesty would cost up to 70 times as much as enforcing existing law.

    $999 billion cost of Amnesty (Mass Legalization)

    Source: The Heritage Foundation
    Summary: The Heritage Foundation issued two studies in 2007 pointing out that the big problem with mass legalization is that (a) most illegal aliens are low-skilled and therefore do not earn enough money to pay enough taxes to cover the government benefits they receive; and (b), amnesty would eventually make them eligible for the full array of welfare and medical benefits offered by local, state and federal governments. They found the cost of allowing illegal aliens to remain in the United States, and eventually to become citizens, would be $3.7 trillion through the year 2056. That works out to a present cost of $1 trillion, at a 5 percent discount rate. In other words, immediately upon passage of an amnesty bill, the United States government would need to put $1 trillion into an investment earning 5 percent per year if it were honest about paying for the costs of amnesty.


    $14 billion cost of attrition through enforcement option #1.

    Source: Congressional Budget office Estimate for H.R. 4437.
    Summary: This option is the bill H.R. 4437 sponsored by Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner that passed the House of Representatives in 2005. This bill would have been so effective in combating illegal immigration that some 1 million illegal aliens marched in cities around the United States on May 1, 2006 to protest it. The Congressional Budget Office estimated the bill would cost $1.9 billion over the 5 years 2006-2010, which we extrapolate out to the year 2056 using a linear model to account for cost increases. Then we use a discount rate of 5 percent to bring the future costs back to a single present cost figure. The resulting cost was actually $13.5 billion, which we round up to $14 billion to facilitate comparison to the other cost figures.


    $177 billion cost of attrition through enforcement option #2.

    Source: Congressional Budget Office Estimate for H.R. 4088.
    Summary: This option is the SAVE Act (Secure America Through Verification and Enforcement Act) that was introduced in the House of Representatives in 2007. This is a strong attrition through enforcement bill. The Congressional Budget Office estimated the bill would cost $40.7 billion over the 10 years 2009-2018, which we extrapolate out to the year 2056 using a linear model to account for cost increases. Then we use a discount rate of 5 percent to bring the future costs back to a single present cost figure.


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    Amnesty Would Have a Present Cost of $1 Trillion

    In 2007, the Heritage Foundation issued two studies, one on the cost of low-skilled immigration and one on the cost of amnesty. The study on the cost of low-skilled immigration noted that low-skilled immigrants do work hard: “It is important to note, these families are rarely idle; they consistently work and pay taxes. However, the taxes they pay are seldom, if ever, sufficient to cover the cost of the government benefits they receive. In consequence, these households must be continually subsidized by other taxpayers.â€
    NO AMNESTY

    Don't reward the criminal actions of millions of illegal aliens by giving them citizenship.


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    This attrition through workplace enforcement would be great; however what is proposed regarding attrition of the millions of illegals here not in the workforce; the illegal alien moms and their "American citizen" children? Most of the men working here have their taxpayer benefit collecting wives/girlfriends living here with them.
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    I hope those of you out there who visit and read this site pay attention to the total cost to TAXPAYERS for Amnesty to Illegal Immigrants !! 999 BILLION DOLLARS

    We must defeat this Amnesty bill as there is no way in hell we can afford another taxpayer hit like this or we can kiss the USA goodbye and our beloved country will fall just like Rome did for some of the same reasons.

    Give amnesty to this unknown millions of IA's and even more will show up waiting for the next amnesty.

    NEWS FLASH there are BILLIONS of poor people,a never ending amount,who will continue to sneak into our country until our country is no more.
    "A Government big enough to give you everything you want,is strong enough to take everything you have"* Thomas Jefferson

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