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01-30-2012, 02:02 PM #1
A Divide on the Payoff of Legalizing Immigrants
A Divide on the Payoff of Legalizing Immigrants
by Julián Aguila Jan.30,2012
Granting legal status to the illegal immigrants living in one of Texas’ largest metropolitan areas would generate at least $1.4 billion a year in revenue for state and federal agencies, with Social Security and Medicare being the largest potential beneficiaries, according to an analysis by a Houston business group.
The report, from the Greater Houston Partnership, says that the untapped revenue would be accessible if immigration reform — one that allowed illegal immigrants the chance to work legally and pay taxes — was realized.
Jeff Moseley, the chief executive of the 2,100-member group, said such reform makes sense in the current economy.
“The law is broken, and employers need to comply with the federal law,” said Moseley, a former Denton County judge who ran as a Republican. “But at the same time, the law needs to be business friendly, and it needs to recognize that there is a job to be done and we depend heavily on these very important workers.”
The partnership’s members pay dues ranging from $550 to $100,000. The higher dues are paid by executive partners, which include companies such as Reliant Energy, AT&T and ConocoPhillips.
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But its report has drawn criticism from advocates of a stricter immigration policy. Maria Martinez, the executive director of the Immigration Reform Coalition of Texas, accused the partnership of being little more than peddlers of economic snake oil for neglecting to account for the financial drain of providing services to illegal immigrants.
Martinez’s group has supported a ban on so-called sanctuary cities in Texas, citing the need to preserve jobs for citizens and the potential financial benefits of removing illegal immigrants from Texas.
The partnership’s revenue assessment is the result of calculating the additional contributions of the estimated 132,000 illegal immigrants in the Houston area if they and their employers had paid taxes on the estimated $7 billion in salary and wages they earned in 2008. Social Security would receive $852 million and Medicare would receive $206 million. The Department of the Treasury and the Texas Workforce Commission would receive about $336 million and $33 million respectively.
The report focuses on the Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown metropolitan area, which includes 10 counties. But Patrick Jankowski, the author of the report and the partnership’s vice president for research, said the assumptions and methodology could be applied elsewhere because he used data from public sources — like the Bureau of Labor Statistics — and the Pew Hispanic Center.
The population is an estimate from 2008 based on information from the Pew Hispanic Center, and the analysis is based on that year’s earnings.
“If my count on the amount of undocumented workers is too low, the contributions would actually be much higher,” Jankowski said.
Martinez from the Immigration Reform Coalition of Texas, said the business group had simply found a way to create a study without including all the costs.
“The finest business schools in the country train individuals, entrepreneurs, what have you, the importance of transferring costs upon an unsuspecting public,” Martinez said. “That’s what’s happening obviously here with the Greater Houston Partnership.”
Demetrios Papademetriou, the president and co-founder of the Migration Policy Institute, an independent research group in Washington, D.C., said the analysis lacked in two major areas, including that it did not account for how much illegal immigrants cost taxpayers for services. “You cannot do any accounting exercises unless you work on both sides of the ledger,” he said.
Papademetriou said the study would have also benefited from analyzing what an “equally qualified” legal resident or citizen was earning in Houston for working the same position as the illegal immigrant.
For that, stakeholders must turn to a six-year-old study conducted by Carole Keeton Strayhorn, the former state comptroller. That analysis said that if Texas went without the estimated 1.4 million illegal immigrants who lived in the state in 2005, it would have lost about $17.7 billion in gross domestic product that year.
Illegal immigrants also produced more in-state revenue, $1.58 billion, than what they cost in state services, $1.16 billion, although local governments lost about $1.44 billion in health-care and law-enforcement costs that were not reimbursed by the state, according to the study by Strayhorn.
A spokesman in the office of Susan Combs, the current comptroller, said the agency had no plans to update the study to show current figures.
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01-30-2012, 02:04 PM #2
"Heads Up! Texas!" illegals cost the state of Texas 9.4 billion dollars a year, this graph is from 05, I seriously doubt the cost has gone down!
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01-30-2012, 02:07 PM #3
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01-30-2012, 02:17 PM #4The report, from the Greater Houston Partnership, says that the untapped revenue would be accessible if immigration reform — one that allowed illegal immigrants the chance to work legally and pay taxes — was realized.
WHEN IS OBAMA GOING TO DEMAND THAT THE ILLEGALS PAY THEIR "FAIR SHARE?Last edited by Newmexican; 01-30-2012 at 02:19 PM.
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01-30-2012, 02:55 PM #5
For so many politicians, it is not about doing what is right anymore, it is about the money they thnk they see in the illegals being made legal. I firmly believe they will continue to be a drain on society no matter their legal status, in fact, it could wind up being more so. Currently many states have cracked down on illegals gaining access to state services due to pressure from citizens. Make them legal and this blockade is taken away and you have millions of people able to access something they previously did not have. Furthermore, with jobs stretched thin already, for citizens, and of course with people all over this nation out of work and many not with enough income, or none, to pay taxes on, why would politicians think availability of jobs would suddenly go up when illegals were made legal? How realistic is this thought? Where are these jobs going to come from that they expectto get more revenue out of once illegals are made legal? No, I am not buying this at all.
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