In Reply to: Totally biased "study" on Medicaid from EPIC posted by russsmith on July 04, 2025 at 09:51:30
The right-wing immigration reform group FAIR summarized their work on the numbers they came up with this gem:
Finally, it’s important to note that FAIR includes costs incurred by the minor, U.S.-born children of illegal aliens, as these costs are fully attributable to their parent’s unlawful residence in the United States. Many mass-immigration apologists claim that this is an unfair inclusion, as the estimate does not include any long-term contributions made by these minors once they become adults. However, further research has demonstrated that the children of migrants – especially illegal aliens – no longer see significant economic improvement as was the case several decades ago. Therefore, if we did attempt to account for their future tax contributions, we would also need to account for their reliance on state and federal benefits programs. This would likely only serve to increase our cost estimates further, not drastically lower it as many open border advocates insist.
alot wrong with that but I wanna talk about one point.
children of immigrant no longer see economic improvement?
there is a whole generation of Americans that will not see economic improvement compared to their parents,
and many say millennials are the last group to be able to afford to buy a house.
but kicking the brown people out will balance the budget
I doubt FAIR is fair.
side note: When I worked for the IRS we had to throw out the term Illegal Tax Protestor. that was under the Bush administration. It's interesting to see that it is making a comeback under trump. (the theory was people aren't illegal their actions are)