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Tuesday, February 13, 2024

The US economy will grow an additional $7 trillion over the next decade as a surge in immigration creates a larger labor force and increases demand for goods and services, according to a new estimate from the Congressional Budget Office.

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The WaPo article about this was better. But this one doesn't have a pay wall.

#1 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2024-02-13 03:47 PM | Reply

I'm still waiting for the news interview of an American who lost his job picking lettuce to an immigrant.

#2 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-02-13 05:14 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 2

Immigration has been a net plus in the billions of dollars for this country for decades now.

Sure, Sheepledip lost his job in the Rust Belt, but like many other jobs, it went to Alabama and Mississippi, not Mexico or to immigrants.

#3 | Posted by Corky at 2024-02-13 05:19 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

These univited illegals are not ever going to make us into a better more secure country with a higher quality of living for citizens. They've turned and made sanctuary cities into criminal hell holes full of crap on streets and robberies. Those who supports it should be required to pay for it and house them. I support limited immigration with vetting and assimilation. If not put them all in Democrat cities.

Black and Hispanic Americans do not want Bidens invasion.

#4 | Posted by Robson at 2024-02-13 08:27 PM | Reply | Funny: 2

"Undocumented Immigrants

It's essential that the United States ensure that people who come here do so legally. The reality, however, is that there are currently an estimated 11 million individuals living in the United States without legal status, the vast majority of whom are working, paying taxes, and contributing in both economic and non-economic ways to their community, often starting their own businesses, and playing integral roles in agriculture, construction, hospitality, and other industries that are essential to the U.S. economy"

Number of DACA Eligible Residents 1,250,202
Share of DACA Eligible Population in Labor Force that is Employed 93.3%
Number of DACA-Eligible Entrepreneurs 43,115

Taxes & Spending Power
DACA-Eligible Household Income $23.4B
Taxes Paid $4.0B
" State & Local Taxes $1.8B
" Federal Taxes $2.2B
Total Spending Power $19.4B

www.newamericaneconomy.org

Yes, yes.... ruining the country with labor, entrepreneurship, and billions in spending in taxes.

Its the whiny, scared little racists and Fascists that are actually ruining the country.

#5 | Posted by Corky at 2024-02-13 08:49 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

spending AND taxes

#6 | Posted by Corky at 2024-02-13 08:49 PM | Reply

@#4 ... Black and Hispanic Americans do not want Bidens invasion. ...

It is now the Republican-owned invasion.

It is the House Republicans that killed the bill that would have dealt with the issue you cite.

#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-02-13 08:52 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

The truth is, in a capitalist labor starved nation like the USA, a larger pool of workers always leads to a lot more money being pumped into our economy. Doesn't matter who the President is, or whether people love it or hate it. Econ 101.

#8 | Posted by moder8 at 2024-02-13 09:28 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

But these immigrants aren't white, so the MAGAts hate them. They want immigrants from white European countries where people have no interest in emigrating to the US because they live in first-world nations with better services, better healthcare, and fewer chances of being murdered by a gun-toting incel in a red hat who's aggrieved because women won't talk to him and the only sex he's ever experienced is with his youth pastor at summer camp.

The fact is that even white immigrants, the Irish and the Italians, were hated by the white residents of the US at the time because they were seen as uneducated, lower class, criminal types, so the more things change...

#9 | Posted by _Gunslinger_ at 2024-02-13 11:35 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Black and Hispanic Americans do not want Bidens invasion.

#4 | POSTED BY ROBSON: TRUMP'S invasion, as last night in NY proved.

#10 | Posted by Zed at 2024-02-14 10:26 AM | Reply

If you believe this kind of propaganda without thinking critically about everything it doesn't say, you are part of the problem. It's already been proven that we spend more on immigration than we make, yet this article doesn't mention that at all. So increasing by $7t but incurring $10t in costs does NOT mean all of a sudden we are $7t richer. I know Liberals are terrible at math, or at least what I've seen on Drudge over the years proves that beyond any doubt, but in this case the logic is kind of easy to understand.

And there are so many more caveats to this conclusion that it's impossible to have the time to even address them all. There will be some areas where immigration will help, for sure. However, monetarily, while America continues to spend what it doesn't have an having much more difficult times even paying off the interest, the net result is not positive.

"But these immigrants aren't white, so the MAGAts hate them."

Liberals coming up with their own conclusions to help their own egos accept that their conclusions aren't actually that good or logical just never ends. Immigrants commit crime. Immigrants take jobs. Immigrants get treatment that others don't (even Adams just said that immigrants are going to have to start living on the streets because they don't have enough housing, completely ignoring that there have been significant amounts of people living on the streets already in NY and they haven't done anything about them but will give up homes to immigrants). And this stuff is happening across the entire world. In other words, there is ample, logical, real-world evidence that the reasons to be cautious against unfettered or undeterred immigration are justified. But, since Liberals can't understand that, they make up cookie-cutter, Liberal boilerplate to help their egos.

It really isn't anything new and arguable. But, as always have to add a disclaimer or Liberals pick apart anything not said, it's obvious some people are racist. But no more so than the racist Liberals who have been discriminating against Jews for months now.

#11 | Posted by humtake at 2024-02-14 12:30 PM | Reply

The anti-immigrants, the people whose own families immigrated to the US, keep proving their ignorance about basic American history.

Immigrants are responsible for the US becoming a great country and an economic powerhouse.

There's no surprise that immigrants are a benefit. They always have been.

#12 | Posted by Derek_Wildstar at 2024-02-14 01:03 PM | Reply

Keep those wages low! (but really, the rich need the poor to be rich)

#13 | Posted by Brennnn at 2024-02-14 01:21 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

From where I watch GOP b*tching every evening in WV,
the main problem is low skilled whites either wanting
a Total Handout from their Orange God 'Sir Marmalade',
OR expecting that GED and lack of viable skills to garner
them $50 hr in wages...

neither is going to happen.........EVER.

So, why not just admit it that you should have stayed
awake in math and science class, instead of sleeping through
them than running off to Shop Class to hammer out metal
widgets with the rest of the delinquents.

Maybe, if you are lucky, your child will pay attention
and do better.

#14 | Posted by earthmuse at 2024-02-14 02:24 PM | Reply

Damn. I leave you guys alone for a few days, and here you all are ceding the argument to Trump that "immigrants" are synonymous with the illegal/undocumented kind. You kids never learn.

#15 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-02-14 08:02 PM | Reply

"I'm still waiting for the news interview of an American who lost his job picking lettuce to an immigrant."

That's how you see immigrants, huh? Thanks for showing your true colours.

#16 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-02-14 08:04 PM | Reply

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