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By Hsin-Yin Lee
More than 37 million immigrants in the United States, both legal and illegal, http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3636 the federal government more than $346 billion last year, twice as much as the nation’s fiscal deficit, according to a report released yesterday.
“This is another nail in the coffin of economic growth,” said Edwin Rubenstein, director of research and president of ESR Research, which released the report.
Mr. Rubenstein, a former director of research at the Hudson Institute, a nonpartisan policy research organization, said U.S. taxpayers paid more than $9,000 for each immigrant in the country, a third of whom are believed to be in the U.S. illegally.
The report, which analyzed costs based on 15 separate federal agencies, estimated that the departmental impacts ranged from a high of $146 billion at the Treasury Department to a low of $300 million at the Defense Department.The loss estimates, the report said, included $100 billion in federal taxes lost “from the reduction of native incomes caused by immigrant workers.”
While a total of 15 federal departments were examined in terms of the fiscal impact of immigration, Mr. Rubenstein said the federal budgets never provided a comprehensive analysis to the public.
And even programs that are not usually associated with immigration, he said, have actually added financial burdens to the taxpayers.
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