The balance sheet shows that, over a decade, providing Medicaid, food stamps and other benefits to the immigrants would cost $48 billion, while the immigrants would produce $44 billion in federal tax revenue. Much of the money would flow into Social Security, helping to maintain the system's solvency as aging baby boomers retire.
The help would go not to people on the dole but to people laboring at the bottom of the economic ladder - working people. Where the Senate's plan gets costly is border security. The CBO puts the tab for 370 miles of fencing, 500 miles of vehicle barriers, 1,000 border agents, 20 detention facilities and similar measures at $78 billion over 10 years. This is the only type of spending countenanced by anti-immigration zealots because they fantasize that it's possible to seal the borders without providing opportunities for desperate, ambitious foreigners to hold jobs that Americans don't want. They're dreaming, and the Republican lawmakers who are holding fast for border enforcement and only border enforcement should wake up to the reality that America.
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