GET RSS FEEDIllegal immigrants worth $1.8 trillion to US economy
Posted by Catherine Stifter May 20, 2008
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If the 8.1 million undocumented immigrants who cut lawns, bus tables and perform other jobs disappeared overnight, the nation's economy would lose nearly $1.8 trillion in annual spending.
Texas, the second-hardest-hit state after California, would lose 1.2 million undocumented workers and $220.7 billion in expenditures.
BENEFITS AND COSTS
The impact of illegal immigration on the U.S. economy.
• 8.1 million: illegal immigrants
• $1.8 trillion: annual spending, U.S.
• $220.7 billion: annual spending, Texas
• $652 billion : annual contribution to U.S. GDP
• $27 billion or more: * the costs of education, health care and incarceration in six states, including Texas
Sources: The Perryman Group;
*Federation for American Immigration Reform
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