How Much Do Unauthorized Immigrants Contribute To Your $tate? (1113 hits)
A new report by the IPC uses tax data to show that unauthorized immigrant households paid a whopping $11.2 billion in state and local taxes in 2010 alone.
All too often, immigration restrictionists cloud the debate with the myth that unauthorized immigrants use a variety of public services yet paying nothing in taxes. But hard data recently released by the Immigration Policy Center (IPC) backs up what economists have been saying for years—undocumented immigrants do, in fact, pay taxes. A new report by the IPC uses tax data to show that unauthorized immigrant households paid a whopping $11.2 billion in state and local taxes in 2010 alone.
