Hardline Anti-Immigration Group Targets VA Immigrants ... and Kids
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A study by the Commonwealth Institute
found that undocumented immigrants in Virginia not only paid between $260 million and $311 million in sales, excise, income, property, Social Security, and Medicare taxes in 2007, but that employers contributed an additional $119 million to $142 million in Social Security, Medicare, and Unemployment Insurance taxes on their behalf—for a grand total of between $379 million and $453 million in taxes. The Commonwealth Institute also noted that the $2.6 billion to $3.1 billion earned by undocumented workers “is used to purchase goods and services in the Commonwealth.” The economic contributions (and political clout) of immigrants and their children are described in greater detail in a new IPC fact sheet.
FAIR’s estimate of undocumented immigration’s “cost” to Virginia taxpayers ignores the fact that undocumented workers are also consumers, and that their U.S.-born children are not immigrants. Once these inconvenient truths are taken into account, FAIR’s “cost” evaporates. Virginia’s budget deficit was not created by immigrants or children—and it won’t be filled by attacking them.
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Walter Ewing is a Senior Researcher at the Immigration Policy Center (IPC). He's a regular contributor to IPC's blog, Immigration Impact.
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