From: Gronk <invalide@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.trump,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican
Subject: Re: Trump Immigration Raids Drain $240 BILLION From The Economy -
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2025 23:49:37 -0600
Organization: 2&0
https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/press-release/immigrants-keep-economy-strong-as-congress-debates-mass-deportation/
Undocumented immigrants are essential contributors to the economy. In
2023, undocumented immigrant households paid $89.8 billion in federal,
state, and local taxes and held $299 billion in spending power. In
total, immigrant (both legal and undocumented) households paid nearly
$16.80 in every $100 tax dollars collected by federal, state, and local
governments, funding a wide range of social services that benefit all
Americans.
Immigrants inject trillions of dollars of housing wealth in the United
States. The vast majority of immigrants are not dependent on state
governments to guarantee them with housing; in reality, they are putting
back vast sums of money into the housing market and revitalizing
neighborhoods. In 2023, immigrant households paid over $167 billion in
rent in the housing market, and held over $6.6 trillion in housing wealth.
https://cmsny.org/importance-of-immigrant-labor-to-us-economy/
According to the American Community Survey (ACS), immigrants paid $382.9
billion in federal taxes and $196.3 billion in state and local taxes in
2022. Undocumented immigrants, using Individual Tax Identification
Numbers (ITIN) numbers, paid $59.4 billion in federal and $13.6 billion
in state and local taxes in 2022. Undocumented immigrants also paid
$25.7 billion in Social Security taxes, $6.4 billion in Medicare taxes,
and $1.8 billion in unemployment insurance in 2022, programs for which
they are ineligible.