What Do Undocumented Immigrants Contribute To Our Country?

[erronis]

https://digbysblog.net/2025/07/16/what-do-undocumented-immigrants-contribute-to-our-country/

Who needs ’em, right? Aside from all the contributions they make with their labor, talent and culture, there’s this:

Undocumented immigrants paid $96.7 billion in federal, state, and local taxes in 2022. Most of that amount, $59.4 billion, was paid to the federal government while the remaining $37.3 billion was paid to state and local governments.

Undocumented immigrants paid federal, state, and local taxes of $8,889 per person in 2022. In other words, for every 1 million undocumented immigrants who reside in the country, public services receive $8.9 billion in additional tax revenue.

More than a third of the tax dollars paid by undocumented immigrants go toward payroll taxes dedicated to funding programs that these workers are barred from accessing. Undocumented immigrants paid $25.7 billion in Social Security taxes, $6.4 billion in Medicare taxes, and $1.8 billion in unemployment insurance taxes in 2022.

Yet these people are being hunted like animals by violent masked men and thrown into concentration camps.

We are monsters.

[JPK]

1. Correction

The republicans are the monsters.

[Enter stage left]

2. Not only monsters, but STUPID monsters!

[erronis]

5. You perfectly place the blame on those that can't keep up, can't compete.

There only recourse is to try to undermine those that can.

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4. Their backbreaking labor and deducted FICA funds that they can't get a tax refund back...

because they're not citizens who get a w-2 form to file taxes.

It works out great for everyone but them.

[B.See]

6. Trump said Alligator Alcatraz was for the 'most vicious people on the planet' -- but hundreds have no criminal record

Trump said Alligator Alcatraz was built for the ‘most vicious people on the planet’ — but hundreds of detainees have no criminal record - The Independent

“They are essentially packed into cages, wall-to-wall humans, 32 detainees per cage,” Florida Democratic Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz told reporters after visiting the facility over the weekend.

“The only thing inside those cages are their bunk beds, and there are three tiny toilets,”

Wasserman Schultz said.around 70 percent of all detainees in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody are being held for civil violations, not criminal convictions, 

"... most vicious people on the planet?" Excluding him, apparently.