What Do Undocumented Immigrants Contribute To Our Country?

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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.