THIS GUY SAID to me the other day, “You know what the problem is with this county?” Limo Libs running everything? I guessed. “Nope,” he said, “it’s our government bringing in all these Mexicans and giving them Escalades.” I hadn’t heard about Immigration’s Escalade program, but I had just read the latest study by the Migration Policy Institute that found the net effect of illegal immigration contributed a nearly invisible 0.03 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product, with most of that money going to the people who employ illegals. The net cost of illegals to the economy was an equivalently minuscule 0.10 percent of GDP incurred via public ed and emergency health care. Illegal immigrants have a neutral effect on the overall economy.
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