{"id":31965,"date":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1969-12-31T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/report-legalizing-illegal-immigrants-to-cost-6-3-trillion\/31965\/"},"modified":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1969-12-31T23:00:00","slug":"report-legalizing-illegal-immigrants-to-cost-6-3-trillion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/report-legalizing-illegal-immigrants-to-cost-6-3-trillion\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Legalizing Illegal Immigrants to Cost $6.3 Trillion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Stephen Dinan<\/strong>
Washington Times<\/a>
May 7, 2013<\/p>\n

The Heritage Foundation said Monday that legalizing illegal immigrants would cost taxpayers a net $6.3 trillion over the next 50 years \u2013 releasing a report that ignited a venomous battle over an immigration bill and who is truly representing the conservative movement in the debate.<\/p>\n

Driving the costs in the Heritage report are simple demographics: Illegal immigrants are more likely to lack a high school education, and more than a third of households headed by illegal immigrants live below the poverty line, meaning those households consume more in services than they pay in taxes.<\/p>\n

Heritage said legalizing them improves the situation in the short run but leaves a big hole over the longer term, when they access public health programs and, eventually, Social Security and Medicare benefits.<\/p>\n

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This article was posted: Tuesday, May 7, 2013 at 1:00 pm<\/p>\n

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