Why don't Americans know the following myth about immigration?

Myths About Immigration (http://www.justiceforimmigrants.org/myth...





Immigrants send all their money back to their home countries


• In addition to the consumer spending of immigrant households, immigrants and their businesses contribute $162 billion in tax revenue to U.S. federal, state, and local governments. While it is true that immigrants remit billions of dollars a year to their home countries, this is one of the most targeted and effective forms of direct foreign investment.


(Source: http://www.cato.org/research/articles/gr...

Why don't Americans know the following myth about immigration?
You are right. The fact that they contribute to the US economy more than they take out of it IS a myth.





And this question has already been posted and answered:


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Reply:There NO AMNESTY there leaving%26gt;
Reply:While they do pay some taxes, the truth is that they generally COST more than they pay. If an indigent illegal shows up in an emergency room the hospital is required to provide treatment regardless of their ability to pay. Three hours hooked up to an ECG and an X-Ray can cost over $3,000 or more and the illegal certainly isn't going to pay the bill!





We recently had a major wreck on the Interstate caused by an illegal (uninsured of course) who couldn't read the signs. The costs of that, largely borne locally, will run into millions.





I have NO issue with legal immigrants whatsoever. I'm flattered that they chose my beloved country as their adopted home; they can offer no higher homage. But I have a MAJOR issue with the illegals AND the employers who employ them at sub-mimimum wages.





If our government would just start enforcing the laws currently on the books the problem would largely solve itself. If employers were hit with the maximum penalty of $10,000 per day per undocumented worker (legal or otherwise) it would be more expensive to hire illegals that it would be to pay legal workers a living wage.





We have poultry processing plants in my area that are staffed almost exclusively by illegals making about $3.50 per hour, all under the table. They are raided a couple times a year and usually are hit with a measly $25,000 fine. In 2 or 3 weeks, 90% of the illegals who were rounded up are back on the production line! One of the production managers publicly admitted in an interview that the fine was just a cost of doing business but was still much cheaper than paying legal workers the $15 or more per hour that they demanded for such nasty work. When they get raided they do bring in legal local workers and pay them $15 to $18 per hour as "temps" but let them go as the illegals return. This has to stop NOW!
Reply:No myth, just reality.
Reply:Americans should also know those illegals already here in this country WIRE MONEY to pay off the coyote in the border regions to pay for their friends and family waiting to be ''turned loose''


The Govt. should tap in and confiscate this money being paid to Western Union and all those taco stores that wire money to the border regions.





THAT WOULD STOP A LOT OF THIS CRAP.