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By Susan Ferriss - Bee Staff Writer
Last Updated 6:22 am PDT Monday, June 18, 2007
Story appeared in MAIN NEWS section, Page A1
It sounds scary.
The conservative Heritage Foundation estimates that the taxpayer cost of amnesty for 12 million illegal immigrants could be as high as $2.6 trillion by the time they reach their 80s.
With more than half of adult illegal immigrants thought to be low-skilled and lacking a high school education, the Washington, D.C.-based think tank contends that they and their descendents wouldn’t come close to covering their cost to society for decades to come.
To put $2.6 trillion in perspective, the 2006 U.S. gross domestic product – or the value of all goods and services produced here – was about $13 trillion.
sacbee.com/101/story/227946.html
Last Updated 6:22 am PDT Monday, June 18, 2007
Story appeared in MAIN NEWS section, Page A1
It sounds scary.
The conservative Heritage Foundation estimates that the taxpayer cost of amnesty for 12 million illegal immigrants could be as high as $2.6 trillion by the time they reach their 80s.
With more than half of adult illegal immigrants thought to be low-skilled and lacking a high school education, the Washington, D.C.-based think tank contends that they and their descendents wouldn’t come close to covering their cost to society for decades to come.
To put $2.6 trillion in perspective, the 2006 U.S. gross domestic product – or the value of all goods and services produced here – was about $13 trillion.
sacbee.com/101/story/227946.html