No Comprehensive Immigration Reform Will Cost US $80 Billion a Year

The Cato Institute recently released a report highlighting the economic loss that the United States will incur by failing to address comprehensive immigration reform. The report determined that the United States stands to loss $80 billion a year if the United States only strengthens its immigration enforcement and fails to create comprehensive reform. If the United States were to have comprehensive immigration reform, it would have an economic benefit of $180 billion.  As the Wall Street Journal opines, “[R]e-enforcing the deeply flawed immigration status quo, rather than reforming it, isn’t doing the economy any favors.”

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