{"id":1877,"date":"2013-05-07T14:39:55","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T14:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=1877"},"modified":"2013-05-07T14:39:55","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T14:39:55","slug":"what-amnesty-for-illegal-immigrants-will-cost-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/05\/07\/what-amnesty-for-illegal-immigrants-will-cost-america\/","title":{"rendered":"What amnesty for illegal immigrants will cost America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We estimate that when those who broke our laws to come here start having access to the same benefits as citizens do \u2014 as is called for by the Senate \u201cGang of Eight\u201d immigration bill \u2014 the average unlawful immigrant household will receive nearly $3 in benefits for every dollar in taxes paid. The net annual cost is $28,000 per unlawful immigrant household.<\/p>\n<p>Given the U.S. debt of $17 trillion, the fiscal effects detailed in our study should be at the forefront of legislators\u2019 minds as they consider immigration reform.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/politics\/?x=entry:entry130507-123535\">What amnesty for illegal immigrants will cost America<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We estimate that when those who broke our laws to come here start having access to the same benefits as citizens do \u2014 as is called for by the Senate \u201cGang of Eight\u201d immigration bill \u2014 the average unlawful immigrant household will receive nearly $3 in benefits for every dollar in taxes paid. The net annual cost is $28,000 per unlawful immigrant household. Given the U.S. debt of $17 trillion, the fiscal effects detailed in our study should be at the forefront of legislators\u2019 minds as they consider immigration reform. via What amnesty for illegal immigrants will cost America<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[890],"class_list":["post-1877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}