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To: mph who wrote (59652)	6/7/2007 11:17:23 AM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (2) of 90947

"I'd actually be interested in seeing the studies that show that the net cost of having illegals here is insignificant or even negative. Please do post them. I'm also interested in who funded the studies." I did a quick Google Scholar search last night, but didn't have time to go more than a page or two deep. I don't have time to find the links again right now and the search is easy enough for anyone to do, but there was a late '90s Rand lit-review kind of paper that summarized a variety of other studies, noting that estimates of the net cost to taxpayers of illegal immigrant households (benefits rcvd less taxes paid) ranged from a negative $1400 to positive $1600 per year. The summary is here: rand.org The half-a-legal-household estimate is from a WaPo article about the CIS study. washingtonpost.com

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