Expulsion of illegal immigrants will cost U.S $1.7 billion a year, study says
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Hoy’s immigration blog this morning quotes figures from the distinguished Texas economist Ray Perryman. He concludes that the expulsion of the 8 million undocumented workers in the United States would provoke an annual loss of $1.7 billion a year:
‘Los datos que concluye, lejos de asombrar, alarman, e indican que si se produce una expulsión del país de los 8.1 millones de trabajadores indocumentados, provocaría un pérdida de 1.7 billones de dólares al año para la economía nacional y 652,000 millones de dólares en relación con el PIB anual.’ ‘The data...indicate that if there were an expulsion from the country of the 8.1 million undocumented workers, it would provoke a loss of $1.7 billion per year for the national economy and $6.52 billion in relation to the gross domestic product.’ The figures show, says the Hoy blog post, that the contribution of undocumented migrants to the economy is not a virtual one - that the losses the country is facing should they be expelled will be very real. -- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City