Immigrants are an Education and Training Windfall

A large majority of immigrants, whether legal or illegal, arrive in the United States in the prime of their working years. More than 70 percent are over the age of 18. Their education and upbringing were paid for by the citizens of the country from which they came, not American taxpayers.

The windfall to the United States of obtaining this human capital at no expense to American taxpayers is roughly $1.43 trillion. Immigrants are a fiscal bargain for our country.

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