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The topic is about the impact of immigrants on Social Security and Medicare, including their tax contributions and eligibility for benefits.
Evidence from government analysts, academic centers, and advocacy groups converges: undocumented immigrants are not a simple “burden” on the U.S. economy; they pay substantial taxes, sustain key indus...
Undocumented (often called “illegal”) immigrants make measurable fiscal and economic contributions to the United States: they pay billions in federal, state and local taxes, contribute to Social Secur...
do pay substantial federal, state, and local taxes through income withholding, payroll taxes, sales taxes, property taxes and other levies; most recent comprehensive estimates put the total in the rou...
Overall, the balance of contemporary research finds that immigrants as a whole—counting naturalized citizens, legal noncitizens and undocumented workers—pay more in taxes than they receive in public b...
Making the temporary 2025 tax and spending provisions permanent—whether those in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), parts of H.R.1, or reconciliation proposals—would materially worsen U.S. debt t...