The President announced his budget Monday, sending many members of Congress into an angry frenzy over $3.83 trillion that Obama had allotted for an array of programs – mostly to fight growing unemployment and strengthen our weak economy.
But some members of Congress — many of the same who are complaining over the “huge” deficit– are trying to keep this big secret under wraps:
There is a $4.1 trillion choice in Washington. We did the math, and put simply:
Comprehensive Immigration Reform = $1.5 trillion increase in GDP over 10 years
Mass Deportation = $2.6 trillion loss in GDP over 10 years
How’s that, you ask?
A new report called “Raising the Floor for American Workers: The Economic Benefits of Comprehensive Immigration Reform,” by the Immigration Policy Center and the Center for American Progress shows that a policy of comprehensive immigration reform would grow U.S. GDP by 0.84 percent over 10 years, or a cumulative $1.5 trillion.
