Image: Wikimedia Commons Oliver White / Crops on the hill / CC BY-SA 2.0 An economic analysis reveals how selective statistics are used to portray illegal immigration as beneficial while obscuring its true impact on American workers. For years, liberal advocacy groups and complicit media outlets have pushed a narrative that sounds almost too good to be true: illegal immigrants are contributing $96 billion annually in taxes while maintaining higher employment rates than native-born Americans. Like most things that sound too good to be true, this claim crumbles under basic economic scrutiny. The recent surge in claims about immigrant “tax contributions” and “employment rates” represents a sophisticated misinformation campaign. The cornerstone of pro-illegal immigration propaganda is the claim that undocumented immigrants pay $96 billion in…
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