From the Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Comprehensive immigration legislation passed by the Senate would reduce illegal immigration into the U.S. by one-third to one-half beyond what would happen under existing law, the Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday.
That’s a significantly greater reduction than the nonpartisan budget office said would have resulted from an earlier version of the bill approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee, which would have cut illegal immigration only by 25 percent. [...]
The CBO also said that despite spending $36 billion more on border security than would have happened under earlier versions of the bill, the legislation would still reduce the budget deficit by $158 billion over 10 years and $685 billion in the decade after that. Taxes paid by newly legalized residents, along with other revenue, would outpace new spending for government benefits and other costs under the bill. The measure, if enacted, would cost the government about $23 billion to implement over the first 10 years.
Given that the Senate immigration reform bill will cut illegal immigration significantly, reduce the deficit, and create new taxpayers, that should compel House conservatives to vote for it, right? Don’t they hate illegal immigration, the “moochers,” and the deficit?
I jest.
We all know the Congressional Budget Office is in-the-tank for the president. The Heritage Foundation, which comically calculated that immigration reform would cost over $6 trillion by conjuring millions of people that don’t exist out of thin air, is obviously more credible.