James Carroll at the Courier:
Calling it “flawed” and “rushed,” House Republican leaders Wednesday snubbed sweeping immigration reform legislation, even as a new study showed that state and local tax revenues in Kentucky and Indiana would increase by nearly $56 million annually if reform passed.Real immigration reform is "If you get any part of your body over the border and you want to be a citizen, you're a citizen." That repugs won't accept even the proposed barely-qualifies-for-the-name "reform" is shameful.
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A study by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy offered Obama and other supporters of reform more ammunition: Overall, the 11.2 million undocumented immigrants who would obtain legal work status under a reform system would pay an additional $2 billion a year to states and localities. The nonpartisan institute is a Washington think tank.
In Kentucky, undocumented immigrants pay almost $59 million each year in state and local taxes, but that would go up an additional $23.2 million if those immigrants were given legal status, the report said.
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