The individual provisions of the bill have never been examined by any committee. Let me state that again. The individual provisions of the bill on the Senate floor have never been examined by any committee. But every witness who came to that one hearing acknowledged that highskilled immigrants are good for the economy and that lowskilled immigrants are a net drain on the economyon average. not every single one. Many of them turn out to be productive and go on and be productive. But on average. from an economist point of view. based on the data we have. they tend to take out more in taxes than they pay in taxes.
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Generalization that low-skilled immigrants are a net drain on the economy.