Most have lower skills. They overwhelmingly are lower income workers. They will immediately be treated like green card holderslegal permanent residentsand be entitled to all the benefits that lowincome American workers get. which are paid for by the U.S. taxpayers. As lowincome workers. they will pay little. if any. income taxeswe know thatwhile gaining the child tax credit for their children. food stamps. subsidized housing. education. and health care at oar emergency rooms. So in one part of the analyses. the Congressional Budget Office adds up all these numbers. and they conclude that the cost over the next 10 years to the taxpayers of this countrynot including enforcement. fences. border patrol. all that stuff. just the cost from legalizing those who are here illegallywill be over $30 billion. Now. with my amendment I offered to delay the earnedincome tax credit payments to illegal immigrants who are here. and to delay it until at least they became a legal permanent resident. we would reduce that to maybe $25 billion. That passed by a narrow margin. which I was pleased to have passed. but all the rest of the benefits are there. so we arc looking at perhaps a $25 billion net drain on the U.S. Treasury. according to the Congressional Budget Office.
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Generalization that undocumented immigrants have lower skills and are lower income workers who will drain the U.S. Treasury.