Josh Gay

And look, it's important to note here, too.

This is the best part to me.

And this is like what you can take away and argue with all your right wing friends on Facebook or wherever.

The white paper doesn't just include immigrants that are here with documented immigrants.

It includes the undocumented population as well.

And the other surprising part is if you look through this.

This wasn't just one year or a fluke or any weird spikes.

Cato tracks the numbers year by year.

Across the same period, across this 94 to 2023 period, again, immigrants pay more in taxes than they receive in government spending and government benefits in every single year of their study.

Not most years, not on average, every year.

Cato even goes into what happens if we had the Stephen Miller dream scenario where there are no immigrants.

They modeled the counterfactual here.

They modeled what happens if immigration goes away, if it's dramatically reduced or eliminated.

And the numbers are stark.

Without immigration over the last 30 years, the U.S.

government debt would exceed 200% of GDP, double the current level.

And look, we know this.

We know we're taking away workers.

We know we're taking people away that are doing critical jobs in the United States.

We're killing farms.