Illegal immigrants are making the reasoned decision to take their $1,000 per person and fly home.
"A group of 38 Hondurans arrived at Ramón Villeda Morales International Airport on Monday afternoon after applying through a mobile app provided by US Customs and Border Protection, Honduran Deputy Foreign Minister Antonio García said." https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/19/americas/first-us-self-deportation-flight-honduras-intl-latam |
LOL. Passing out free $$ to Americans. Can’t make this up. |
Way cheaper than free healthcare, food and education for 18 years. |
Doubtful. The drain on the economy of losing all of the workers and their money and economic activity will be in net negative, not a net positive |
Away goes all of the tax they paid in. Sales tax, property tax, social security and Medicare taxes that they would never collect, and throw in the tariff taxes as well. |
Public education alone is on average $10-$13k/year. More if you require EL or Sped services and more if you require free meals. Add in all the free healthcare and multiply by multiple kids per family and it’s doubtful that their family’s financial contribution to our economy exceeds what we are spending on them each year. |
+1 and the public education cost is closer to $20k/student in densely populated areas. |
I imagine similarly to the doge fork offers, the vast majority of people who take it are going to be the people who were ready to go anyway. The money making ability is just so much greater here that most people wont think it’s worth it. |
64 down and a few million to go. |
We need more South Africans first. Someone has to pick berries, kill chickens, build Donald’s skyscrapers. |
^^ WHITE South Africans that we can karate with balloons an DC flags since they nearly died of genocide. |
Send them off. Find somebody else to pay all those property taxes. Good luck. |
all the “workers”? Nah. You mean “all the underpaid slaves”. That’s why you want them here. So you can get your lawn cut for $20 or house cleaned for $50. |
+1 People like the previous posters are living in areas that are not impacted in the ways you mentioned, or they wouldn't make such absurd statements. |
dp. wow that's super cheap. Tell me where I can find someone who charges that little. Even the cash only gardener and housecleaner I used to have charged more than 3x that. |