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1. Immigrants pay a nice part of Social Security

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Tue Apr 8, 2025, 10:59 AM

Apr 2025

and never receive payments back.

Undocumented immigrants paid $96.7 billion in federal, state, and local taxes in 2022. Most of that amount, $59.4 billion, was paid to the federal government while the remaining $37.3 billion was paid to state and local governments.
https://itep.org/undocumented-immigrants-taxes-2024/

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