How do I know??? Because Long Island needs them.
20% of Long Island’s working population is an illegal immigrant. 22% of immigrants are business owners, 16% are mangers or executives and another 22% have professional jobs. Of all the illegal immigrants in Long Island the average amount of taxes paid annually is two thousand dollars per family in state and federal taxes.
According to immigrationdirect.com Seth Forman of the Long Island Regional Planning Council told the Wall Street Journal “they did not consider how immigrants drain resources.” While other Long Island officials have provided the above numbers to show that Long Island benefits from the illegal immigrants working in their city.
The above numbers prove that while immigrant s are not here legally they still are a resource this country does not know how to appreciate. This clearly shows that these people pay taxes and legally provide for their family and they bring revenue and money to the city. Now Long Island does not have such a big population of immigrants, if we states such as California and Texas released numbers like the above the importance and significance of immigrants would drastically increase. So I once again say… Immigrants ARE Important.
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