Trump claims "the $18 billion wall will pay for itself" by re-tweeting Fox News.

[Miles Archer]

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@realDonaldTrump

More Donald J. Trump Retweeted Fox News
“According to the Center for Immigration Studies, the $18 billion wall will pay for itself by curbing the importation of crime, drugs and illegal immigrants who tend to go on the federal dole...”Donald J. Trump added,

@FoxNews
Study: Trump’s Border Wall Could Pay for Itself by Cutting Welfare to Illegal Immigrants http://bit.ly/2p8DuHY
8:24 AM - 13 Mar 2018

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Chris Jackson
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@ChrisCJackson

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I thought Mexico was paying for the Wall. There was a chant and everything.

8:24 AM - 13 Mar 2018

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[Angry Dragon]

1. Nice cartoon

[PA Democrat]

2. We're still waiting for those tax cuts to pay for themselves.

[Beartracks]

10. And for the job creators to create jobs with their PREVIOUS tax cuts. n/t

[smirkymonkey]

3. Oh god, can you just shut the fuck up for one day?

Jeeezus!

[BigmanPigman]

4. Does the moron realize that crimes committed by undocumented immigrants

has been declining for several years now throughout the state? Tillerson is right, he is a fucking moron!

[Eyeball_Kid]

5. There is no such thing as a "federal dole" for undocumented workers.

[flibbitygiblets]

7. Quite the opposite, they are typically paid a pittance, have taxes taken out of their checks

but will never get state or federal refunds, social security or unemployment. Oh, and the price of produce would skyrocket if there were no immigrants to harvest crops. Not that the idiot pResident ever ate a vegetable...

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/09/undocumented-immigrants-and-taxes/499604/

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

6. Center for Immigration Studies

From Wikipedia:

Center for Immigration Studies

Not to be confused with Center for Migration Studies of New York or United States Citizenship and Immigration Services.

Motto: Pro-Immigrant, Low-Immigration

The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) is a non-profit research organization "that favors far lower immigration numbers and produces research to further those views." Founded in 1985 as a spin-off from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), the center's self-described mission is to provide immigration policymakers, the academic community, news media, and concerned citizens with reliable information about the social, economic, environmental, security, and fiscal consequences of legal and illegal immigration into the United States.

Various reports published by CIS have been disputed by scholars on immigration, a range of think tanks, and fact-checkers such as PolitiFact, FactCheck.Org, Washington Post, Snopes, CNN and NBC News. Critics have accused the CIS of extremist nativist views and for ties to white supremacy groups, which CIS rejects.

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So basically it's the Fox News of immigration.

[pansypoo53219]

8. like tax cuts + tinklebell ekonomikkks.

everything is FREE!

[KY_EnviroGuy]

9. Could California pass a law against such walls?

Say, make any wall over 10-ft. tall subject to state approval? Just a crazy thought. Probably a question of jurisdiction.

Thanks for the good post.

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