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Lawlight said:
Xeon said:

I assume you're speaking hypothetically?

I'm ok with accepting as many desperate people as we can. It's a short term burden but a long term gain.

It’s a short term burden that will not turn in a gain in your lifetime, if ever.

Well, I've already shared how in one generation my family has already become tax paying, hard working, and integrated part of society. Maybe we were lucky and granted it is anecdotal, but the possibility is still there.

It may not be in my lifetime, but who cares? I firmly believe it would pay off eventually. Imagine if these immigrants became tax paying citizens. The benefits of that may not show with them but what about taxing their children when they work? Or their children's children? And on it goes. Would that not pay off sooner or later?