Well, not for nothing but I would take what the Washington Examiner has to say about many things since they are not an unbiased news organization...
According to MediaBias/FactCheck (
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com)
The Washington Examiner is:
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS
These media sources are slightly to moderately conservative in bias. They often publish factual information that utilizes loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes) to favor conservative causes. These sources are generally trustworthy for information, but may require further investigation.
Factual Reporting: HIGH
Notes: The Washington Examiner is an American political journalism website and weekly magazine based in Washington, D.C. that covers politics and policy in the United States and internationally. The publication is influential with conservative circles in politics and government-related fields.
So...I followed the suggestion of requiring further investigation and found this:
The article references as it's main source this report:
"The Fiscal Burden Of Illegal Immigration on U.S. Taxpayers" that claims the cost of illegal immigration is costing the US $115 billion (I actually read the report). See they claim the Fed and state cost of servicing the illegals is about $135 bil and only pay about $19 bil which is where they get the $115 bil...
Problem is the reports factual basis and how the organization FAIR (that generated the report) is questionable....
The Southern Poverty Law Center considers FAIR an extremist hate group with one mission: to severely limit immigration into the United States. Although FAIR maintains a veneer of legitimacy that has allowed its principals to testify in Congress and lobby the federal government, this veneer hides much ugliness. See:
FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORMFAIR leaders have ties to white supremacist groups and eugenicists and have made many racist statements. Its advertisements have been rejected because of racist content. FAIR’s founder, John Tanton, has expressed his wish that America remain a majority-white population: a goal to be achieved, presumably, by limiting the number of nonwhites who enter the country. One of the group’s main goals is upending the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which ended a decades-long, racist quota system that limited immigration mostly to northern Europeans. FAIR President Dan Stein has called the Act a "mistake."
If the SPLC is a bit too progressive for your tastes how about this article:
A radical anti-immigration group infiltrated the GOP. Now it's in the White HouseDan Stein was 27 years old when he came to work as the press secretary of the Federation for American Immigration Reform. It was 1982, and the group — better known by its acronym FAIR — was operating out of a run-down townhouse on P Street in Washington, D.C., a “cozy old joint” with rats in the ceiling, Stein once recalled. FAIR counted just 10 members and was essentially a fringe group; back then, its nativist, radically anti-immigration views didn’t align with positions held by mainstream politicians, Republican or Democrat.
FAIR President Dan Stein speaks on the group's plan for immigration reform in the Trump administration
during a November press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
Not anymore. Today, FAIR enjoys broad support among Republican lawmakers and unprecedented influence in the Oval Office. A cadre of former staffers and allies fill the Trump administration’s highest ranks, and FAIR’s ideas are profoundly shaping national immigration policy. On Tuesday, Julie Kirchner, who served as FAIR’s executive director for 10 years until 2015, was named the new ombudsman of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. She will report directly to the deputy director of the Department of Homeland Security and will be in charge of helping immigrants navigate the green-card and citizenship-application process.
Besides Kirchner, at least five other key advisers to President Trump on immigration have ties to FAIR: Jeff Sessions, Kris Kobach, Kellyanne Conway, Stephen Miller, and Lou Barletta. Among them, they acted as legal counsel, board members, and longtime allies of the group. (Kirchner declined to comment, and none of the other five responded to multiple requests to be interviewed for this article.)
So pardon me if I discount your post...and the fact the FAIR seems to have influence worries me...
