A state report found that deporting the estimated 1.4 million undocumented immigrants living in Texas in 2005 would have cost the state about $17.7 billion.
In 2006, Texas State Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn set out to assess the effect undocumented Texans have on the state economy — and found that they contributed more to Texas than they cost the state. “This is the first time any state has done a comprehensive financial analysis of the impact of undocumented immigrants on a state’s budget and economy,” Strayhorn, a Republican , wrote at the beginning of the report. It was also the last time Texas did such a study.
Economic effects When Strayhorn’s office studied their effect on the state’s economy, it found that undocumented Texans at the time produced about $1.6 billion in state revenues collected from taxes and other sources — exceeding the roughly $1.2 billion in state services, like public education and hospital care, they received. The study also found that local governments “bore the burden” of $1.4 billion in health care and law enforcement costs that were not compensated by the state.
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