Salon: The Election Is All About Casting Aside Trumpism

In New Jersey, undocumented  immigrants paid close to $600 million in state and local taxes, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. In 2013, analysts at the Social Security Administration calculated that undocumented immigrants had paid $13 billion into the system in the year 2010, and earned $34,000 a year, on average, at the time. From 1996 to 2003, undocumented workers paid a combined $90 billion into both Social Security and Medicare. Across the country close to one in three undocumented households own their own homes. Cumulatively those households pay $3.6 billion in property taxes. Read more