The anti-immigration Heritage report even conservatives are debunking

A conservative group's fiscal assault on a bipartisan bill fails to rally most Republicans

Heritage Foundation President Jim DeMint says Amnesty will cost the American tax payer trillions and will only worsen the immigration problem.
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The conservative Heritage Foundation released a report Monday arguing that a bipartisan immigration bill in the Senate — which would grant legal residency to the estimated 11 million undocumented workers currently living in the U.S. — would also stick taxpayers with a multi-trillion-dollar bill. The report has come under heavy criticism, and much of it from an improbable source: Conservatives.

The report claims that the bill would result in undocumented workers receiving a total of $9.4 trillion in government benefits over their lifetimes while paying only $3.1 trillion in taxes — a net loss of $6.3 trillion in taxpayer money.

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Jon Terbush

Jon Terbush is an associate editor at TheWeek.com covering politics, sports, and other things he finds interesting. He has previously written for Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, and Business Insider.