Comment by expedition32
18 hours ago
Most countries don't extend citizenship to illegals. No driver license, no housing, no benefits. They are irrelevant to the statistics- it would be like counting squirrels.
18 hours ago
Most countries don't extend citizenship to illegals. No driver license, no housing, no benefits. They are irrelevant to the statistics- it would be like counting squirrels.
>They are irrelevant to the statistics
"Wow, why are the roads wearing out twice as fast as we expect?!"
Undocumented residents are pretty different from squirrels. They participate in the economy pretty similarly to documented residents. Consumption, transportation, jobs, housing, etc, and all the related taxation and resource utilization.
Would be tough to pull that off in Switzerland, having lived there for a stint. Can’t imagine the tax guys would be that happy.