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<blockquote data-quote="roadrunner2012" data-source="post: 1132553" data-attributes="member: 40736">Not all agree:<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/05/gang-of-eight-immigration-bill-slapped-with-6-3-trillion-price-tag/" target="_blank">Critics Doubt Immigration Overhaul Would Cost Trillions - ABC News</a>The report comes as the Senate prepares to review and amend a comprehensive immigration bill this week.But it has come under fire from some conservatives, including “Gang&nbsp; of 8″ member Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., who panned today’s Heritage&nbsp; release.“Here we go again. New Heritage study claims huge cost for&nbsp; Immigration Reform. Ignores economic benefits. No dynamic scoring,”&nbsp; Flake <a href="https://twitter.com/JeffFlake/status/331435060756619264" target="_blank">wrote on Twitter</a>.Other conservatives, including Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax&nbsp; Reform and the Cato Institute, last month preemptively discounted the&nbsp; report’s findings.“Robert Rector’s work does not speak for the conservative movement;&nbsp; in fact, it does not even speak for the Heritage Foundation,” Norquist&nbsp; wrote in a letter to House and Senate immigration staff in April.Alex Nowrasteh, a fellow at the libertarian Cato Institute, cautioned&nbsp; in a post in April that the 2007 report was riddled with errors that&nbsp; Heritage would be wise to address in its update. Nowrasteh cited several&nbsp; methodological choices that he said overstates the net cost of&nbsp; legalization.“That 2007 report’s flawed methodology produced a grossly exaggerated&nbsp; cost to federal taxpayers of legalizing unauthorized immigrants while&nbsp; undercounting or discounting their positive tax and economic&nbsp; contributions – greatly affecting the 2007 immigration reform debate,”&nbsp; Nowrasteh wrote.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="roadrunner2012, post: 1132553, member: 40736"] Not all agree: [URL="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/05/gang-of-eight-immigration-bill-slapped-with-6-3-trillion-price-tag/"]Critics Doubt Immigration Overhaul Would Cost Trillions - ABC News[/URL] [I]The report comes as the Senate prepares to review and amend a comprehensive immigration bill this week.[/I] [I]But it has come under fire from some conservatives, including “Gang of 8″ member [B]Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz[/B]., who panned today’s Heritage release.[/I] [I]“Here we go again. New Heritage study claims huge cost for Immigration Reform. Ignores economic benefits. No dynamic scoring,” Flake [URL="https://twitter.com/JeffFlake/status/331435060756619264"]wrote on Twitter[/URL].[/I] [I]Other conservatives, including [B]Grover Norquist[/B] of Americans for Tax Reform and the Cato Institute, last month preemptively discounted the report’s findings.[/I] [I]“Robert Rector’s work does not speak for the conservative movement; in fact, it does not even speak for the Heritage Foundation,” Norquist wrote in a letter to House and Senate immigration staff in April.[/I] [I][B]Alex Nowrasteh, a fellow at the libertarian Cato Institute,[/B] cautioned in a post in April that the 2007 report was [B]riddled with errors[/B] that Heritage would be wise to address in its update. Nowrasteh cited several methodological choices that he said overstates the net cost of legalization.[/I] [I]“That 2007 report’s flawed methodology produced a grossly exaggerated cost to federal taxpayers of legalizing unauthorized immigrants while undercounting or discounting their positive tax and economic contributions – greatly affecting the 2007 immigration reform debate,” Nowrasteh wrote.[/I] [/QUOTE]

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