The scapegoating of immigrants by some of our political leaders is wrongheaded and contrary to the facts. Based upon estimates from the American Community Survey (ACS), immigrants paid $382.9 billion in federal and $196.3 billion in state and local taxes in 2022. Undocumented immigrants paid $96.7 billion of that total, an amount that would grow to $136.9 billion if they received legal status. As a moral issue, however, we cannot continue to accept the hard labor and taxes of immigrants while also exploiting them and blaming them for our problems. In short, immigrants are part of the solution to, not the cause of, our country’s social and economic challenges.