Mar 12, 2025 - News
Immigrants in Tennessee paid $4.4B in taxes
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The country's 47.8 million immigrants paid nearly $652 billion in taxes in 2023, per a recent analysis, with undocumented immigrants paying nearly $90 billion of that total.
Why it matters: The numbers underscore how immigrants, both documented and otherwise, contribute to the U.S. economy and government services, even as the Trump administration looks to increase mass detention and deportation.
Zoom in: In Tennessee, about 431,300 immigrants paid $4.4 billion in taxes.
- That's more than $10,000 per immigrant.
How it works: These figures come from a recent report by the American Immigration Council, a nonprofit advocacy group, and are based on 2023 census data.