Once Trump deports the criminal aliens and other troublemakers, we will need to have more legal immigrant workers to fill our labor force needs given the baby boomers’ retirement. One reason LEGAL immigration is so beneficial is the age-profile of the immigrants.

As the population pyramid below shows, the age profile of the foreign born is that they are mostly in their most productive working years. Most immigrants arrive in their 20s or 30s.  Few arrive as young children and fewer still as retirees.

Immigrants are especially beneficial to the Social Security system because they pay the tax, but they rarely have parents here who collect benefits.  The Social Security actuaries score this as a more than $1 trillion net benefit to the trust fund.