Something's fishy with that graphic. It says that there are 1.5e5 "undocumented immigrants" in the Seattle area. Next to it says that "immigrants" paid 1.7e9 in state and local taxes in 2014. At more than $11k taxes paid/undocumented immigrant (including children!), either those undocumented folks are really rich or the "immigrant" in the last graphic didn't refer to the "undocumented" but to the 20% here who were "foreign born".
This is likely a deliberate attempt to mislead by obfuscation. I have no objection to the legal defense fund (it's a good and worthy idea) but lying -and that kind of deliberate obfuscation IS lying- to achieve it says a great deal about the people advocating for it.
This is likely a deliberate attempt to mislead by obfuscation. I have no objection to the legal defense fund (it's a good and worthy idea) but lying -and that kind of deliberate obfuscation IS lying- to achieve it says a great deal about the people advocating for it.