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May 20, 2008
New Immigration Studies
Economic Impacts of Mass Deportations
The Houston Chronicle reports on a study that concluded that eliminating undocumented immigrants would cripple the national economy. Here is the study, which was supported by Houston business leaders. Download lals_141_impact_of_undocumented_workforce_may08.pdf it concludes that:
1. Removing the 8.1 million undocumented immigrants who work as bus boys, landscapers and other jobs, would cost nearly $1.8 trillion in annual spending.
2. Texas would be the second-hardest hit state after California if the state’s undocumented workers disappeared, removing $220.7 billion in spending within the Lone Star State.
The study was released Monday by the Americans for Immigration Reform, a group spearheaded by the Greater Houston Partnership.
Migration Policy Institute Report: Mexican Immigrants in the United States By Jeanne Batalova
The 1980 census recorded the foreign born from Mexico as the largest immigrant group in the United States, and this group remains the largest today. In 2006, more than 11.5 million Mexican immigrants resided in the United States, accounting for 30.7 percent of all US immigrants and one-tenth of the entire population born in Mexico. While Mexican immigrants are still settling in "traditional" destination states like California and Texas, over the last 10 to 15 years, the foreign born from Mexico, like other immigrant groups, have begun moving to "nontraditional" settlement areas, such as Georgia and North Carolina, as well as Midwestern states, such as Nebraska and Ohio. This spotlight focuses on the foreign born from Mexico residing in the United States, examining the population's size, geographic distribution, and socioeconomic characteristics using data from the US Census Bureau's 2006 American Community Survey (ACS) and 2000 Decennial Census, and the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Immigration Statistics (OIS). Download MPI-Spotlight-on-Mexican-Immigrants-April-2008.pdf
KJ
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So your saying that U.S. justice is something that should be for sale? How much would we save if we just let murderers and felons escape long prison sentences. I'm sure that if we put no one in jail we'd also save billions in operating costs. How much is a nation's sovereignty worth? We should put a price on it and sell it to the highest bidder? What kind of country is it that caves to the will of those who would profit by illegal enterprise? One could argue that drug dealers are an industry that if ultimately defeated, would also impact an economy. After all, kingpin drug dealers buy Mercedes Benz's, BMW's, big mansions, yachts, and private jets. Putting them out of business would certainly hurt the gated community that they live in, and the local stoes that they routinely frequent. Money should never triumph over principle of law, because once it does, our nation is no longer what our Founding Fathers foresaw it to be.
Posted by: Horace | May 20, 2008 7:08:04 PM
Horace is missing the point, and can’t see the forest for the trees. The point is that the United States is extremely complicit in the illegal presence of our undocumented workers, and by extension their families. Even most of the more extreme restictionists readily blame the government for their inaction, due to their complicacy in allowing entrance and colluding to restrict enforcement. With acquiescence comes responsibility. Our government has a moral and ethical responsibility to address this issue. Nobody is blaming the U.S. Government of complicacy in the illegal drug trade, (well, mostly anyway). One could rightly argue that the U.S. Government acted in their own best economic self-interest by turning a blind eye towards the presence of the undocumented workers. One could also rightly argue that the Founding Fathers in their infinite wisdom realized that the spirit and successful future of America rested on the Judeo Christian value of the work ethic, and that in a capitalist society, hard work matters more then ancestry.
Posted by: Robert Gittelson | May 25, 2008 8:30:48 PM
