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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (563446)4/28/2010 12:00:06 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (3) of 1576492
 
Ted, > A University of Arizona study released earlier this year concluded that economic output would drop 8.2 percent annually if noncitizen foreign-born workers were removed from the labor force. Researchers estimate about two-thirds of the workers in that category are in the state illegally.

Shoddy journalism.

a) That "two-thirds" estimate doesn't have a source.

Its an article, not a master's thesis. More info from AZ State:

knowledge.wpcarey.asu.edu

b) Workers who are here illegally can be replaced with legal residents. If there aren't any, we can increase the legal immigration limits.

Maybe increasing limits is a possibility but there is the problem that Americans won't do certain jobs:

"The idea that American workers are being robbed of their jobs by immigrant workers is false, according to Daniel T. Griswold, Director of the Center for Trade Policy Studies at the Cato Institute, a free-trade think tank. "Immigrants aren't like us," he said. "That's why they're beneficial. Americans are much better educated on whole, which is why Americans are largely unwilling to do the jobs immigrant workers do."

Data bear out Griswold's explanation. In a report titled "Immigrants in Arizona: Fiscal and Economic Impacts," Gans demonstrates that immigrants make up 12 percent of the state's total population, but 55 percent of the population with less than a high school diploma. "Immigrants are primarily low-skilled workers," she said. "In contrast, relatively few native-born Arizonans are low-skilled.""

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