re: Would this immigration idea work?

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I am sick of hearing this arguement. How about you back this up with proof on the damage it would cause?

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These immigrants grease the economy – they expand the productivity of the labor market, increase the US’s comparative advantage in the market, lower prices, while at the same time increasing demand. To remove them would have far reaching consequences.

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Restrict trade and cries of protectionism resound. Suggest linking labor standards to trade and it's protectionism in disguise. Limit capital flows and the International Monetary Fund is on your back. But restrict people flows? That's just an accepted exercise of national sovereignty! During the last few decades, when most countries reduced barriers to trade in goods and services and liberalized financial capital markets, most also sought to limit immigration. - Richard Freeman

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A Cost - Benefit Analysis of the New Alabama Immigration Law

Daniel Griswold Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement Committee

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Consider the agricultural sector, in which an estimated 800,000 to 1 million undocumented immigrants work each year to harvest American crops. Does anybody seriously believe that if we could deport every one of those workers tomorrow, that a sufficient number of American workers would line up to take their place? It’s safe to say most of those jobs would go unfilled. If wages were hiked significantly, many of those jobs would simply disappear, most likely to be replaced by imported farm goods grown and harvested in other countries. Without immigrant workers, the most likely scenario is that we would simply produce less agricultural output as a nation. This would mean not only a direct loss of manual, on-the-farm jobs but a ripple effect of job losses in upstream and downstream sectors such as management, processing, packaging, distribution, and marketing. According to estimates from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, there are 3.1 related jobs off the farm for every job on the farm. Eliminating the on-farm jobs would put at risk many more jobs paying middle-class wages and employing native-born American workers.

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Does Immigration Grease the Wheels of the Labor Market?

If you're to lazy to read publications

Economic Benefits of Immigration