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Loading ...Harvard Report shows Illegal Immigration very costly to Arizona
Recently a Maricopa County Attorney hired a Harvard Economist and consultant to study data collected in 2005 regarding Arizona wages and Illegal Immigration. The data was found to contradict a previous report done in 2004 in which a University of Arizona academic attempted to quantity the impact of illegal immigration on the state resources. The U of A info back in 2004 was found to be "not sufficiently thorough" according to a recent article talking about the new Harvard Report.
You can find the article here, but in short, it basically says the contrary of the 2004 report done by the U of A. It states that Illegal Immigration costs that state of Arizona "at least $1.4 billion dollars." A large part of this cost is thought to exist due to the expansion of Arizona's labor pool and lowering of wages for competing American-born Citizens.
The bottom line is that this report proves something we all presumed and already knew- illegal immigration drives down wages! What a concept.
One more thing, not that it matters, but that report cost the Maricopa County Attorneys office a nice piece of change-$625 per hour and was completed in "a couple of weeks" states the article.
Posted January 10th, 2008 by Vincent - Posted in Immigration, Wages | | 0 Comments
