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Arizona workers lose $1.4 billion in wages a year because companies here hire illegal entrants, according to a study commissioned by the Maricopa County Attorney's Office.
George Borjas, a professor of economic and social policy at Harvard University, also concluded that foreigners in the state illegally have reduced the employment rate of legal Arizona residents.
Study: Entrants cost AZ workers $1.4B a year | www.azstarnet.com ® (http://www.azstarnet.com/metro/219519 - broken link)
David Selden, lead attorney for businesses seeking to overturn the law, on Monday dismissed the study as meaningless.
He said it makes irrational assumptions that if all the illegal workers left, they would be replaced immediately by legal U.S. residents moving here from other states. Even if that eventually were true, he said, Arizona's economy would be in a shambles by the time that happened.
Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas conceded that the study, paid for by taxpayers, did not look at what benefits there might be to the state economy by having so many illegal immigrants and their families here, both in filling jobs and paying taxes. Selden instead wants Wake to pay attention to another study, which was done by Judith Gans, immigration policy program manager at the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy at the University of Arizona. Gans' report concluded that the costs of illegal immigration in Arizona are more than offset by the state tax revenues generated by their presence.
This study begs to differ.
Study: Entrants cost AZ workers $1.4B a year | www.azstarnet.com ® (http://www.azstarnet.com/metro/219519 - broken link)
So an Attorney for businesses and an Immigration program manager say the Economic professor from Harvard is wrong.
Yea Ok LOL
No he didn't say it, this study came to the conclusion.
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Selden instead wants Wake to pay attention to another study, which was done by Judith Gans, immigration policy program manager at the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy at the University of Arizona. Gans' report concluded that the costs of illegal immigration in Arizona are more than offset by the state tax revenues generated by their presence.
Besides the other study didn't look at the positive impacts of the illegal immigrants
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Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas conceded that the study, paid for by taxpayers, did not look at what benefits there might be to the state economy by having so many illegal immigrants and their families here, both in filling jobs and paying taxes.
the only thing we are positive is.. illegals are bleeding American taxpayers dry! Wage reductions, welfare, healthcare, amnesty illegals, prisons, autotheft, drugs, courtsystems, county jails, education, dea/ins/bp/law inforcement/special mexican gang units/translaters,transportation for deportation. American lives lost .. police, dea agents, border patrol agents, American deaths due to illegal mexican drunk drivers... not millions, but BILLIONS of American tax dollars to pay for illegal mexicans, not even counting the American tax dollars that are given to mexico... It will NOT matter how much we pay out.. it will NEVER be enough, never! Millions of illegals will keep crossing the border and Americans will have to keep paying for it,, IF we don't put a stop to it!
No he didn't say it, this study came to the conclusion.
Besides the other study didn't look at the positive impacts of the illegal immigrants
Ah, BN - school overcrowding - a "positive"? Hospitals / clinics closing - a "positive"? Net cost to taxpayers of over 1 Billion Dollars - a "positive"? Increasing gang activity from illegals - a "positive"? Etc
Sorry, there are few, if any "positive impacts" of illegal immigration. Only negatives
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