The Economic Logic of Illegal Immigration
Council on Foreign Relations | So, we should make all immigration illegal, right?
It finds, among other things:
little evidence that legal immigration is economically preferable to illegal immigration. In fact. illegal immigration responds to market forces in ways that legal immigration does not ... [Legal immigration] is subject to arbitrary selection criteria and bureaucratic delays, which tend to disassociate legal inflows from US labor-market conditions ... [Illegal immigration] provides US businesses with the types of workers they want, when they want them, and where they want them.
Council on Foreign Relations | So, we should make all immigration illegal, right?
It finds, among other things:
little evidence that legal immigration is economically preferable to illegal immigration. In fact. illegal immigration responds to market forces in ways that legal immigration does not ... [Legal immigration] is subject to arbitrary selection criteria and bureaucratic delays, which tend to disassociate legal inflows from US labor-market conditions ... [Illegal immigration] provides US businesses with the types of workers they want, when they want them, and where they want them.
