{"id":155758,"date":"2010-01-08T12:43:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T17:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/legalizing-immigrant-workers-would-add-15-trillion-to-the-us-economy-2010-1"},"modified":"2010-01-08T12:43:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T17:43:00","slug":"chasing-down-illegal-workers-costs-america-1-5-trillion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/155758","title":{"rendered":"Chasing Down Illegal Workers Costs America $1.5 Trillion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=4b47676d0000000000d72762&amp;maxX=400\" border=\"0\" alt=\"chart1212\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left; padding: 15px 15px 15px 0;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\ntweetmeme_source = 'moneygame'; tweetmeme_service = 'bit.ly';\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/tweetmeme.com\/i\/scripts\/button.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>The latest research from the Center for American Progress finds that the U.S. could reap $1.5 trillion in economic benefits by legalizing its vast population of unauthorized workers.<\/p>\n<p>Essentially, they argue that the costs of enforcing a broken system are massive, and do nothing in the long-term.<strong> Thus legalize them.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/issues\/2010\/01\/pdf\/immigrationeconreport.pdf\">CAP:<\/a> The current enforcement-only approach to unauthorized immigration is not cost effec- tive and has not deterred unauthorized immigrants from coming to the United States when jobs are available. Rather, enforcement-only policies have wasted billions of taxpayer dollars while pushing unauthorized migration further underground. And these policies have produced a host of unintended consequences: more deaths among border crossers, greater demand for people smugglers, less &ldquo;circular migration&rdquo; in favor of more &ldquo;permanent settlement&rdquo; among unauthorized immigrants, and further depressed wages in low-wage labor markets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Significant declines in unauthorized immigration have historically occurred only during downturns in the U.S. economy when U.S. labor demand is damp- ened. And declining birth rates in Mexico will likely accomplish what tens of billions of dollars in border enforcement clearly have not: a reduction in the supply of migrants from Mexico who are available for jobs in the United States.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=4b476a9d00000000009e9483\" border=\"0\" alt=\"chart1212\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/issues\/2010\/01\/pdf\/immigrationeconreport.pdf\">Read the full Center of American Progress report here &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/paul.kedrosky.com\/\">Paul Kedrosky<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/legalizing-immigrant-workers-would-add-15-trillion-to-the-us-economy-2010-1#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/obama-tells-immigration-reformers-they-are-at-the-back-of-the-line-2009-8\">Obama Tells Immigration Reformers They Are At The Back Of The Line<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/how-to-predict-foreclosure-hotspots-look-for-immigrants-especially-from-latin-america-2009-5\">Immigrants Hammered By Foreclosures<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/civil-unrest-hostage-standoff-at-ny-immigration-center-2009-4\">12-13 Killed In Hostage Standoff At Binghamton Immigration Center<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/exp8prZeOiQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest research from the Center for American Progress finds that the U.S. could reap $1.5 trillion in economic benefits by legalizing its vast population of unauthorized workers. Essentially, they argue that the costs of enforcing a broken system are massive, and do nothing in the long-term. Thus legalize them. CAP: The current enforcement-only approach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}