Gordon Hanson Quoted in News Feature on Illegal Immigration
Costs And Benefits Of Illegal Immigration Are Unequally Distributed
07/23/2010
Alison St. John,
KPBS News
The immigration issue sparks strong views. That’s because powerful interest groups have much at stake in either changing things or keeping things as they are. As part of our Envision series "Crossing the Line - Border Stories," we look at the winners and losers under the current system.
An estimated 200,000 illegal immigrants are working in San Diego County. They bring both benefits and costs. UCSD economics professor Gordon Hanson says the problem is those benefits and costs are not evenly distributed.
“Those benefits go primarily to one group of individuals,” he said, “and that is employers in industries that hire illegal immigrants intensively: construction, agriculture, hospitality and tourism.”
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Gordon Hanson's faculty web page
