Gordon Hanson quoted in Union-Tribune
"Experts split on economic toll of illegal immigrants"
05/04/2010
Dean Calbreath,
The San Diego Union-Tribune
As Arizona last week unveiled the nation’s most restrictive set of immigration laws, local lawmakers chimed in on the benefits of keeping a tighter border.
Rep. Brian Bilbray, R-Carlsbad, suggested that the law — which authorizes police to demand identification from anyone they suspect may have entered the country illegally — wouldn’t involve ethnic profiling since there are other ways of identifying border jumpers, such as “the kind of dress … right down to the shoes.”
Rep. Duncan Hunter would go a step further. The Republican from Alpine reiterated his proposal to end the constitutional guarantee of citizenship to illegal immigrants’ children born in the United States.
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Professor Hanson is the director of the Center on Pacific Economies and professor of economics at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies and with the Department of Economics.
