Gordon Hanson's Illegal Immigration Research Referenced
CSUMB goodie giveaway targets immigrants
10/20/2011
Claudia Melendez,
The Monterey County Herald
It is one of the great American conversations: Do immigrants contribute to the economy? Or do they take more than their fair share?
If immigrants are in the United States illegally, do they take even more?
To bring attention to what they say is the high cost of illegal immigration, the Otter College Republicans of CSUMB held a bake "sale" outside the campus library on Wednesday.
Hannah Plummer, chair of the student organization, arrived at 11 a.m. with a folding table and boxes of goodies. The club got together to bake festive chocolate muffins with vanilla frosting. A group supporter donated apple cinnamon snickerdoodles. Also on the menu was pumpkin spice cake.
Plummer and club members Matt Bolner, Christine Adams and Laura Benitez arranged the sweets on a folding table and taped green posters on the wall with duct tape. The posters said "Illegal immigration bake sale" and "Cost: $1. Contribution: citizens, legal immigrants: $2, illegal immigrants: free."
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Gordon Hanson is director of the Center on Emerging and Pacific Economies and professor of economics at UC San Diego, where he holds faculty positions in the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies and the Department of Economics. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a co-editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics. Prior to joining UCSD in 2001, he was on the economics faculty at the University of Michigan (1998-2001) and at the University of Texas (1992-1998).
