INQUIRER.net
First Posted 11:32:00 04/10/2008
SAN FRANCISCO - As conservative groups in mainstream and grassroots America press for tighter legislation on immigration, some business and economic experts question the wisdom of purging illegal immigrants and restricting immigration into the country altogether.
According to them, increasing the caps and relaxing the rules on legal immigration instead are viable alternatives to heavy enforcement of laws which only tend to drive illegal aliens deeper underground.
“The real question is not whether we have enough resources to host immigrants, but if the U.S. economy can afford at all not to take in more of them,” said Angelo Amador, director of immigration policy for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, in a teleconference on employer-sanctioning immigration legislation organized by the New America Media recently.
Continued...
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment