Do Immigrants Want to Free-Ride or Not?
21 April 2006
The Editor, New York Times
229 West 43rd St.
New York, NY 10036
To the Editor:
Your report "U.S. Crackdown Set Over Hiring of Immigrants" (April 21) could instead be headlined "U.S. Steps Up Effort to Stop Industrious People from Working."
Until Uncle Sam reverses his long-standing policy of actively restricting immigrants' employment opportunities, assertions that immigration must be curtailed because immigrants come here to sponge off of American taxpayers will ring hollow.
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University
The Editor, New York Times
229 West 43rd St.
New York, NY 10036
To the Editor:
Your report "U.S. Crackdown Set Over Hiring of Immigrants" (April 21) could instead be headlined "U.S. Steps Up Effort to Stop Industrious People from Working."
Until Uncle Sam reverses his long-standing policy of actively restricting immigrants' employment opportunities, assertions that immigration must be curtailed because immigrants come here to sponge off of American taxpayers will ring hollow.
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University
Posted by Don Boudreaux on
Tuesday February 6, 2007 at 7:41am