Who, Exactly, Is Doing the Exploiting?
8 March 2007
Editor, Boston Globe
To the Editor:
Re your editorial on immigration-officials' raid on the Michael Bianco, Inc. plant in New Bedford ("The Mess After the Raid," March 8): As a result of this raid, Uncle Sam is now detaining 350 allegedly illegal immigrants against their will.
While you identify some genuine inconsistencies in immigration policy, you slip into an inconsistency of your own when you agree with the government that "Company officials should be prosecuted for exploiting workers." Who, in this case, is the party inflicting most harm on these 350 foreigners - the company that employed and paid them, or the government that is now imprisoning them until they are forcibly deported?
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University
Editor, Boston Globe
To the Editor:
Re your editorial on immigration-officials' raid on the Michael Bianco, Inc. plant in New Bedford ("The Mess After the Raid," March 8): As a result of this raid, Uncle Sam is now detaining 350 allegedly illegal immigrants against their will.
While you identify some genuine inconsistencies in immigration policy, you slip into an inconsistency of your own when you agree with the government that "Company officials should be prosecuted for exploiting workers." Who, in this case, is the party inflicting most harm on these 350 foreigners - the company that employed and paid them, or the government that is now imprisoning them until they are forcibly deported?
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University
Posted by Don Boudreaux on
Sunday November 4, 2007 at 1:00pm