Would Cracking Down on Illegal Immigration Really Cut Unemployment?

This article proves that unemployment is not helped with fewer immigrants here. - - Donna Poisl

by DANIEL INDIVIGLIO

"And here is something else that we have to do that will help the economy. We have to build the fence on America's southern border and get a grip on dealing with our immigration problem." This was one of the responses from Rep. Michelle Bachmann during Wednesday night's Republican Presidential Debate when asked how she would create jobs as quickly as possible. This is a sentiment shared by many Americans: when there are people in this country illegally, why should they be able to take some of the precious jobs available? In practice, however, most of these jobs aren't all that precious.

Elizabeth Dwoskin at Bloomberg wrote a very thought-provoking article on this topic this week. She found that Americans don't want many of those jobs that illegal immigrants have. She shows this through a sort of case study of Alabama. The state recently passed a law that allows the police to question people they suspect are in the U.S. illegally. As you might guess, illegal immigrants are fleeing the state.
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