The Costs and Benefits of Immigration Enforcement

The U.S. government would raise the social floor for the entire economy if it created a pathway to legal status for unauthorized immigrants in the country. Working paper presented at the Baker Institute Latin America Initiative conference "Immigration Reform: A System for the 21st Century."

By Raul Hinojosa-Ojeda, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Chicana and Chicano Studies, and Director, North American Integration and Development Center, Naval Postgraduate School