October 16, 2005

New Immigration Measure In San Bernardino Looks Pretty Good

One of the largest anti-illegal immigration groups in California is Save our State which was founded by Joseph Turner in 2004.

Mr. Turner has brought the fight to San Bernardino, California in the form of a new city ballot measure. According to a story from the local online paper sbsun.com [Anti-illegal immigration measure in early stages in SB by Kelly Rayburn 10/16/05] the new measure would:

Marginal Revelation

Marginal Revolutions links to an NBER report attempting to show that immmigration does not harm real wages in the US. Tyler Cowen writes "The best of current investigations continue to support the conclusion that immigration does not hurt American real wages. "[ Marginal Revolution: More evidence on immigration and wages]

This is based on an NBER working paper that says