Re: pk on immigration reform

[C Ruiz <Cseniornyc@xxxxxxx>]

In a message dated 3/27/2006 1:08:56 P.M.  Eastern Standard Time,
michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Does anybody know  what sort of studies he has in mind?  Were they written by
Tom  Tancredo
Krugman does mention its source: "The most authoritative recent  study of
this effect, by George Borjas and Lawrence Katz of Harvard, estimates  that U.S.
high school dropouts would earn as much as 8 percent more if it  weren't for
Mexican immigration".
George Borjas has made a life time career  out  of writing anti-immigrant and
anti-union work on labor economics. A  student of right wingers Jacob Mincer
and Gary Becker at Columbia in the mid  seventies. After it, he was quickly
hired by Harvard's Kennedy School of  Government for its "human resources"
program.
Immigration reform is going to  be the launching pad for a raging political
battlefield in the US as the right  wingers become more vociferous and bolder
in their goals and as the pro  immigrant labor side also becomes more
confrontational  in its response.  Things will be heating up, no doubt.
Cristobal  Senior