Honda & Manzano: This Is the Year for Immigration Reform to Pass
http://www.rollcall.com/issues/55_87/ma_congressional_relations/42959-1.html
“The tide seems to be turning in favor of comprehensive immigration reform, despite populist trends that might suggest otherwise…A study conducted last month by University of California, Los Angeles, Professor Raul Hinojosa-Ojeda, for example, finds that any deportation plan of America’s undocumented immigrants would cost our country’s gross domestic product a whopping $2.6 trillion over the next 10 years. Conversely, if we embrace comprehensive immigration reform, we add $1.5 trillion to the U.S. gross domestic product over the next 10 years. Hinojosa-Ojeda also projected that the economy would benefit from a temporary worker program, which would raise the GDP by $792 billion.”
