Alabama's Disgraceful Immigration Law is Bad for the Economy (Forbes)

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E.D. Kain, Contributor
Washington
10/07/2011 @ 6:02PM

Alabama’s tomato crop is rotting due to the mass exodus of immigrant workers following that state’s draconian new anti-immigrant law. Contrary to popular sentiment, immigration is good for the economy.

I wish people could understand this very simple fact: immigration is good for business. Indeed, an open-borders policy that freed up movement of labor across the globe could boost world GDP one and a half times over , far more than any further efforts to free up trade barriers. Sadly, in state after state, nativist sentiment beats out economic sense time and time again.

In Alabama, state lawmakers have ignored economic reality and implemented a new law that makes life as an immigrant in that state unbearable and cut across by fear ...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/10/07/alabamas-disgraceful-immigration-law-is-bad-for-the-economy/