San Antonio Express News: Why Immigrants Come
media mentionWhat’s needed is a change of policy and a change of focus. The objective should not be to decrease the supply of labor needed in the farm fields and hospitality industries but rather to create a program and a process whereby employers can legally hire these undocumented workers to do the jobs they can’t find American workers to do.
According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), undocumented workers currently pay $11.6 billion annually in state and local taxes. Read more