Everyone has her own point of view on immigration reform. Indeed it is a policy area fraught with emotion and sentiment. Both sides debate migrant workers’ effect on low skilled jobs, but research has not shown natives to be harmed by low skilled immigrant labor. We also debate whether social services are used disproportionately used by migrant workers. Again, evidence suggests that immigrants pay more into the social security system than they will receive, and their taxes cover on net the social services they usually don’t even use. Migrant workers pump an estimated $7 billion into the United States economy and have made an enormous cultural contribution to American society. Thus, it is hard to believe that a proposed solution actually taken into account by a sizeable portion of the American public involves building a wall between the U.S. and Mexico spanning four states.


