Harvard economist George Borjas, who studied the issue, found no net economic benefit from mass migration from the Third World. The added costs of schooling, health care, welfare, social security, and prisons, plus the added pressure on land, water, and power resources, exceeded the taxes that immigrants contribute. The National Bureau of Economic Research puts the cost of immigration at $80.4 billion in 1995.59 Economist Donald Huddle of Rice University estimates that the net annual cost of immigration will reach $108 billion by 2006.60 What are the benefits, then, that justify the risks we
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