In the Cardoza Law Review, an article entitled: “The Economic Impact of Local Immigration Regulation: An Empirical Analysis," by Huyen Pham and Pham Hoang Van discusses the economic impact of anti-immigration laws.
The anti-immigration laws were of many different forms such as those requiring police enforcement of federal immigration laws, those restricting housing and employment to legal immigration status, and those restricting government transactions to English only.
Based on statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau, such enacted laws resulted in a 1 to 2% drop in employment and a payroll drop between .8 and 1.9%. These laws also hurt specific industries such as grocery and liquor stores.
The article concludes that local immigration regulation should be based on empirical evidence of the law’s effects. Emphasis on economic costs for enforcement of laws and the effects anti-immigration laws have on employment should be taken into consideration.
View the full journal article here: http://web.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.lib.utexas.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=bf5920e4-3bb8-4f2a-9844-41f9d8834c32%40sessionmgr114&vid=6&hid=123
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