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Monday, January 12, 2009

Lessons in Opportunity Cost: Immigration

This is an important lesson in opportunity cost, focusing on the allocation of resources to immigration enforcement. As we expend more budgeted resources towards deportation, and quota enforcement, the more difficult it becomes to control the smuggling of drugs, weapons, and criminal activities across the border. Maybe a more sensible policy on quotas and their enforcement will come, say, in the next decade or so.

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