Lack of an Immigration Policy -- The Costs Keep Rising
Alan Tonelson
Monday, October 31, 2005
Number of training hours lost at Barry M. Goldwater Marine Corps Range, Arizona, from dealing with incursions by illegal immigrants, 2004: more than 1,250
Number of training days this figure represents: more than 50
Source: National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2006, Report of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives on H.R. 1815, Report 109-089, 109th Congress, 1st Session, May 20, 2005, p. 309, http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=109_cong_reports&docid=f:hr089.109.pdf. Special thanks to William R. Hawkins, USBIC
Alan Tonelson is a Research Fellow at the U.S. Business & Industry Educational Foundation and the author of The Race to the Bottom: Why a Worldwide Worker Surplus and Uncontrolled Free Trade are Sinking American Living Standards (Westview Press).