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How Else Can We Encourage Illegal Immigration?

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Via Justin Wolfers

Justin Wolfers observes how the minimum wage divides the economics profession.

Now let's up the ante: how many economists agree that raising the minimum wage while also providing some form of amnesty to previous waves of illegal immigrants will together create new incentives for fresh waves of illegals seeking to underbid the newly raised minimum wage?

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David Frum

David Frum is a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Daily Beast and a CNN contributor. He is the author of eight books, including most recently the e-book WHY ROMNEY LOST and his first novel Patriots, published in April 2012.

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