Immigration

The economics of immigration policy

Submitted by Larry on 1 June 2019 - 5:06pm

In the latest "wait, what?" move from the current American President, apparently the US is going to impose a tariff on all goods from Mexico, its second-largest trading partner, until Mexico "does something" about the illegal immigration problem along the US-Mexico border.

Let's leave aside for the moment that it's almost certainly just a distraction from something else.

Let's leave aside for the moment that, just like the Chinese tariffs, it's almost certainly going to do as much if not more harm to US companies than to Mexico, especially as many companies were in the process of moving manufacturing from China to Mexico.