Moreover, the educational and medical systems of California would be burdened with expensive reporting requirements. From a political stand point, Kemp and Bennett noted that immigrants offered Republican growth opportunity. The Republican party should offer a clear, sharp contrast with that unprincipled political posture. It is rare when a political party is afforded this kind of opportunity to expand its base.'' In December 1995, Dr. Julian Simon and the CATO Institute published a review of the recent mountain of scientific literature on the effects of immigration. The fraction of the population that is foreign born is far smaller than it has been in the past.
Immigrants do take jobs, but they also create jobs by the expenditure of the earnings.
In total, immigrants do not increase the unemployment rate or wages, even among black and Hispanics. Simon quotes a 1986 specific study of California by Kevin McCarthy and R. Burciaga Valdez of the Rand Corporation. They found little negative labor market effects. Among legal immigrants, the welfare rate was slightly higher than for the general population primarily because of the refugee status of a large fraction of legal immigrants. Illegal immigrants, for fear of apprehension, receive welfare at a far lower rate.