An independent study shows the claims that implementing the Alabama State anti-immigration law would increase job opportunities for local U.S citizens have not been entirely accurate. A recently conducted research based on figures provided by the United States government has shown that the law, that introduced the concept of self deportation of illegal immigrants, has proven to be least effective on generating employment opportunities for local Alabamans. Furthermore, the implementation of the law since October, 2011, has adversely affected the local entrepreneurs and businesses which have been experiencing labor shortages and increased costs of training new laborers. After the law was implemented, thousands of illegal immigrants were deprived of all sorts of public benefits and were compelled to relocate to other states, ultimately deporting themselves out of Alabama.
According to the figures provided by the study, 120,000 illegal immigrants, belonging to the Hispanic community in U.S, lived in Alabama before the law was introduced, 95,000 of them being in the overall workforce. The total figure made up 2.5 percent of the whole Alabama population, and 4.2 percent of the state?s workforce.
After the implementation of the law, which was aimed at creating self deportation by removing maximum number of benefits for undocumented immigrants, almost all of these Hispanic illegal immigrants left the state. The Republican sponsor of the law, Micky Hammon, had said that the law was designed so as to make conditions difficult enough for the illegal aliens to leave the state altogether. The purpose of doing this was to vacate job positions for legal immigrants and U.S citizens in Alabama.
But, in contrast with the above expectations, the purpose of the law according to the research remains unfulfilled. Although the unemployment rate in the state has declined from 8.8 percent in October last year to this years? 8.5 percent, the local Alabamans remain unemployed. The reason for this is that after the departure of illegal immigrant workforce from Alabama, who did not have work permits, local businesses had to incur extensive costs to train new workers. For this reason, with the intention of minimizing their marginal costs, they started recruiting legal immigrants and refugees on lower wage rates. As U.S citizens had refused to work on such low wages, this seemed to them to be the most appropriate choice under the circumstances, as even those Hispanic workers who had work permits had left the state pursuing their community.
Many businesses had to face the shortage of workers after the implementation of law. An overall decline in workforce gave room for the unemployment rate to adjust with the new market conditions, which consequently decreased the unemployment rate without having a single effect on the local U.S citizens? unemployment problem.
The current conditions point in only one direction that discriminating laws that encourage oppression and antagonism seldom find success after implementation. If the state administration had adopted a more practical approach without any oppression against illegal immigrants, then the chances of success would have been more than this. U.S immigration authorities must make sure that biased regulations like this one must be avoided in a society which is home to a large number of immigrants from all ethnicities.
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