ARIZONA TUITION IMMIGRANTS
The United States faces one of the highest immigration rates in the world currently, with a majority of the immigrants entering the country illegally. The state of Arizona is a borderline state that has illegal immigrants and has come up with a model that considers the effects of immigration on workers, capital owners, and aggregate welfare. In the article, the state of Arizona has different tuition rates that are dependent on whether one is an immigrant, either legal or illegal, or a US citizen.
Immigrants have significant effects on a state; for example, the increase in labor means that the real wage rates will decline due to the excess supply of labor compared to the scarce demand for labor. Expanding eligibility requirements for the tuition program means that more immigrants will be able to access higher education, thus increasing their competency in the job market. The US, however, consists mostly of immigrants considering they had an open border in the past, improving the welfare of the source country and destination country. The increase in welfare is a result of the immigrants’ workforce, although some of it is remitted when they send it back to their relatives.
If the bill introduced to reduce tuition rates for high school graduates in the state passed, it would mean increased enrolment rates, especially of the illegal immigrants considering that there are disagreements on tuition fees that the immigrants are supposed to pay. Therefore, the article on tuition paid by immigrants provides evidence for the given immigration model considering the various factors in play, such as the movement of labor and capital between countries as a result of immigration and, in our case, tuition fees.
Immigration has pros and cons, and it is all dependent on the case at hand. In the case of tuition fees for higher education, subsidizing them for immigrants might better them and the country at large since it benefits when they are done with school and start giving back to society.