Prevalent Politically Persuasive Social Science: Economic

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Social policy
Economics is usually termed as the prevalent politically persuasive social science and still economic advice is usually greatly irrelevant to most policy debates. This article reviews three newspaper articles on immigration social policy and offers personal opinion on the public policy and uses economic ideas learnt in class to discuss the likely economic consequence of the policy to the economy.
In his article in the Guardian dated Saturday, 3 December 2016, Siddiqui stated that the U.S senators are trying to defend undocumented immigrants as president-elect Donald Trump prepares for office. Two senators Dick Durbin and Lindsey Graham are drafting a legislation to inform Trump, who made a forceful tactic to immigration essentials during his campaign (Siddiqui). Unregulated immigrants who went to the United States as children have fears they might be deported following the incoming administration. In my personal opinion, I think this immigration policy is a test for the Americans as a nation on how they treat humanity. The immigration policy during Obama’s administration defended the sending home of immigrants who came to the country as children. Borrowing from the macroeconomic concepts learned in class, high unemployment rates may result due to increased number of undocumented immigrants in U.S.
In his article dated May 30, 2016, in the Los Angeles Times, O’Matz highlighted the proposed cuts in support to Cubans could save U.S taxpayers billions. In this report, the congressional analysts have estimated a total of $2.45 billion over the coming would be saved if the bill to ban the benefit for Cuban immigrants in the U.S. When the bill is passed most Cuban immigrants would not disqualify for refugee compensation, medical benefits, as well as other forms of refugee aids. Most of the Cuban immigrants flew to America after Obama’s administration through its immigration policy revived diplomatic ties with Cuba at the end of 2014 (O’Matz). From my perspective, the immigration policy here aligns with the economics i...