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Posted on 04/07/08

Time to shell out for that green card

OTTAWA -- Nobel Prize-winning economist Gary S. Becker says the United States should consider selling - for $50,000 (U.S.) - the legal right to immigrate to the U.S. He says the price should be the same for everyone (although he proposes a discounted price for people already in the country illegally). That global price, he says, should apply to all immigrants, whether rich-class or huddled mass.

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