This is part of a six way debate on how immigration enforcement would affect food costs. Martin, a true economist for the University of California at Davis blasts the idea that prices would rise very much. However, there could also be opportunistic, or even politically motivated, gouging.

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Calculating the Costs and Benefits

Updated August 18, 2011, 01:37 PM

Philip Martin, a labor economist at the University of California, Davis, is the author, most recently, of “Importing Poverty? Immigration and the Changing Face of Rural America.â€