• Title: LOS INMIGRANTES: ESTIMULO A LA ECONOMIA.
• Guest: Jesús Martínez Saldaña
• Additional Guests: Ramón León
• Host: Samuel Orozco
• Date: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2009
• Description: IMMIGRANTS STIMULATE THE ECONOMY. Conservative talking heads wrap up a radio-thon on Capitol Hill to put the heat on policy makers who favor plans to legalize immigrants and draw attention to the public costs of immigration.
• Genre: News
• Location: San Francisco, CA
• Program Number: 5895
• Producer: Samuel Orozco
• Progam Number: 5895
• Publisher: Radio Bilingue
• Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License
• Subject: Economic Development
• Year: 2009
• Program Name: la_090916.mp3
• Length: 59:03 minutes (54.08 MB)
• Format: Mono 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)

IMMIGRANTS STIMULATE THE ECONOMY. Conservative talking heads wrap up a radio-thon on Capitol Hill to put the heat on policy makers who favor plans to legalize immigrants and draw attention to the public costs of immigration. Meantime, new research shows that immigrant entrepreneurs, consumers and workers are an economic powerhouse and can play a key role in the economic recovery. Some argue that providing immigrants the opportunity to earn legal status would add billions of dollars to the economy and revitalize the nation on the long run.

Guests: Jesús Martínez Saldaña, Academic researcher, Co-author of study on Latino businesses in rural states, Fresno, CA; Ramón León, President, CEO, Latino Economic Development Center, Minneapolis, MN., http://www.ledc-mn.org