This is the Cando Daily Podcast for Tuesday, April 17, 2012.

I'm Caleb Brown.

The debate over Arizona's tough immigration law have focused primarily on whether it's

constitutional.

Constitutional or not, the law has several unintended economic consequences that could

harm even supporters of ending illegal immigration.

Alex Narasta, a policy analyst at the Cato Institute offers his thoughts.

Well, most people when they think of the law, think of SB 1070,

they think of the show me your paper's portions of the law, but what they don't realize

is more than half of the law actually has to deal with punishing businesses or punishing

people who want to employ other people. So the business aspects of the law,

and the harm that it causes to economic growth

are underestimated in the public's mind.

Just to give you a few examples of that, sections six and seven of the law are punishments for,

include punishments for knowingly or intentionally hiring undocumented immigrants.

Now for a second such offense during a probationary period,

all of the business's licenses are revoked.

This portion of the law, which carries over from a little bit older law that passed in 2007 is known as the business death penalty and it unfortunately is constitutional according to a court case last year that went all the way to the

Supreme Court. What SB 1070 does is update a lot of these provisions, make them

a little worse, and gives them a little more teeth. For people who aren't

business people,

if you're a restaurant who's hired some people illegally,

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