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In this article author talks about the economical influence of immigrant, the burden they bring to the taxpayers and the way one of the leading economists Gordon Haston proposes to solve that problem. So the Haston's idea is to impose taxes on employer for hiring immigrants, thus burden would be on employers and it would ease up the political opposition for immigration, and regular people's taxes will be lower. But in this way the employment of low-skilled immigrants is generating an externality, and that the employer who make up one side of these exchanges are not internalizing the cost of this externality. So the question is who's supposed to pay for immigrants? That question causes the huge discussions in political life of countries, especially this year during the election in US. A lot of people were arguing whether they choose Barack Obama who helps poor people, or to decrease the amount of money they get and choose Romney. It's an important question for any family that pays tax, so I choose that article.