This is a must read for everyone before making decisions on who to vote for in upcoming elections.
A Harvard professor who has spent the last 30 years studying immigration – and its effects on the United States – wrote this piece for Politico. His message comes as no surprise to anyone with even a bit of common sense.
When you open up the floodgates and let everyone into the country, there are consequences. And, as usual, it’s the working class who feel the effects the most.
“Both low- and high-skilled natives are affected by the influx of immigrants. But because a disproportionate percentage of immigrants have few skills, it is low-skilled American workers, including many blacks and Hispanics, who have suffered most from this wage dip. The monetary loss is sizable. The typical high school dropout earns about $25,000 annually. According to census data, immigrants admitted in the past two decades lacking a high school diploma have increased the size of the low-skilled workforce by roughly 25 percent. As a result, the earnings of this particularly vulnerable group dropped by between $800 and $1,500 each year.”
Who benefits the most from unfettered immigration – company owners who are looking for ways to pay their employees less and less every year.
“We don’t need to rely on complex statistical calculations to see the harm being done to some workers. Simply look at how employers have reacted. A decade ago, Crider Inc., a chicken processing plant in Georgia, was raided by immigration agents, and 75 percent of its workforce vanished over a single weekend. Shortly after, Crider placed an ad in the local newspaper announcing job openings at higher wages. Similarly, the flood of recent news reports on abuse of the H-1B visa program shows that firms will quickly dismiss their current tech workforce when they find cheaper immigrant workers.”