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Yes, Immigration Hurts American Workers
The candidates tell drastically different stories about immigration. They’re both skipping half the truth.
By GEORGE J. BORJAS September/October 2016
Duh!
luee! We get it!
You hate and fear black and brown people and you think there are hordes of them teeming at the border waiting to swarm in like the zombies in WORLD WAR Z.
Just pull the covers over your head and squinty your eyes real tight and it will all be alright.
On the contrary, I love the American worker and what all the labor unions did to improve working conditions and made the workplace the most enjoyable and productive one in the world. I am for the native workers of all races and creeds. It is the blue collar worker who is being squeezed out and is having his power and voice taken away. The one percenters want to use the failures and self-loathers to continue to castrate the labor movement by allowing cheap labor from backward third world areas in. Someone used GEORGE J. BORJAS as a defender of open borders he certainly was not, in his own words.
No, it's not the immigrants squeezing blue collar workers, Luee. Borjas's numbers don't show that.
The loss of voice and power comes from the attacks on unions - not coming from the "liberal elite" you love to attack.
The loss of voice and power comes from the loss of jobs due to automation - not from the immigrants.
The loss of voice and power comes from corporations moving jobs to other countries - not either immigrants or liberals.
America needs
more plumbers, more carpenters, etc. We don't lack for work for them. We don't need a ton more for our assembly lines, regardless of where they are from.
And the tariffs are not bringing back many jobs --> about 6% of the overseas manufacturing places in China might come back. The rest are either staying or moving, but not moving here.
Poll
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