New York Times (Letter to the Editor)
By Sen. Jeff Sessions
April 18, 2015
“Senator
Sessions, Straight Up” (editorial, April 15), like almost all arguments
made in favor of large-scale immigration, provides no numbers.
In
1970, fewer than 1 in 21 United States residents were born abroad. Five
years from today, the Census Bureau estimates that more than one in
seven United States residents
will have been born abroad. Eight years from today, the share of the
population that is foreign-born will rise above any level ever before
recorded and keep surging.
It
defies reason to argue that the record admission of new foreign workers
has no negative effect on the wages of American workers, including the
wages of past immigrants
hoping to climb into the middle class. Why would many of the largest
business groups in the United States spend millions lobbying for the
admission of more foreign workers if such policies did not cut labor
costs?
The
New York Times once plainly acknowledged as much, writing in a 2000
editorial: “Between about 1980 and 1995, the gap between the wages of
high school dropouts and
all other workers widened substantially. Prof. George Borjas of Harvard
estimates that almost half of this trend can be traced to immigration
of unskilled workers.”
Since
that sentence was published, another 18 million immigrants have arrived
in the United States, while the share of Americans in the work force
has declined almost
five percentage points.
Reuters
says Americans, by a nearly 3-to-1 margin, wish to see immigration
reduced, not increased. Policy makers and voters should be openly
discussing this issue of national
interest. Efforts to intimidate Americans into silence will no longer
work.
For more information, go to: www.beverlyhillsimmigrationlaw.com
No comments:
Post a Comment