Report Warns Easing Immigrants' Path to Citizenship Will Further Harm Economy

By Kelley Vlahos

Published May 31, 2011

| FoxNews.com

EXCLUSIVE: President Obama says reforming immigration policy will help the nation’s economy, especially in the form of job creation.

Research cited by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce says there is no correlation between immigration and high unemployment.

But one major critic disagrees and says that illegal immigrants are already competing with native-born Americans for jobs, particularly low-wage, unskilled service jobs.

In a new report released today, “Immigration, Poverty and Low-Wage Earners: The Harmful Effect of Unskilled Immigrants on American Workers,â€