Chris Woodward (OneNewsNow.com) Monday, July 08, 2013


Furchtgott-Roth

One of the nation's experts on labor and economics is warning the U.S. Senate immigration bill encourages more, not less, illegal immigration.

Although the newly passed U.S. Senate immigration bill requires Congress to appropriate $46 billion for border security, Diana Furchtgott-Roth of the Manhattan Institute says other provisions in the bill encourage illegal immigration by setting wages for immigrants above their true wage.

Using masonry workers as an example, she explains the bill takes an average of everyone working in the industry to arrive at an appropriate salary.

"Well, the average combines junior workers with senior workers," Furchtgott-Roth explains. "The average wage is too high for junior workers and it's too low for senior workers."

Furchtgott-Roth says it does not matter for more experienced workers because employers can pay them more - they just have to pay them at least that much.

"The problem is that if you have a junior masonry worker, say someone just starting out, the average wage is going to be too much for that person because he's just starting out and he's junior," she says. "So that means that only way the employer could hire him would be illegally."

Furchtgott-Roth believes that while there is much to like in the Senate bill, there is also much that is simply wrong.

The U.S. House of Representatives will now have a say in the matter.

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