Thread: Lower Wages and Unemployed Americans

Lower Wages and Unemployed Americans
Written by R. Cort Kirkwood
Wednesday, 10 November 2010 00:00

Two persistent myths peddled by the open-borders lobby about illegal aliens are that they do not harm the wages or American workers, and even if they do, illegals in particular and immigrants in general do the jobs that Americans won’t do.

Four years ago, economist George Borjas of Harvard University conducted a study for Maricopa County, Arizona. He found that illegal aliens alone depressed wages in Arizona by $1.4 billion in 2006, and knocked 4.2 percent off the wages of low-skilled workers. According the Phoenix Business Journal, Borjas calculated “that illegals make up 10 percent of all state workers and decrease all wages by 1.5 percent.â€

you are right yes if the Border was close the American would have job but they Illegal Immigrant work cheap . & the Other guy . save money . we American work very hard just like they do & we Have family also . but we don't mail Money back home so the other Illegal immigrant can come over for a free ride No way in hell . &who hire them should get fine a good Buck . it agood thing Im not in the Wh all lot of them would be ship out I would start right in NYC so don't come & tell me the American don't work by the way the one that hire the are Illegal illegrant that why they will no hire The American