Debate rages over impact of undocumented workers

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/50845 ... s.html.csp

(note weasel words written by a liberally biased journalist)

American-born men and women with limited education face the greatest competition for jobs from undocumented workers.

That much is clear.

What’s not? Whether this competition actually ends up taking jobs away from native-born people with high school degrees or less, and the degree to which immigrants drive down the value of their wages.

Those issues have divided scholars into two broad camps.

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But there are also learned academicians such as David Card from the University of California, Berkeley, and Giovanni Peri, a University of California, Davis, professor, who believe immigration unquestionably benefits the economy in the long term, even if working-class people take a small hit during tough economic times.