Thread: Pinko professors claim illegals don't take jobs away

Debate rages over impact of undocumented workers

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(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.

If I were standing next to the author:

Story from link above:

Debate rages over impact of undocumented workers
By Mike Gorrell

The Salt Lake Tribune

Published Dec 29, 2010 05:27PM
Updated Dec 29, 2010 11:48PM
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.

On one side, there are people such as George Borjas, a professor of economics and social policy at Harvard, and Steven Camarota, research director for the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, D.C., who see a direct correlation between an influx of immigrants and negative consequences for Americans with lower skill levels.

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.

Pam Perlich, a senior research economist in the University of Utah’s Bureau of Economic and Business Research, puts more credence in the latter perspective.

“Everyone agrees there has been negative compression on wages. The debate is about the extent of the compression,â€