We have a surplus of labor. We have the lowest labor participation rates in 38 years. American jobs are being taken by immigrants and they are depressing wages.
Jeff Sessions summed it up this way:
In 1970, fewer than 1 in 21 United States residents were born abroad. Five years from today, the Census Bureau estimates that more than one in seven United States residents will have been born abroad. Eight years from today, the share of the population that is foreign-born will rise above any level ever before recorded and keep surging.
It defies reason to argue that the record admission of new foreign workers has no negative effect on the wages of American workers, including the wages of past immigrants hoping to climb into the middle class. Why would many of the largest business groups in the United States spend millions lobbying for the admission of more foreign workers if such policies did not cut labor costs?
The New York Times once plainly acknowledged as much, writing in a 2000 editorial: Between about 1980 and 1995, the gap between the wages of high school dropouts and all other workers widened substantially. Prof. George Borjas of Harvard estimates that almost half of this trend can be traced to immigration of unskilled workers.
Since that sentence was published, another 18 million immigrants have arrived in the United States, while the share of Americans in the work force has declined almost five percentage points.
Reuters says Americans, by a nearly 3-to-1 margin, wish to see immigration reduced, not increased. Policy makers and voters should be openly discussing this issue of national interest. Efforts to intimidate Americans into silence will no longer work.
I believe Cruz is wrong to urge more legal immigration, but at least the guy isn’t lying about what his policy is.
He's off my list.
We now see the true colors of Cruz.
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Cruz has ALWAYS been an advocate of legal immigration. No change there. The question is—will others do what they say.
So if YOU have a relative or friend over seas who wants to come here and immigrate to the USA we can tell them to stay home ? We don’t need them ? don’t come here ? your not welcomed ?
“We now see the true colors of Cruz. We don’t need more LEGAL IMMIGRATION. We take in 1.1 million LEGAL PERMANENT IMMIGRANTS ANNUALLY—more than the rest of the world combined. Since 1990 30 MILLION LEGAL PERMANENT IMMIGRANTS HAVE ENTERED THIS COUNTRY. We have a surplus of labor. We have the lowest labor participation rates in 38 years. American jobs are being taken by immigrants and they are depressing wages.”
BUMP.