What Does Immigration Actually Cost Us?
*'The crux of the problem is that the plusses and minuses are not distributed equally. The academy found, for example, that the willingness of less-skilled immigrants to work at low pay reduced consumption costs the costs to consumers of goods and services like health care, child care, food preparation, house cleaning, repair and construction for millions of Americans. This resulted in positive net benefits to the U.S. economy during the last two decades of the 20th century. These low-wage workers simultaneously generated a redistribution of wealth from low- to high-skilled native-born workers.
The frequent harshness of these trade-offs in real life is masked by the academic language of the report, which points out that native-born workers who are substitutes for immigrants will experience negative wage effects in other words, lower wages.'>>>
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/29/opinion/campaign-stops/what-does-immigration-actually-cost-us.html?