Do illegal immigrants take jobs from American citizens or depress wages?

[lumberjack_jeff]

15. Both, of course.

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We have no trouble recognizing the impact that 800,000 H1B visa holders have on the wages and employment in the technology field, but get all weak in the knees when it's time to consider the impact 12 million illegal aliens have on blue collar workers.

If nothing else, wages paid to workers get sent home, right? Better for the US economy if that home is in the US, $65 billion was sent to latin america as remittances - foreign immigrants sending their earnings home.



You know those signs you see in the storefronts of small businesses? "Spending money here keeps your dollars in your community"? That is only true if the employees consider that community home.

Complaining about inequality is as useful as pissing into the ocean if we're not going to take action to promote the interests of the american working class.

Taking american jobs? Here's the labor force participation rate for the last 40 or so years.


Here's the illegal alien population since 1990


I think we can agree that they're coming here for work, right? One of two things explains the drop in the workforce participation rate: either there are fewer jobs or they are they are going to foreign workers.