[Aetius]

It is the last few paragraphs that are most interesting, as even Bush's economic team doesn't dare claim the net effects of immigration to be anything other than slightly positive.

It then goes on to say that the effect on native workers is hard to gauge --- and this is the key, because it is the effect of immigration policy on the native-born that should carry the most weight in determining immigration policy. Maybe it should be the only consideration, but certainly it should be the most important one.

[Marine Inspector]

Ping.

[texastoo]

This article is about 10 years too late.

[PRND21]

Bump

[junta]

Its real effect is for moral snobbery, and of course cheap labor

[skeeter]

Interesting - I've always accepted that legal immigration was a clear economic benefit to the country.

According to the administration's own statisticians, and societal benefits notwithstanding, turns out the economic benefits are slight.

[citizen]

Good find bump...

[citizen]

1st two paragraphs from the article:

The net effect of immigration to the United States is a drain on U.S. native workers of about $70 billion per year, according to a new study by two Columbia University professors and the Center for Immigration Studies.
The study challenges the assumption that immigration is like trade in that it is a net benefit both to the U.S. economy and immigrants' home nations.

[goldstategop]

If you drop the Open Borders Lobby padding, it turns out illegal immigrants are a LIABILITY to the economy. What's crazy is politicians going out of their way to pander to them with a slew of taxpayer subsidized goodies.

(Denny Crane: "There are two places to find the truth. First God and then Fox News.")

[citizen]

More:

"American workers are better off competing with foreigners if the foreign workers stay in their own countries and don't have access to American technology," the professors concluded. "By allowing the foreign workers into the United States, Americans face competition with foreign workers equipped with American technology."

[Coleus]

Americans Lose $68 Billion to Illegals
NewsMax ^ | 02/24/2005 | Donald R. Davis and David E. Weinstein