It’s easier than finding them all jobs when they get out or return from the ME. Might be rough for the Navy though
New Study: Immigration Redistributes
Income from Poor U.S. Workers
Nation’s top immigration economist finds tiny overall benefit
comes from reducing wages of native-born competitors
WASHINGTON, DC (April 9, 2013) – Borjas, recognized by Business Week and the Wall Street Journal as “America’s leading immigration economist”, calculates that the wages of native-born workers in competition with immigrants (legal and illegal) are reduced by $402 billion per year.
This reduction in wages is offset by an increase in profits or wages of those who use immigrant labor of $437 billion. The resulting negligible “immigration surplus” represents two tenths of one percent of GDP. It is most often the least-educated and poorest American workers competing with immigrants who suffer the most from immigration.
Illegal immigration, specifically, creates an even smaller benefit to the overall economy – six one-hundredths of one percent – which comes from the same source: lowering the wages of less-educated American workers.
The report, “Immigration and the American Worker: A Review of the Academic Literature”, is published by the Center for Immigration Studies and is online at http://cis.org/immigration-and-the-american-worker-review-academic-literature
Dr. Steven Camarota, Director of Research of the Center for immigration Studies, comments, “Professor Borjas’s findings on the magnitude of the immigration-driven reduction in wages for less-skilled American workers is disturbing. I hope those formulating immigration policy in Washington will consider the effects on our poorest countrymen of amnesty for illegal immigrants and further increases in legal immigration.”
“Might be rough for the Navy though”
The Rio Grande. Maybe Sec. Kerry could lead them on a boat cruise.