The CoC supports a blanket amnesty for all 12 to 22 million illegal aliens in this country and continued high legal immigration levels. A surplus of cheap labor, legal and illegal, drives down wages. If there was really a surplus of labor, wages would be going up, not stagnating or decreasing in inflation adjusted dollars since 1969. We continue to have low labor participation rates despite the reduction in unemployment rates and increased job creation. We have around 95 million working age Americans out of the workforce. BLS data:
Labor Participation rates 1980 thru 2018
I define amnesty as allowing the illegal aliens to stay and work here, the object of their crime. A path to citizenship is just the cherry on top.
If we don't curb legal immigration significantly, the result will be the same, i.e., the Dems will be the permanent majority party. There is too much focus on illegal immigration. The far bigger problem is legal immigration.
There have always been some smart Republicans who realize that illegal aliens, if given citizenship, will vote democrat, and that will be the end of their party. There are even some COC members, but only a small fraction of them, who realize that giving the democrats control of the government would mean massive tax and regulation increases, which will not only hurt the bottom line like amnesty, but perhaps ruin them completely.
Even most of the "smart Republicans" fail to understand that bringing in 1.1 million legal permanent immigrants a year (35 million since 1990) will be the end of their party, at least as currently constituted. We have just had three of the four highest decades of legal immigration in our history. And by 2023 the percentage of foreign born will be the highest in our history. Immigrants and their US born children drive 80% of our population growth.
