As New Jobs Go To Immigrants, Wages Suffer
The Washington Times today focuses on the campaign by the coalition of business, religious, and ethnic advocacy groups pushing for looser immigration and guest worker provisions. It draws on Department of Labor data and analysis by the Center for Immigration Studies that document how between 1996 and 2002 more than 86 percent of all new jobs in precision production, crafts, mechanics, and construction workers went to foreign-born workers. The CIS found that, “By increasing the labor supply, foreign workers reduced the average annual earnings of native-born workers by an estimated $1,700, or roughly 4 percent.”
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