For one thing, Sessions is making it much more difficult to bring in H1-Bs and is actually enforcing some laws to send many home.
And guess who's working on residential and commercial construction?
All of those Americans who couldn't find a job during Obama's anti-American worker presidency.
Ahhh finally something of substance that I can sink my teeth into although still no documentation. Anyway, it is an interesting issue and I’ll admit that I didn’t really know how immigration effects American worker so I decided to do some homework. What I found is that it is complicated and there is a lot more to it that “kick them all out and help Americans”
Before I go on, let me say that I am concerned about all people- especially working people- and that included immigrants who may have been in this country for decades. They have as much of a right to economic security as those who have had the good fortune to be born here. So sue me.
Now, I found this interesting article that seems to be well balanced and objective:
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/trump-clinton-immigration-economy-unemployment-jobs-214216
Selected excerpts with commentary
Here’s the problem with the current immigration debate: Neither side is revealing the whole picture. Trump might cite my work, but he overlooks my findings that the influx of immigrants can potentially be a net good for the nation, increasing the total wealth of the population. Clinton ignores the hard truth that not everyone benefits when immigrants arrive. For many Americans, the influx of immigrants hurts their prospects significantly.
So that is my first learning experience. It goes on….
When the supply of workers goes up, the price that firms have to pay to hire workers goes down. Wage trends over the past half-century suggest that a 10 percent increase in the number of workers with a particular set of skills probably lowers the wage of that group by at least 3 percent
Very interesting. At this point it seems that I’m making your case
Both low- and high-skilled natives are affected by the influx of immigrants. But because a disproportionate percentage of immigrants have few skills, it is low-skilled American workers, including many blacks and Hispanics, who have suffered most from this wage dip.
Humm ……, more damaging evidence against my pro – immigrant philosophy. Here is more:
But that’s only one side of the story. Somebody’s lower wage is always somebody else’s higher profit. In this case, immigration redistributes wealth from those who compete with immigrants to those who use immigrants—from the employee to the employer. And the additional profits are so large that the economic pie accruing to all natives actually grows. I estimate the current “immigration surplus”—the net increase in the total wealth of the native population—to be about$50 billion annually.
Maybe Trump might want to rethink his immigration policy since, by getting rid of them, he would be reversing this upward redistribution of wealth. But, I don’t think that he is really smart enough to have considered any of this..
Now, I’m not so sure about the veracity of this next passage
When we look at the overall value of immigration, there’s one more complicating factor: Immigrants receive government assistance at higher rates than natives. The higher cost of all the services provided to immigrants and the lower taxes they pay (because they have lower earnings) inevitably implies that on a year-to-year basis immigration creates a fiscal hole of at least $50 billion—a burden that falls on the native population.
If we are talking about the undocumented, I do not believe that they are receiving much at all in the ay of taxpayer funded services. It goes on….
What does it all add up to? The fiscal burden offsets the gain from the $50 billion immigration surplus, so it’s not too farfetched to conclude that immigration has barely affected the total wealth of natives at all. Instead, it has changed how the pie is split, with the losers—the workers who compete with immigrants, many of those being low-skilled Americans—sending a roughly $500 billion check annually to the winners. Those winners are primarily their employers. And the immigrants themselves come out ahead, too. Put bluntly, immigration turns out to be just another income redistribution program.
So there you have it. It seems that Trump might unwittingly be helping some lower end American workers but there is the potential of harm to his rich friends. Very interesting. Too bad that this thread is not about immigration, but rather, Trumps mental defects. On the other hand, maybe this is just more proof that he is and idiot driven by impulse and animus with no real core values or intellectual curiosity
