Harvard Economist: Immigration Costs US Workers $500 Billion A Year

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How can anyone honestly claim immigration doesn't harm American workers if data like that is accurate?


Immigration effectively redistributes half a trillion dollars from U.S. workers to the businesses that hire immigrants each year, Harvard economist and immigration and wages expert George Borjas testified before Congress Wednesday.
 
How can anyone honestly claim immigration doesn't harm American workers if data like that is accurate?


Immigration effectively redistributes half a trillion dollars from U.S. workers to the businesses that hire immigrants each year, Harvard economist and immigration and wages expert George Borjas testified before Congress Wednesday.


Oh, lets not let this thread slip away. No way Jose! This needs discussing lefties, or are you in to screwing over your fellow Americans-)
 
How can anyone honestly claim immigration doesn't harm American workers if data like that is accurate?


Immigration effectively redistributes half a trillion dollars from U.S. workers to the businesses that hire immigrants each year, Harvard economist and immigration and wages expert George Borjas testified before Congress Wednesday.


Oh, lets not let this thread slip away. No way Jose! This needs discussing lefties, or are you in to screwing over your fellow Americans-)
Republicans don't give a shit either. Both of them benefit from illegals. Corrupt fucks.
 
How can anyone honestly claim immigration doesn't harm American workers if data like that is accurate?


Immigration effectively redistributes half a trillion dollars from U.S. workers to the businesses that hire immigrants each year, Harvard economist and immigration and wages expert George Borjas testified before Congress Wednesday.


Oh, lets not let this thread slip away. No way Jose! This needs discussing lefties, or are you in to screwing over your fellow Americans-)
Republicans don't give a shit either. Both of them benefit from illegals. Corrupt fucks.


I agree, as far as the establishment. I know a lot of workers who are not white collar and vote GOP, and they certainly would like to read it.
 
How can anyone honestly claim immigration doesn't harm American workers if data like that is accurate?


Immigration effectively redistributes half a trillion dollars from U.S. workers to the businesses that hire immigrants each year, Harvard economist and immigration and wages expert George Borjas testified before Congress Wednesday.

Interesting read.

“What immigration really does is not so much increase the pie, as redistribute the wealth,” Borjas testified before the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest. “So what I’ve learned from all this is that immigration happens to come out to be just another government redistribution program.”

Read more: Harvard Economist: Immigration Costs US Workers $500 Billion A Year [VIDEO]
 
How can anyone honestly claim immigration doesn't harm American workers if data like that is accurate?


Immigration effectively redistributes half a trillion dollars from U.S. workers to the businesses that hire immigrants each year, Harvard economist and immigration and wages expert George Borjas testified before Congress Wednesday.
do you mean "illegal" immigration?.........
 
How can anyone honestly claim immigration doesn't harm American workers if data like that is accurate?


Immigration effectively redistributes half a trillion dollars from U.S. workers to the businesses that hire immigrants each year, Harvard economist and immigration and wages expert George Borjas testified before Congress Wednesday.
do you mean "illegal" immigration?.........
No, they hate all darkie immigrants, not just illegals.
 
How can anyone honestly claim immigration doesn't harm American workers if data like that is accurate?


Immigration effectively redistributes half a trillion dollars from U.S. workers to the businesses that hire immigrants each year, Harvard economist and immigration and wages expert George Borjas testified before Congress Wednesday.


Oh, lets not let this thread slip away. No way Jose! This needs discussing lefties, or are you in to screwing over your fellow Americans-)
Republicans don't give a shit either. Both of them benefit from illegals. Corrupt fucks.

How do rank and file Republicans benefit from illegals? A few dozen billionaires aren't going to get a president or a majority in Congress elected.
 
How can anyone honestly claim immigration doesn't harm American workers if data like that is accurate?


Immigration effectively redistributes half a trillion dollars from U.S. workers to the businesses that hire immigrants each year, Harvard economist and immigration and wages expert George Borjas testified before Congress Wednesday.
do you mean "illegal" immigration?.........

No. I mean immigration, period.
 
How can anyone honestly claim immigration doesn't harm American workers if data like that is accurate?


Immigration effectively redistributes half a trillion dollars from U.S. workers to the businesses that hire immigrants each year, Harvard economist and immigration and wages expert George Borjas testified before Congress Wednesday.
do you mean "illegal" immigration?.........

Seems to be all immigration.

The U.S. admits about one million new legal permanent residents every year who are eligible to compete for any job in the U.S. economy, as well as about 100,000 refugees and asylum seekers, 700,000 guest workers and students often eligible to compete for jobs during and in the years after their schooling.





Read more: Harvard Economist: Immigration Costs US Workers $500 Billion A Year [VIDEO]
 
How can anyone honestly claim immigration doesn't harm American workers if data like that is accurate?


Immigration effectively redistributes half a trillion dollars from U.S. workers to the businesses that hire immigrants each year, Harvard economist and immigration and wages expert George Borjas testified before Congress Wednesday.
do you mean "illegal" immigration?.........
No, they hate all darkie immigrants, not just illegals.

Who is they?
 
What the Harvard economist is saying is that immigrants add $1.6 trillion to the US GDP every year. Most of that goes to the immigrants.

$400 billion goes to the native born population. And most of that goes to the employers and investors instead of the workers.

In short, immigrants are a net financial gain. Just not to the average worker. They are a net gain for the one percenters.

Immigration and the American Worker

Immigration has its largest negative impact on the wage of native workers who lack a high school diploma

Those are the people demanding a $15 minimum wage the Right makes fun of. They are the ones being underpaid so that CEOs and investors can make more money.
 
How can anyone honestly claim immigration doesn't harm American workers if data like that is accurate?


Immigration effectively redistributes half a trillion dollars from U.S. workers to the businesses that hire immigrants each year, Harvard economist and immigration and wages expert George Borjas testified before Congress Wednesday.
do you mean "illegal" immigration?.........
No, they hate all darkie immigrants, not just illegals.

Who is they?
He is just projecting
They would be the people that think like he does.
 
What the Harvard economist is saying is that immigrants add $1.6 trillion to the US GDP every year. Most of that goes to the immigrants.

$400 billion goes to the native born population. And most of that goes to the employers and investors instead of the workers.

In short, immigrants are a net financial gain. Just not to the average worker. They are a net gain for the one percenters.

Immigration and the American Worker

Yes redistributing to the wealthy. They benefit from cheaper labor.
 
What the Harvard economist is saying is that immigrants add $1.6 trillion to the US GDP every year. Most of that goes to the immigrants.

$400 billion goes to the native born population. And most of that goes to the employers and investors instead of the workers.

In short, immigrants are a net financial gain. Just not to the average worker. They are a net gain for the one percenters.

Immigration and the American Worker

Yes redistributing to the wealthy. They benefit from cheaper labor.
They benefit from not paying the American without a high school diploma as little as possible. That's who the economist says is being harmed the most. You know...those people the Right scorns for asking for a higher minimum wage.

Those are the people the economist says are being robbed.
 
How can anyone honestly claim immigration doesn't harm American workers if data like that is accurate?


Immigration effectively redistributes half a trillion dollars from U.S. workers to the businesses that hire immigrants each year, Harvard economist and immigration and wages expert George Borjas testified before Congress Wednesday.
do you mean "illegal" immigration?.........
No, they hate all darkie immigrants, not just illegals.

Who is they?
The nativists who exclaim they are only upset with Mexican illegals, but are often found complaining about the legal immigrants. Like this topic.
 
What the Harvard economist is saying is that immigrants add $1.6 trillion to the US GDP every year. Most of that goes to the immigrants.

$400 billion goes to the native born population. And most of that goes to the employers and investors instead of the workers.

In short, immigrants are a net financial gain. Just not to the average worker. They are a net gain for the one percenters.

Immigration and the American Worker

Yes redistributing to the wealthy. They benefit from cheaper labor.
They benefit from not paying the American without a high school diploma as little as possible. That's who the economist says is being harmed the most. You know...those people the Right scorns for asking for a higher minimum wage.

Those are the people the economist says are being robbed.

Don't think it is just the lowest paid, includes guest workers. Those are often better paying jobs.
 
What the Harvard economist is saying is that immigrants add $1.6 trillion to the US GDP every year. Most of that goes to the immigrants.

$400 billion goes to the native born population. And most of that goes to the employers and investors instead of the workers.

In short, immigrants are a net financial gain. Just not to the average worker. They are a net gain for the one percenters.

Immigration and the American Worker

Yes redistributing to the wealthy. They benefit from cheaper labor.
They benefit from not paying the American without a high school diploma as little as possible. That's who the economist says is being harmed the most. You know...those people the Right scorns for asking for a higher minimum wage.

Those are the people the economist says are being robbed.

Don't think it is just the lowest paid, includes guest workers. Those are often better paying jobs.
Read the link. I even quoted him: "Immigration has its largest negative impact on the wage of native workers who lack a high school diploma".
 
What the Harvard economist is saying is that immigrants add $1.6 trillion to the US GDP every year. Most of that goes to the immigrants.

$400 billion goes to the native born population. And most of that goes to the employers and investors instead of the workers.

In short, immigrants are a net financial gain. Just not to the average worker. They are a net gain for the one percenters.

Immigration and the American Worker

Yes redistributing to the wealthy. They benefit from cheaper labor.
They benefit from not paying the American without a high school diploma as little as possible. That's who the economist says is being harmed the most. You know...those people the Right scorns for asking for a higher minimum wage.

Those are the people the economist says are being robbed.

They don't have to pay because there is always cheap immigrant labor willing to take the job for half the pay.
 
What the Harvard economist is saying is that immigrants add $1.6 trillion to the US GDP every year. Most of that goes to the immigrants.

$400 billion goes to the native born population. And most of that goes to the employers and investors instead of the workers.

In short, immigrants are a net financial gain. Just not to the average worker. They are a net gain for the one percenters.

Immigration and the American Worker

Yes redistributing to the wealthy. They benefit from cheaper labor.
They benefit from not paying the American without a high school diploma as little as possible. That's who the economist says is being harmed the most. You know...those people the Right scorns for asking for a higher minimum wage.

Those are the people the economist says are being robbed.

Don't think it is just the lowest paid, includes guest workers. Those are often better paying jobs.
Read the link. I even quoted him: "Immigration has its largest negative impact on the wage of native workers who lack a high school diploma".

That ignores all the STEM workers who are here on H1-Bs
 

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