The Center for Immigration Studies, a group favoring strong border enforcement, found the effect of immigrant labor was pretty limited. Immigration reduced the wage of native-born high school dropouts by 2% to 5%. As we go up the scale of skills and education, the effect of immigration becomes negligible. Pay for migrant agriculture workers in the US is between $10,000 to $12,499/yr for individuals and $15,000 to $17,499 for a family. Damn few kids are willing to travel to God knows where and pick produce in 100+ heat for $8 or $9 an hour.I am fully aware of what you are talking about.
These American children are doing as well as their parents due to the influx of ever more G1-Bs.
H1-Bs are laid off after getting their Green Cards and are getting the entry level jobs that these American kids should be getting.
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