Immigration hurting Americans (New Study)

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Colorado State University Philosophy Professor Authors Study on
Immigration Reform

FORT COLLINS � Colorado State University philosophy professor authors
new study that examines the impact of uncontrolled immigration on
America's poor. The study reflects on national trends, but includes
in-depth interviews with northern Colorado workers.

The new policy brief, �The Economic Impacts of Mass Immigration into the
United States and the Proper Progressive Response" reveals that current
immigration policies widen income inequalities and concentrate
immigration's harms upon those Americans least able to afford them.

The study was released by the non-profit organization Progressives for
Immigration Reformation and authored by Philip Cafaro, associate
professor of philosophy at Colorado State University.

Among key findings in the study:

� Increased immigration has swamped American labor markets with
less-skilled, less-educated workers, driving down wages for
working-class Americans.

� Government data show that when adjusted for inflation, average
wages in some industries with high numbers of foreign workers are 45
percent lower than in 1980.

� Among the biggest economic losers of current high levels of
immigration are poor Americans, ethnic minorities and older immigrants.
There is no evidence of a labor shortage at the lower end of the labor
market.

Cafaro argues that overall, current immigration policies further
economic inequality in the United States.

"In today's economic environment, when many Americans are suffering from
unemployment, job displacement and stagnant or declining wages, our
government should set immigration levels that work for America's poorest
citizens, rather than against them," says Cafaro. "Although the United
States is a wealthy nation that can and should do its best to help poor
people in other countries, basic fairness requires that we not do so on
the backs of poor Ameri cans."

The full publication can be viewed at
http://www.progressivesforimmigrationreform.org/2009/11/29/the-economic-impacts-of-mass-immigration-into-the-united-states-and-the-proper-progressive-response/.

Philip Cafaro is associate professor of philosophy at Colorado State
University. He can be reached at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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Hisler <His...@cocks.net> wrote in
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> Among key findings in the study:
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> � Increased immigration has swamped American labor markets

> with less-skilled, less-educated workers, driving down wages for
> working-class Americans.
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> � Government data show that when adjusted for inflation,

> average wages in some industries with high numbers of foreign workers
> are 45 percent lower than in 1980.
>

> � Among the biggest economic losers of current high levels of

> immigration are poor Americans, ethnic minorities and older
> immigrants. There is no evidence of a labor shortage at the lower end
> of the labor market.
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> Cafaro argues that overall, current immigration policies further
> economic inequality in the United States.
>

Everyone knows this. Immigration drives down wages and that's why Business
loves it and bribes our officials into supporting it.