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Link – Increased Immigration UnemploymentThe recession changes the debate – immigration during periods of unemployment leads to more unemployment Camarota 9 (Steven A.; senior demographic analyst, Center of Immigration Studies, April 2009, http://www.cis.org/FirstQuarter2009Unemployment) The above statistics paint a very bleak picture for unemployment among immigrants and natives. The unemployment rate was 9.7 percent for immigrants overall and 8.6 percent for natives. At present the United States has not changed its immigration policy in any significant way in response to the recession. Table 10 reports the number of individuals given authorization to work in the United States (temporary and permanent) in fiscal year 2008. The table shows that more than 1.3 million new individuals were authorized to work in the United States in 2008 on a temporary or permanent basis. If we include adult illegal aliens who were given permanent residence (a “green card”) from within the United States, which confers work authorization, we would have to add another 100,000 to 250,000 new individuals to this total. The very high unemployment of immigrants overall, and the rapid increase in unemployment even among educated immigrants, calls into question the wisdom of bringing in so many foreign workers. This is especially true when one considers that the unemployment rate for the most recently arrived immigrants is 13.3 percent. Link – Increased Immigration UnemploymentIncreasing immigration prevents the economy from recovering – unemployment and wages King 7 (May 3rd 2007 committee hearing, subcommittee on immigration, citizenship, refugees, border security, and international law, library.cqpress.com) BHB Protecting jobs and economic opportunity for Americans is one of the most important topics Congress must address.A comprehensive immigration reform bill, like the one being discussed by the Senate, the administration and the open borders lobby will not protect American jobs or the aspiration of so many Americans to better their lives. Importing millions of poorly educated foreign workers won't help our country but will only hinder its growth. Americans are conditioned to believe that such immigrants are necessary to our economy, because they supposedly take jobs Americans will not do. The reality is employers hire desperate aliens who will work for much less than Americans, driving wages down and making it impossible for American workers to compete.Even Alexander Aleinikoff, a very aptly named former Clinton administration INS official, and current dean of the Georgetown University's Law Center, has stated that it's a myth to say that there is little or no competition between undocumented workers and American workers. And what about the claims that there are jobs Americans won't do? That claim is a slap in the face to the millions of U.S. citizens who go to work every day, working those very same jobs side by side. Link – Increased Immigration Lower WagesImmigration lowers wages Meissner 9 (Doris - Senior Fellow Migration Policy Institute; “Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security and Citizenship Hearing – ‘Date Change---Comprehensive Immigration Reform in 2009, Can We Do It and How?’,” 4-30-09)BHB Yet immigration is not unambiguously beneficial. At a minimum, labor inflows have distributive consequences. While economists remain divided about the details, most agree that for at least some Americans, their relative wages fall as a result of immigration. In particular, low-skilled native-born workers (those without a high school degree), recent immigrants and workers with poor language skills are most likely to suffer wage losses from immigration. n12 And even college-educated immigrants may depress U.S. wages if employers use high-skilled immigration as an explicit strategy to reduce their payroll costs. Link – Increased Immigration Lower WagesImmigration can lower wages. Borjas 6 (George J., Professor of Economics and Social Policy at Harvard University, The Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 41, No. 2, Spring 2006, JSTOR, p. 221-222) TJN In view of these potential problems, it is not too surprising that the empirical literature has produced a confusing array of results. The measured impact of immigration on the wage of native workers in local labor markets fluctuates widely from study to study, but seems to cluster around zero. In recent work (Borjas 2003), I show that by defining the labor market at the national level - which more closely approximates the theoretical counterpart of a closed labor market - the measured wage impact of immigration becomes much larger. By examining the evolution of wages in the 1960-2000 period within narrow skill groups (defined in terms of schooling and labor market experience), I concluded that a 10 percent immigrant-induced increase in the number of workers in a particular skill group reduces the wage of that group by 3 to 4 percent. Immigration decreases the average American’s wages Hanson 7 (Gordon H. Hanson “The Economic Logic of Illegal Immigration” CSR NO. 26, April 2007 Council on Foreign Relations pg 19-20) These benefits, however, are not shared equally. Labor inflows from abroad redistribute income away from workers who compete with immigrants in the labor market. George Borjas estimates that over the period 1980 to 2000 immigration contributed to a decrease in average U.S. wages of 3 percent.34 This estimate accounts for the total change in the U.S. labor force due to immigration, including both legal and illegal sources. Since immigration is concentrated among the low-skilled, low skilled natives are the workers most likely to be hurt. Over the 1980 to 2000 period, wages of native workers without a high school degree fell by 9 percent as a result of immigration.35 On the other hand, lower wages for low-skilled labor mean lower prices for labor intensive goods and services, especially those whose prices are set in local markets rather than through competition in global markets. Patricia Cortes finds that in the 1980s and 1990s U.S. cities with larger inflows of low-skilled immigrants experienced larger reductions in prices for housekeeping, gardening, child care, dry cleaning, and other labor-intensive, locally traded services.36 Lower prices for goods and services raise the real incomes of U.S. households, with most of these gains going to those in regions with large immigrant populations. Download 0.75 Mb. Share with your friends:
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