Duhhh - Congressional Budget Office Finds Immigration Hurts American Workers
Article publisher:
VDare
Article date:
10 January 2020
Article category:
National News
Medium
Article Body:
... It's baffling and infuriating that with heroic exceptions like Tucker Carlson, almost no one with a mainstream platform points out that you simply can't be pro-worker without being anti-immigration. Illegal [alien] immigrants are scabs. Cheap labor is a feature, not a bug. If you stop immigration, you raise wages without the need for cumbersome regulations.
I fear the SPLC, the various Hispanic lobby groups, and every radical professor in the country far less than I fear Corporate America. The latter is the real force that's pushing open borders, even if it may destroy them in the end....
However, there's a beacon of light. The Congressional Budget Office just reported the truth...
Immigration helps the U.S. economy, but it’s not as good for individual workers, particularly those at the low end of the wage scale for whom the increased competition for jobs leaves them worse off, the Congressional Budget Office said in a report this week...
Yet at least the essential reason mass immigration exists, to facilitate the transfer of wealth from labor to capital, is finally being discussed....