The U.S. government has often stayed silent when asked this. Employers operating within our economy will more often than not favor allowing an immigrant to work for them, as they will work for minimal pay. The U.S. receives nearly a million legal immigrants per year, and the large amount of them enter the labor market wishing to take the jobs of Americans. The unfortunate result is wage depression, though several other factors also play into the restriction of wage growth, and an ever-growing unemployment rate above the 5 percentile that many federal economists believe harms the market. Rather than have a million legal immigrants plus more than three hundred thousand more job seekers coming over on temporary work visas year in and year out without a pause, we should ask the simple question, do we need any immigrants? The only constituency that claims there is such a need is employers. And they have essentially written U.S. immigration law for a very long
The U.S. government has often stayed silent when asked this. Employers operating within our economy will more often than not favor allowing an immigrant to work for them, as they will work for minimal pay. The U.S. receives nearly a million legal immigrants per year, and the large amount of them enter the labor market wishing to take the jobs of Americans. The unfortunate result is wage depression, though several other factors also play into the restriction of wage growth, and an ever-growing unemployment rate above the 5 percentile that many federal economists believe harms the market. Rather than have a million legal immigrants plus more than three hundred thousand more job seekers coming over on temporary work visas year in and year out without a pause, we should ask the simple question, do we need any immigrants? The only constituency that claims there is such a need is employers. And they have essentially written U.S. immigration law for a very long