POSTED ON BEHALF OF AMY TRAUB, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH AT THE DRUM MAJOR INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY
A new study by the highly-regarded Pew Hispanic Center unearths yet more evidence that immigrant workers do not take jobs from Americans. Analyzing employment patterns in all 50 states and the District of Columbia from 1990 to 2000 and 2000 to 2004, the study finds no consistent association between the growth of the immigrant population and the employment prospects of native workers, even those with a similar age and educational profile to the arriving immigrants.
So should we all just sit back and stop worrying about immigration policy? Is the status quo, in which millions of undocumented workers live without authorization (or rights) in the United States and labor in substandard jobs, actually a beneficial, or at least benign situation for U.S. citizens?
Not quite.
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