Another Betrayal: Republicans Already Promising To Kill Immigration Reform
As Alex Clark points out, both Republican senators are big-time proponents of mass migration, of importing foreign workers, even the low-skilled workers who compete directly with American citizens for the kinds of starter jobs that can do a young person enormous good.
Moreover, this unending flood of the unskilled manipulates the labor market in a way that decreases wages. And this of course benefits big business which in turn benefits the politicians in both parties who receive campaign contributions from big business.
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According to the Migration Policy Institute, in 2015 some 1.38 million foreign born immigrants came to the United States. This does not include the flood of illegal labor. This is legal immigration. As you can see from this graph, legal immigration has more than tripled over the last 50 years. Meanwhile, our overall population in that same amount of time has not even doubled. Per capita, we are taking in a whole lot more legal immigrants than normal. Moreover, we are also dealing with millions and millions of illegal immigrants.
This influx of cheap and illegal labor has been devastating, primarily to black teens, who suffer unnaturally high unemployment rates in the 30% range — almost twice the national average. Keep in mind that this unemployment rate only counts those actively looking for work, not the untold numbers who have given up. The most recent statistic I could find for the labor force participation rate among black youths is 42.7%, compared to 56.5% for whites.
