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Happy Labor Day From NumbersUSA!
On this Labor Day, let us consider how much work there is to do to achieve a sustainable immigration system. One that considers the well-being of the American people and the environment.
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Support for Immigration Reduction at a Forty-Year Peak in Canada
The Angus Reid Institute, a respected Canadian non-partisan, non-profit organization, found growing support among Canadians for lower annual immigrant admissions. According to their recent poll, 49% of Canadians want a decrease in immigration, the highest number since the question was first asked in 1975.
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Harvard/Tufts Study Makes Unsubstantiated Claims About Immigration and U.S. Health Care Costs
How to provide health care and how to pay for it is a contentious political issue in the United States. Immigration adds another dimension to the debate, especially when it comes to using tax payer money to fund health care services for illegal aliens. A recent article in a health journal says not to worry, immigration, even illegal immigration, provides a net benefit to the health care system. We take a look at how the article's authors came to this conclusion.
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Immigration Won't Save Social Security, No Matter How Many Charts Vox Puts On Its Website
"Vox explains the news." Or so they say. Last week a Vox writer tried to explain how Baby Boomers are dependent upon immigrants to fund their Social Security. This is untrue. The Social Security system is in dire straits, but immigration is not going to save it. In fact, our current immigration system is putting strains on the system, and more immigration would only make matters worse.
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Western Growers Association Blocking E-Verify Bill
The Western Growers association is working to sabotage the effort to pass a House bill containing E-Verify, despite the fact that the rest of the agribusiness lobby has signed off on the bill. This Western Growers continues to try to defeat any serious attempt to end illegal immigration, and will only accept a permanent "solution" that amounts to indentured servitude for agricultural workers.
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President Trump Fails to Acknowledge E-Verify As the Most Effective Deterrent of Illegal Immigration
The Trump Administration's "zero tolerance" policy for illegal border crossings will reduce illegal immigration. If Congress takes action, it can ensure that parents and children are kept together while they await the outcome of their cases. If the President wants to pursue a "zero tolerance" policy against criminal employers who knowingly hire unauthorized workers, he must support the inclusion of E-Verify as part of any necessary reform bill.
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President Trump Has a Clear Choice When It Comes to a DACA Amnesty
President Trump has a clear choice. he can sign the Goodlatte bill, which would fulfill some of his campaign promises, or he can sign the Speaker Ryan "compromise" bill, which is a Gang of Eight redux. Ryan's bill does not include E-Verify, and it won't cut the number of green cards issued every year.
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Borjas Continues to Challenge Conventional Immigration Narrative
In 2017, Harvard economist George Borjas reexamined David Card's well-known study of the effect of the 1980 Mariel Boatlift on the Miami labor market. Unlike Card, Borjas found that the influx of Marielitos had caused wages for competing workers to drop. Earlier this month, Borjas, along with several coauthors, released a working paper that looks at employment prospects for workers in Miami in the years following Mariel.
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New 'Research' Demonstrates How Ideology Drives Argument for Sanctuary Policies
Despite the unpopularity of sanctuary policies with the American people, California is leading the fight to nullify federal immigration law. The argument made in favor of sanctuary policies is that they make communities safer because illegal aliens are not afraid to report crimes to local law enforcement. There's a lot wrong with that argument, but defenders of sanctuary policies never let facts get in their way.
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The Most Effective Way to Raise U.S. Wages Is to Reduce Immigration
Is a labor shortage in American a good thing? There is no labor shortage, but there are "labor shortages" in some industries, and that is a good thing. It means the economy has improved enough that employers in certain sectors are having to increase wages and conditions in order to attract workers. That's referred to as a tightening labor market, and reducing immigration to take even more slack out of the labor market would be a great thing.