The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other cheap labor advocates have come up with a new propaganda line. Seizing on rising national concern about inflation, they maintain that importing more foreign workers will depress wages and thereby lower prices.
Steve Camarota of the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) rebutted their claim in a recent article in National Review. He observed that:
“These groups want more foreign workers to fill jobs typically performed by the less educated, such as food service, health-care support, hospitality, and trucking. In reality, such workers account for only a small share of GDP, so reducing their wages cannot have a large impact on inflation. What it can do, however, is damage the economic prospects of working-class Americans who have seen little to no wage growth for decades.”
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