Auguste Meyrat, the founding editor of The Everyman, recently wrote an article in Newsweek arguing that the time has come for Americans to take a serious look at the problems caused by illegal immigration. This means ignoring the false narratives of cheap labor interests on the right and cheap vote seekers on the left. He states in the article:
“For too long, American taxpayers have shouldered the burden of illegal immigration. As policy scholar Michael Lind argues, a massive influx of unskilled workers depresses wages and necessitates the expansion of welfare programs to support a growing class of underpaid laborers. As he puts it, this arrangement ‘privatizes the benefits of cheap labor and socializes the costs.’
“Moreover, enabling illegal immigration increases poverty and associated decay in American cities. Not only does it allow businesses to avoid investing in ‘labor-saving technology,’ which would help workers become more productive, it ‘increase[s] the number of low-rent apartments, discount stores, coin-operated laundries . . . payday lenders’ and other salient marks of today’s slums. True, this activity technically raises GDP, but it ultimately lowers the standard of living for the majority of Americans.”
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