Steve Camarota of the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) maintains that employment of Americans should be a key concern when formulating immigration policy. In an article in The Washington Times, he noted that “Immigration is fundamentally a labor issue, and given the employment situation the country needs to rethink the current policy of allowing in very large numbers of foreign workers.
“Each year the U.S. welcomes about one million new permanent residents, all of whom are allowed to work. The State Department also issues hundreds of thousands of guest-worker visas annually, and many more people already here, such as asylum seekers and students who have finished their degrees, receive work authorization from Citizenship and Immigration Services. Continuing such a permissive system in the midst of a dramatic decline in labor demand seems unwise.”
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