Labor Market Losers?
The charge that immigrants reduce the wages and employment of native-born black
Americans is one of the most contentious issues of the debate over immigration. Despite the
highly organized and publicly visible forces touting evidence of immigrants‘ devastating
effects on native workers, and especially young black workers, how immigrant workers
affect native labor markets remains a topic of uneasy debate among both lay people and
economists. Some people argue current levels of immigration are literally destroying
communities because undocumented workers are driving blue-collar wages so low a middle
class standard of living is becoming unattainable for many working Americans. Such
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