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[vicarz]

A PEW study finds that immigration has not hurt employment of citizens:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060811/ap_on_go_ot/immigration_jobs_3

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[anarcha.livejournal.com]

Not surprised at all.

Thing is, (major stereotype here) many immigrants come to this country and willingly, happily, gratefully work their asses off at the jobs that natural born Americans think they're too good for.

We need immigrants who are willing to take those jobs (as well as the brilliant engineer and artist types). We need them a lot more than we need lawyers...

[vicar.livejournal.com]

I'll concede the weakness in this study though - the accusation comes up that they depress the wage amounts. This wasn't addressed, and would be hard to do with all the other factors which control wages.