At a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting on "Immigration Economic Impacts", Barry Chiswick, Professor in Department of Economics at the University of Illinois, says that immigrants compete with low-wage American workers.

Posted by Staff on April 25, 2006 |

Chiswick says that while the United States should continue to seek highly educated immigrant workers, Congress also needs to protect low-wage American workers by reducing the competition from illegal immigration, and improving the enforcement of immigration law (0:51).

 
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April 25, 2006
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