Via Breitbart Immigration, Breitbart.COM/immigration, see Neil Munro
on whether Donald Trump regrets taking Jared Kushner's advice to
downplay the National Question on the campaign trail against Joe Biden
and Kamala Harris: <URL:https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2022/02/16/michael-lind-migration-is-all-about-cutting-americans-wages/>
| "So-called 'immigration reform' is all about profits," says Michael
| Lind, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
|
| The Yale-educated author wrote:
|
|| ... do low-wage immigrants--regardless of whether they are legal
|| or illegal--actually suppress wages and/or take away jobs? This
|| brings us to what I think of as the borscht belt theory of
|| immigration. The best-known joke identified with the borscht belt--
|| the region of hotels and resorts in the Catskill Mountains that once
|| served a heavily Jewish immigrant clientele--involves a typical
|| patron who complains that "The food in this place is really
|| terrible, and the portions are so small!"
||
|| The borscht belt theory of immigration goes like this:
|| "Immigrants do not suppress wages--and without more immigrants,
|| wages will go up and everything will be more expensive!"...
||
|| Both statements cannot be true. It cannot be the case that
|| immigrant competition does not suppress wages in a particular
|| occupation, and at the same time also [be] true that employers in
|| the absence of immigration would be forced to raise wages to attract
|| workers and pass the costs along to consumers.
|
| Lind is the author of The New Class War: Saving Democracy from the
| Managerial Elite, which "debunks the idea that the [populist]
| insurgencies are primarily the result of bigotry."

Will Liz Shuler and Suzanne Clark again team with Mark Zuckerberg to
defeat inflation and block Trump in 2024?

John
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