Immigration to the U.S. is by its name a wage positive. It’s tautological. Higher wages are what instigate immigration, so to pretend as some do that the arrival of immigrants pushes down wages implies that the purest of market signal of all (the migration of humans) is a stupid one. No, not likely. More on this in a bit, but if the inflow of people pulled wages down then there wouldn’t be an inflow, the inflow would be limited by market forces, or both.
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