Analyzing the economic performance of these immigrants throughout the twentieth century, the authors find that Mexican immigrants have much less education than either native-born workers or non-Mexican immigrants. These differences in what economists call "human capital" account for nearly three-quarters of the very large wage disadvantage suffered by Mexican immigrants in recent decades.Liberals average far more education and income than conservatives. It's pretty simple. High school drop-outs are competing with the immigrants - hence conservatives being up in arms. Personally, I don't care if it's a Mexican or a Christian Conservative idiot that mows my lawn as long as they do a good job.
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The authors also find that the large Mexican influx in recent decades has contributed to the widening of the U.S. wage structure by adversely affecting the earnings of less-educated native workers and improving the earnings of college graduates.
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Wow, you really did just advocate creating a permenant underclass...and you are totally cool with it. Jesus, you never cease to amaze.
No.. I advocate capitalism and free markets. I worked, got an education, learned a profession - and anybody that you describe as the "underclass" can do the same with the same opportunity as anybody else.
If the guy that mows my lawn doesn't want to mow my lawn anymore, he's free to go do something else. That's how this entire system works.
How would you reccomend they pay for such education Tom?
Illegal Immigrant gets payed 50 cents an hour to pick fruit...how exactly is he supposed to comp the cost of college?
Government subsidized loans? Wait, he can't. He's not a citizen.
Grants? Wait, he can't. In fact, he can't apply for anything if he's male and hasn't registred with Selective Service.
Oh, but then you legalize them right? And then they don't have a job because the only reason they had one is because the people who hired them could pay them 50 cents an hour. Then a new batch of illegals comes over and takes the place of the now unemployed nationalized citizen.
Not only that, but your article states that the holding down has kept the wages of those like yourself up. So, what that means is that if your article is to be beleived then you want to keep their wages low so yours will stay high. That's why this leads to impermanence. The bigger this wage gap becomes the harder it is to move social classes.
Oh and, btw, a lot of illegal immigrants work in the construction business which is, primarily, a group run by labor unions which traditionally are liberal. So, gg with the 'they took the conservatives jobs nah nah nah." arguement.
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