The Immigration Hustle: A New Class War on the Besieged Middle Class

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The Immigration Hustle: A New Class War on the Besieged Middle Class

The comprehensive immigration bill that passed the Senate, with the strong support of President Obama, is an attack on the American working class. It is also a sop to each party’s donor base and a wholesale embrace of cheap labor

The legislation crafted by New York Democrat Chuck Schumer and Florida Republican Marco Rubio looks to grow the economy by suppressing take-home pay for those workers least able to afford it. Under their bill, “average wages would be slightly lower than under current law through 2024,” according to the Congressional Budget Office. So American workers, who have been battered by three decades of wage stagnation and now by a recent payroll-tax hike, are being asked to take still another decade for the team. Meanwhile, the stock market flirts with new records

In the fifth year of the Obama era, this is not your father’s Democratic Party. New Deal? Fair Deal? Happy days are here again? Not so much

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/07/14/the-immigration-hustle-a-new-class-war-on-the-besieged-middle-class.html

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1. This is what I've been saying for ages. If you think legalizing millions of new workers helps wages

Go on being deluded.

This isn't race based argument, its simple economics.

Honestly I'm tired of being called racist for pointing this out. If Democrats want to further depress wages so be it. Whatever.