Immigrants are not the cause of high unemployment and low wages among U.S. born minority workers, according to a recent announcement by the Immigration Policy Center (IPC).
“Evidence suggests that there is no correlation between high levels of immigration and high unemployment among native-born workers.” According to scholar Gerald Jaynes the impact on less-educated native-born workers of competition with immigrant workers is affected by other factors such as declining factory jobs. IPC based its conclusions, however, from
