Time to Level Playing Field for Working Poor in U.S - Froma Harrop
May 16, 2009
By Froma Harrop
The Obama administration has launched some early immigration reforms, and they make sense. Notably, it has moved the brunt of enforcement away from the unauthorized workers and onto those who hire them.
Of all the players in this drama, the illegal immigrants are the least blameworthy. They are hard workers who took advantage of what any reasonable person would have seen as an open labor market.
That does not justify the continued hiring of them at the expense of our most vulnerable populations. Rest assured that if college grads were to flood illegally into this country and depress the salaries of Americans who make and write about policy, the laws would have been enforced long ago.
The National Ledger
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