“...the new wave of immigration, which, like the others, has met a very real demand for labor, and enriched America.” DK
Glaucon X: "That’s a really tough sell to people in the bottom half of the income ladder since there is no evidence that this supposed immigration caused enrichment of America has benefited them. Also, I’m not familiar with any economic data indicating the existence of any significant demand for labor that needed to be met--job growth has been tepid at best since the brief tech related boom of the late 1990s. So what we have is a wave of mass immigration corresponding with a period of economic decline over the last few decades that produced nothing but immiseration for a large number of Americans. It would be quite phenomenal if these Americans did not associate their own impoverishment with concurrent mass immigration, which they are reminded of every day whenever they hear Spanish."
Most unfortunately, it is not the terrible consequences of immigration, itself, which is critical at all, though they are bad.
On the contrary, rogue immigration is, in a real sense, even now, a red herring issue, for the Establishment. They all know this very very well.
The underlying problem for Americans and for the West is global income convergence.
Professor Kaiser, no less than Piketty, or the NYT, do not touch the issue, because it is toxic, and now frankly insoluble, for their brand of globalist liberalism.
Glaucon X: "That’s a really tough sell to people in the bottom half of the income ladder since there is no evidence that this supposed immigration caused enrichment of America has benefited them. Also, I’m not familiar with any economic data indicating the existence of any significant demand for labor that needed to be met--job growth has been tepid at best since the brief tech related boom of the late 1990s. So what we have is a wave of mass immigration corresponding with a period of economic decline over the last few decades that produced nothing but immiseration for a large number of Americans. It would be quite phenomenal if these Americans did not associate their own impoverishment with concurrent mass immigration, which they are reminded of every day whenever they hear Spanish."
Most unfortunately, it is not the terrible consequences of immigration, itself, which is critical at all, though they are bad.
On the contrary, rogue immigration is, in a real sense, even now, a red herring issue, for the Establishment. They all know this very very well.
The underlying problem for Americans and for the West is global income convergence.
Professor Kaiser, no less than Piketty, or the NYT, do not touch the issue, because it is toxic, and now frankly insoluble, for their brand of globalist liberalism.
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