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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This article provides informative analysis as to how immigration was a major factor that cost Hillary the election.

[i]Democrats point to a thousand reasons that Hillary Clinton lost the presidential election. Here is another.

In political circles, it’s common knowledge that in four key states President Trump unexpectedly carried counties that Democratic presidential campaign strategists had failed to recognize as crucial terrain — sparsely populated areas of Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

What Democrats missed was the profound political impact recent immigration trends were having on the more rural parts of the once homogeneous Midwest — that the region had unexpectedly become a flash point in the nation’s partisan immigration wars.

The immigration stance of the Clinton campaign contrasted with Obama’s record. While Obama called for immigrants who were brought into this country as children to be allowed to stay, he stressed policies calling for the deportation of criminals and in fact deported more people than George W. Bush or Bill Clinton.[/i]

[url]https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/opinion/clinton-trump-immigration.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion[/url][/quote]

Lack of indicators of a shortage

Starting with its first big campaign to convince Congress to expand the H-1B in 1997, the tech industry has asserted a tech labour shortage. Yet, other than one survey conducted by the industry trade group ITAA (ITAA, 1997), no study has ever confirmed the shortage claims (See Matloff, 2003 for a survey of the studies conducted around that time).

Vivek Wadhwa, a former tech CEO who now writes about the tech industry, conducted his own survey and found no evidence of a shortage.[b] He remarked that the industry's claim of a “shortage” is actually “a shortage of engineers below market price that work day and night like slave labor” (Overby,2007).[/b]

In 2011, wages of experienced workers in Silicon Valley had increased only 3% since 2009 (Carey, 2011). Interestingly, the online jobs board Dice.com gave anecdotal evidence of a shortage but then admitted that tech salaries had risen less than 1% during 2009-2010 (Dice, 2011). Costa (2012) found that wages in computer and mathematical occupations have been increasing only 0.5% per year since 2000. None of these figures indicates a shortage.[/quote]

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