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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nothing you posted says we need more unskilled immigrants.[/quote]

I'm so confused, but who posted this?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/08/business/economy/immigrants-skills-economy-jobs.html

[quote]But it is largely wrong. It misses many things: that less-skilled immigrants are also consumers of American-made goods and services; that their cheap labor raises economic output and also reduces prices. It misses the fact that their children tend to have substantially more skills. In fact, the children of immigrants contribute more to state fiscal coffers than do other native-born Americans, according to a report by the National Academies.

What is critical to understand, in light of the current political debate, is that contrary to conventional wisdom, less-skilled immigration does not just knock less-educated Americans out of their jobs. It often leads to the creation of new jobs — at better wages — for natives, too. Notably, it can help many Americans to move up the income ladder. And by stimulating investment and reallocating work, it increases productivity.[/quote][/quote]

Projection and nothing else. Get your natives to wash dishes instead of lobbying for creation of the permanent underclass. [/quote]

You've got to drop the "permanent underclass" line, because it's not working.  Allowing our economy to continue to use illegal labor is what creates the underclass.  Regularlizing labor is what makes them socially mobile.

Even as it is now, immigration creates social mobility in families:

"their children tend to have substantially more skills. In fact, the children of immigrants contribute more to state fiscal coffers than do other native-born Americans, according to a report by the National Academies."

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/08/business/economy/immigrants-skills-economy-jobs.html[/quote]

That their children have more skills is not a tall bar to clear, considering that their parents have nine. Children of educated affluent immigrants also have more skills and contribute to state coffers so why the preference for the illiterate? [/quote]

because somebody has to pick the fruits and vegetables?  [/quote]

Get your natives to do that.[/quote]

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