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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They do not realize they were getting destroyed by Hasan.
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Hasan repeatedly lies throughout the debates.  At one point he says immigrants don't affect wages, despite decades of evidence to show exactly that.  [/quote]

Ok, where is your evidence?

Most studies show that there is no change to skilled or white collar labor, minimal for unskilled.  Overall a net positive for wages.  The economy as a whole grows.[/quote]

You have got to be joking on the wages?  Look what the average wage bought in terms of housing years ago compared to today?  Most studies today do not rely on open data sets with published methodologies that have been replicated.  You're welcome to point to specific work, but I doubt it stands up.

If you want, you could look into Borjas, who says that there are some economic gains from immigration, but the benefits overwhelmingly accrue to business owners.  Wealthy inequality increases over the past 40 years show as much.  Also, these calculations often fail to account for the public debt incurred by supporting immigrants.  Look no further than the net taxes paid/received by demography.

Yes, number goes up but the vast majority of people do not benefit.  Hasan lies about that problem among many other things such as the fact whites aren't native to America.  He's a clown no honest person should ever believe.  [/quote]

Accrual of wealth at the top is a failure of economic policy, not immigration.[/quote]

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