Why Liberals Should Oppose the Immigration Bill: Its About Low-Wage American Workers
If I have a plea to my fellow liberals more broadly, it’s that they focus more of their empathy on fellow Americans being left behind. Because we increasingly live in bubbles, many of us are at best only abstractly aware of how cruelly circumstances of unskilled Americans have deteriorated over the past few decades. Even as these Americans have lost their well-paid manufacturing jobs, Washington has looked the other way while millions of low-skilled unauthorized immigrants have competed with them for low-skilled service jobs. The insouciance of privileged Americans toward the effects of this on life among less-privileged Americans is, in my view, a betrayal of citizenship.
As he points out, to a large extent, immigration reform is a method by which the wealthiest Americans get low cost workers, while Americans at the bottom of the job ladder get more competition, driving down wages.
If the Republican Party were not completely sold out to the same crooks that own the Democratic Party, they would be loudly opposing illegal immigration for the enormous damage it does to the poorest Americans. But that is another flying pigs event.
