ny others who contend that illegal immigration will continue to displace low-skilled legal U.S. employees because the nature of the forces creating illegal immigration compel them to do so. In a study of the effect of multinational corporations and trade agreements like NAFTA, Ketchum finds that immigrants who come here illegally are prompted to by the natural practices of many U.S. multinationals in their own country, “The people in those countries are not stupid. They know that jobs are brought to their country for workers that lack even the slightest protections as American workers. These protections include an established minimum wage, union protection, and standards for overtime pay. If we were serious about wanting to curb illegal immigration we should go after the reason they come here illegally.”
Gene McNary confirms the general opinion in the literature that illegal immigration definitely displaces low skilled U.S. labor from legal Americans. Like other authors, McNary c
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