[This article from the Economic
Policy Institute makes a crucial point that’s often missing from discussions of
immigration: U.S. workers aren’t harmed by the presence of undocumented workers
and guest workers; the problem is the super-exploitation of foreign-born
workers, and the solution is ending the policies that enable this
super-exploitation.—TPOI editor]
By Daniel Costa, Economic Policy
Institute
August 27, 2019
In recent decades, far too much of
our immigration policy apparatus has ignored the interests of
workers—immigrants and U.S.-born workers alike. This apparatus has instead been
weaponized to suppress wages for employers’ gain. Immigration is an area of
policy where a few simple solutions could result in major improvements to labor
standards for all workers—but these solutions are blocked by low-road employers
who benefit from today’s anti-worker system.
To be clear, the challenge posed to
U.S. workers is not the simple presence of migrant workers in the labor market;
instead, it is the legal framework that makes these workers exploitable.[…]
Read the full article:
https://www.epi.org/publication/labor-day-2019-immigration-policy/
