Illegal immigration hurts America’s poor

Carolyn Hileman* | January 8, 2007

Illegal immigration is usually presented as a win-win situation: Undocumented foreigners earn far more than they could back home. Consumers get a bargain. Nowhere to be seen are America’s working poor, who get stomped on 13 different ways. They have to compete with illegal immigrants for jobs and housing. Low-skilled natives and legal immigrants also end up subsidizing the undocumented because they tend to live in the same communities, which must provide hospitals, police, schools and garbage pickup. Who doesn’t suffer from illegal immigration? For starters, the people who write about it.

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