RSSIllegal Immigration Ad Draws Fire
Carolyn Hileman - The Voice* | February 29, 2008
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A local civil rights leader said some anti-illegal immigration commercials on TV are trying to stir up trouble.
The ads have been airing in Kansas City and on KMBC-TV for several weeks. The commercial comes from a group called the Coalition for the Future American Worker.
The ad claims illegal immigration hurts the job prospects for black men. “Studies show immigration accounts for 40 percent of the decline in the employment of black men,” the commercial said.
KMBC’s Micheal Mahoney reported that the statistic is misleading. An expert said immigrants, both legal and illegal, make up about 8 percent of workers in the United States. If the immigrant workforce was 10 percent, that would depress wages by about 4 percent, not 40 percent, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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