Even liberals should support controlling our borders and restricting immigration of uneducated and low-skill workers. Larry Auster and a New York Times (sic!) op-ed explain why.
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One point, mentioned only tangentially or implicitly in the piece by Larry Auster and in the New York Times op-ed article he references, deserve some emphasis: a major source of the income gap, one of the holy-of-holies of liberal-socialism.
Socialism’s definition of social justice is income and property-ownership equality. So, by definition, no matter how much money the lowest income levels make, the existence of a gap between them and the top levels is transgression of social justice, if not a crime against humanity.
It should be obvious that the flood of low-skill, poorly educated Mexican workers is bound to increase the income gap by dragging down the lower levels, even should the income of top levels of earners stand still.
Larry Auster’s June 3, 2006, post in View From The Right ("Low-skilled immigrant workers not needed, says establishment economist in Times") summarizes the arguments advanced in the Times op-ed by Barry R. Chiswick, who is head of the economics department at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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