What’s behind the recent rise in wages for undocumented
workers? It could be immigrants’ rights activism.
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| Graffiti on the Mexican side of the wall. Photo: Jonathan McIntosh / Flickr |
David L. Wilson, Jacobin
October 16, 2017
Last Sunday, Trump’s White House released a list of
immigration demands that Democrats must meet if they want to renew the Deferred
Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which has protected hundreds of
thousands of young immigrants from deportation. The demands, if met, would mean
more criminalization, more surveillance, and more fear for undocumented
immigrants.
Republicans justify this punitive approach by insisting that
immigrants are “taking our jobs,” driving down wages for citizens and making
the economic situation more desperate for all.
But a look back at a decade of data shows that if
Republicans’ goal is to bolster wages, they’re going about it all wrong.[...]
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