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For every reaction....
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   ....there is [1]an equal and opposite reaction. That is just as true
   of our government's decisions regarding immigration as it is of any
   other decision that Congress makes.

     "Remarkably, as far as we know, no study has examined if there is a
     link between the resurgence of large-scale immigration and the
     employment and incarceration trends in the black population,"
     co-authors George Borjas, Jeffrey Grogger, and Gordon Hanson write
     in Immigration and African-American Employment Opportunities: The
     Response of Wages, Employment, and Incarceration to Labor Supply
     Shocks (NBER Working Paper No.12518). The authors are careful to
     point out that even without increased immigration, most of the fall
     in employment and increase in jailed black men would have happened
     anyway. Nevertheless, the racially disproportionate effects of
     immigration on employment are strikingâ¦.
     The observed correlations suggest that immigration is an important
     underlying factor influencing the observed trends. In particular,
     their analysis finds that a 10 percent rise in immigrants in a
     particular skill group significantly trimmed the wages of black and
     white men alike. For African-Americans, the decline was 3.6
     percent. For whites, it was actually slightly higher: 3.8 percent.
     Beyond that, however, the black-white experience differed markedly,
     especially for low-skilled workers. Take employment rates: from
     1960 to 2000, black high school dropouts saw their employment rates
     drop 33 percentage points ââ from 88.6 percent to 55.7 percent --
     the authors found in their analysis of census data from 1960 to
     2000. The decrease for white high school dropouts was only roughly
     half that ââ from 94.1 percent to 76.0 percent.

   So there is evidence to suggest that blacks are directly harmed by
   illegal immigration, both in terms of increased unemployment and in
   terms of increase crime and imprisonment.
   Perhaps someone should tell the Democrats in the Senate -- the
   supposed champions of the blacks -- that their impending legislation
   will hurt a core constituency.

References

   1. http://www.democracy-project.com/archives/003322.html