They will go where natural forces draw them. If. [ were to tell my manufacturing friends in Massachusetts that competition does not lower prices. they would start to discourse on the incapacity of Members of Congress. Yet those very manufacturers will turn around and tell me that immigration has no effect on wages in the textile industries. Perhaps they may be right. but if so. labor is the only commodity in the Nvide. wide world whose price is not reduced by competition. To be sure. in flush times. the effect of immigration may only be to keep wages from rising as fast as they otherwise might. When two jobs are looking for one man. no amount of imnmigration will lower wages. but wait until two men are looking for one job and then see what happens.
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