Speech #960185603

North has done extensive work in this area and is extremely knowledgeable on the issue. His findings reveal two major problems with the Cornelius study. First. the Cornelius study is not accurate when it states that unemployment is lower in areas of high concentrations of illegal aliens than in the Nation as a whole. The North computations show "that in 1978. at any rate. heavy flows of immigration from Mexico coincided with aboveaverage unemployment rates. on a citybycity basis." However. he also points out that these statistics are not the main issue. "The central point is that the presence of substantial numbers of additional. usually hardworking. often docile. often exploited workers can only serve to flood already overstocked labor markets. thereby causing working conditions and the reward for work to remain stable. or perhaps decline relatively. The governmentallytolerated imbalance at the bottom of the labor market only serves to further skew Americas income distribution. making the rich richer and the poor poorer." Second. Mr. North goes on to show how several recent studies strongly indicate that illegal aliens are using various taxsupported programs. I ask that Mr. Norths statement be printed in the RECORD.