Mr. Chairman. I would like to cite some studies that have been done on the question of how legal immigrants. competition with legal immigrants. depresses wages and costs jobs. and I just do not see how the proponents of this amendment can ignore these studies when we know we are dealing with real lives and real hardship. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. immigration was responsible for 50 percent of the decline in real wages for Americas lowest scale workers. those who did not complete high school. A recent study by the Economic Policy Institute says that in the highimmigration States of Arizona. California.
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