Speech #1040192272

New York. and Texas. that mens wages were 2.6 percent and womens wages 3.1 percent below the average for other States that were not highimmigration States. Dr. Frank Morris. the immediate past president of the Council of Historically Black Graduate Schools. said there can be no doubt that our current practice of permitting more than 1 million legal and illegal immigrants per year into the United States. into our already difficult lowskilled labor markets. clearly leads to both wage depression and the de facto displacement of AfricanAmerican workers with low skills. The Urban Institute says this. The immigration reduces the weekly earnings of lessskilled AfricanAmerican men and women and also that group most clearly and severely disadvantaged by newly arrived immigrants is other recent immigrants. A 10percent increase in the number of immigrants reduces other immigrants wages by 9 to 10 percent. Finally. in a book by Julian Simon. the patrol saint of the openborders proponents. he says this: "There is no doubt that workers In some industries suffer immediate injury from the addition of immigrant workers in these same categories." Mr. Chairman. I reserve the balance of my time.