Nobody gets a raise as long as there is
cheaper labor there that keeps that down--no effective raise. So
between $99 billion and $118 billion. That is the Harvard economist,
George Borjas. That is the annual wages loss because of illegal
immigration. If we go to the next page on this, it lays out the conditions, and we
are seeing this. This is a number from the Pew Hispanic Center in 2009. It says that there are 8.3 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S.
labor force. They recently estimated that number is actually ratcheted
down to about 8 million. It doesn't say why.
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