The Patriot Post® · As Many Amnestied as Jobs Created

Barack Obama is offering amnesty by executive order to some five million illegal aliens. The Daily Caller reports the significance of that number: “President Barack Obama’s unilateral amnesty will quickly add as many foreign workers to the nation’s legal labor force as the total number of new jobs created by his economy since 2009. The plans … will distribute five million work permits to illegal immigrants, and also create a new inflow of foreign college graduates for prestigious salaried jobs, according to press reports.” But there’s another angle. According to Mark Alexander in “The Demos’ REAL Strategy,” Obama does not actually intend to provide work status amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants. Alexander notes, “Labor inflation results in wage deflation. … Democrats really don’t want to dump millions of immigrant laborers, who are willing to take low wages, onto their dependable American low-income constituency, because that will, in effect, drive wages even lower, undermining the Democrats ‘living wage’ rhetoric.” More…