Immigration Hurts Low-Skilled Workers, Congressional Budget Office Says

Immigration Hurts Low-Skilled Workers, Congressional Budget Office Says
A large group of illegal aliens boards a bus bound for the Border Patrol processing facility after being apprehended by Border Patrol near McAllen, Texas, on April 18, 2019. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times
Matthew Vadum
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Immigration may boost the U.S. economy overall, but it doesn’t help individual workers, especially those at lower end of the wage scale who face increased competition for jobs from the new arrivals, according to a new report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).

The report comes at a time when President Donald Trump has been able to make little progress in changing immigration laws, his signature campaign promise. Democrats, and some Republicans, want illegal aliens to be given amnesty and disagree with efforts to limit family-based immigration, which contributes many poorly educated and unskilled workers to the workforce.