The Washington Times
The head of Miami's Urban League chapter and a Texas Republican congressman are challenging civil rights groups to address the effect that increased illegal immigration has had on black unemployment.
"All we are saying is that there needs to be a conversation about it, and I don't understand how any organization that claims to be in existence to champion the betterment of African-Americans, their employment, education and civil rights would not address this issue," said T. Willard Fair, president of the Greater Miami Urban League.
He testified recently before the House Judiciary Committee's immigration subcommittee and quoted heavily from Harvard University professor and researcher George Borjas and others, who have concluded that illegal immigration has cut the wages of American men with no education beyond high school by $1,800 a year.
Posted by tyne at May 15, 2007