NY Times Admits: Illegal Migration Distorts Nation's Economy

Two weeks after President-elect Trump's win, the New York Times is coming clean about illegal immigration: admitting that coastal elites are hiring migrants for cheap labor driving down wages for everyone else. One of the primary arguments against Trump's proposed mass deportation is, "Who will do the jobs the migrants were doing?"

This raises a simple question: Why are these jobs undesirable to American workers? The answer is clear - many don't pay a livable wage.

Our faith compels us to consider this issue deeply. The Bible explicitly advocates for the poor and vulnerable. Christians should reject policies that exploit these people. And yet, the manipulation of our immigration system has created a de facto slave labor class. This exploitation not only harms migrants, but it also distorts the economy, suppressing wages, and reducing opportunities for American workers.

For decades we've lived with a Faustian Bargain of sending good paying jobs overseas in exchange for cheap stuff. The result? An unaffordable economy that fails the working class, marked by stagnant wages and declining opportunities.

The America First mandate from November election has brought us to a moment of truth: the immigration system is not broken. It's been deliberately manipulated by coastal elites and some American businesses so they can profit at the expense of American citizens and the most vulnerable among us.

(Breitbart News) “Border concerns, driven as much by real challenges as manufactured ones — and wrapped up with voters’ other worries about the economy, housing prices, and crime — … fueled rightward shifts across the country, pollsters and strategists said,” admitted a November 15 article by Jazmine Ulloa, who usually ignores Americans’ views in her sympathetic coverage of migrants.

The admission is a win for ordinary Americans because the newspaper’s reluctant and late admission may open the way for many establishment outlets to show how migration shifts wealth and power from ordinary Americans to coastal elites.

The pocketbook impact of migration has been hidden by media-magnified claims of “xenophobia” or “racism.”

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Further reading...U.S. meatpacking industry relies on immigrant workers (as much as 40%). But a labor shortage looms.