“Study after study has shown that immigrants grow the economy, expanding demand for goods and services that the foreign-born workers and their families consume, and thereby creating jobs. There is even broad agreement among economists that while immigrants may push down wages for some, the overall effect is to increase average wages for American-born workers.”

With the recent passage of Arizona’s fascist immigration law, there will be more laws coming that place the blame for our economic woes on immigrant populations, instead of on the military industrial complex filled with no-bid contracts for Halliburton. Take a quick read of FactCheck.org’s report and you will have the ammunition needed to confront those who will trot out the tired “Immigrants cost American Jobs” party line.

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