Tom Cotton: There’s a Direct Correlation Between the Mass Unskilled, Low Skilled Migration and Stagnant Wages

‘Over the last 40 years, my lifetime, you’ve seen a quadrupling of the number of foreign born residents in our country’

EXCERPT:

COTTON: "Look, over the last 40 years, my lifetime, you’ve seen a quadrupling of the number of foreign-born residents in our country. The vast majority of those, 14 out of 15 today, come here not based on their skills or their education and their English language ability, on some other category. By definition, unskilled and low skilled. In that 40 year window, if you have a high school degree or less, your wages have fallen. If you have more than that, if you are not competing with those very same immigrants, your wages have increased. So there is a direct correlation between the mass unskilled, low skilled migration we have seen over the last few decades and stagnant wages and standards of living for working Americans.”

Video files
Full
Compact
Audio files
Full
Compact