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Two Republican senators are working on a bill that would radically alter the rules on legal immigration to the U.S. That's according to an article in Politico, which reports that the bill would have President Trump’s support. The measure would cut legal immigration into the country in half, by 2027. That's in line with one major Trump promise — but it could be at odds with another...
Michael Clemens...recently co-published a paper looking at historical efforts to staunch the flow of legal immigrants: Chinese workers in the 1880s, Italians in the 1920s, and Mexicans in the 1960s. "And the argument every time was that this is going to create jobs for US workers, raise wages for US workers, there's no evidence in any of these historical cases and others that that actually happened."
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