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President Donald Trump has endorsed new legislation that intends to cut the number of green cards from 1 million a year to 500,000 over the next decade. The bill supports an “alternative fact” that low-skilled immigrants who don’t speak English are taking jobs from American workers…
Miller cited a study by George Borjas regarding the Mariel Boatlift.
Borjas’ study on the migration of more than 100,000 Cubans into Florida in 1980 “was a direct rebuttal to a 1990 study by David Card, which found ‘virtually no effect’ on wages or unemployment rates, even among the Cuban immigrant community that was already in the area,” according to The Washington Post.
The study was refuted in an article published in the National Review, and by Michael Clemens, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development.
“The Borjas study had a critical flaw that makes the finding spurious,” Clemens wrote.
“The study focuses on a small group within that larger sample, a group where the sample shifted to include a lot more Black male workers with relatively low wages — simultaneously with the Boatlift. This has the effect of sharply reducing the average wage of people in the sample, but this had nothing to do with the Cuban influx.”
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