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Myth: Immigrants take jobs that Americans don't want. Fact: A study of the low-end jobs at the Los Angeles Hotel Industry conducted by the General Accounting Office showed that many of those jobs used to be held by native unionized blacks. They are now taken over by non-unionized immigrants. Furthermore, many of those jobs in states with low-levels of immigration are still held by natives. Myth: We have a shortage of farm workers. Fact: Dolores Huerta, the Co-founder of the United Farm Workers' Union, has testified that with 1.5 million legalized farm workers and that California only has 250,000 jobs for farm workers, we don't have a shortage of farm workers. Also, wages of farm workers have actually fallen - another indication that we don't have a shortage of farm workers. Myth: Silicon Valley cannot be so successful without immigrants. Fact: Most recipients of awards for technological advances given by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering) and the ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) have been natives. In fact, a study by UC Davis Computer Science Professor Norman Matloff found that many immigrant and U.S.-born computer programmers over age 35 are being displaced by college graduates and H-1B "temporary" foreign workers. Myth: There is a high percentage of foreign-born students in our graduate schools and by restricting immigration we will risk missing out on geniuses like Einstein. Fact: A joint study released in 1996 by Stanford University and the prestigeous and pro-immigration Rand Corp. showed that the United States had an oversupply of PhDs. Less than 1% of the immigrants admitted to this country each year have outstanding talents. Furthermore, even if all immigrants are Nobel Laureates, do we wish the U.S. one day to be as crowded as China currently is, even if every single resident is a genius? |
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