Immigration Reality: Immigrant Labor Improves Job Prospects For the Native Born

Should those who believe otherwise care to listen, here is an analysis of the beneficial economic facts of immigration, . 

Immigrant Labor Improves Job Prospects For the Native Born | AlterNet: Recently, economist Giovanni Peri -- an associate professor at the University of California, Davis and visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco -- wrote a paper for the Fed summarizing recent research in immigration economics. Evaluating the data, Peri concluded that, “on net, immigrants expand the U.S. economy’s productive capacity, stimulate investment, and promote specialization that in the long run boosts productivity. Consistent with previous research, there is no evidence that these effects take place at the expense of jobs for workers born in the United States.” Sept. 21, 2010