Here's a short video - it's produced by the non-partisan group NumbersUSA. It features the late Texas congresswoman Barbara Jordan: [video=youtube;DDjzoyGp7rA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDjzoyGp7rA[/video] The main economic issues, as I see it, are: 1) The US is now a post-industrial consumer society. We do not have the need for vast numbers of unskilled workers that we did at the time of the industrial revolution. The waves of mass immigration of the late 19th and 20th century fed a rapidly expanding industrial machine that needed large numbers of workers. 2) The US is no longer an open continent. Immigrants now come not to farm or develop untamed wilderness, but to work in already crowded cities. 3) The cost/benefits of immigration have been extensively studied. The benefits flow mostly to the top 15% of the population. The net economic benefit to the bottom 85% is negative. 4) The negative economic impact is highly concentrated. It hurts new workers, unskilled workers, and workers in the southern border states disproportionately. It strongly affects legal citizens who are Hispanic, since they make up a significant proportion of workers in these categories. It negatively affects blacks who are entering the job market - indeed, all working class individuals.
