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Sunyaev-Zeldovich at 2024-02-14 10:33:23+00:00 ID:
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While you may discredit the New York Times for being a left-leaning paper, I will just have to say that nobel laureate Paul Krugman is a respected economist nevertheless.
You’re right to a degree of course on the social dumping part - it can lead to a downward pressure on wages in some cases. However, it's definitely a stretch to blame the problem of the working poor primarily on immigration. See https://www.usccr.gov/files/pubs/docs/IllegImmig_10-14-10_430pm.pdf for a bipartisan briefing. On page 9:
Regarding immigration - also illegal - being a net positive effect from an economical point of view. From the same briefing: