The New York Times Ignores NAS Findings That Immigration Policies Hit Poor, Minorities Hardest
Published:
Fri, Sep 23rd 2016 @ 9:35 am EDT by Eric Ruark
Julia Preston wrote an article for The New York Times with the headline “Immigrants Aren’t Taking Americans’ Jobs, New Study Finds.” The study referred to was just put out by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) entitled The Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration. Note the absence in the title of any mention of “Labor Market,” “Employment,” or “Jobs.” That is because the purpose of the NAS study was to examine the effects of immigration on the size of the U.S. economy, the wages of native workers, and the balance of government budgets. The NAS was not trying to determine if immigrants “take Americans’ jobs.”
The headline of the Times article is a gross mischaracterization, but it adequately conveys the substance of Preston’s reporting, which deliberately misleads her readers. She writes that the NAS researchers asked the question, “Do immigrants take jobs from Americans and lower their wages by working for less,?” and found that the answer was “no.” This sentence is completely false. The NAS did not take up the job displacement issue, and it did, in fact, find a reduction in wages for Americans who compete most directly with immigrants for jobs.
Here is what the report actually said:
https://www.numbersusa.com/blog/new-york-times-ignores-nas-findings-immigration-policies-hit-poor-minorities-hardest
