01/12/2016
Mark Krikorian notices what Obama had to say about immigration and wages:Preview #SOTU: "Immigrants aren’t the reason wages haven’t gone up enough". But he said "principal reason". Even Obama knows it’s *a* reason
— Mark Krikorian (@MarkSKrikorian) January 13, 2016
In that respect, Obama is doing better than the Cato Institute. But NumbersUSA points out that Senator Obama knew even better in 2006:
Wanna help struggling Americans? Stop the MASS #immigration depressing wages of workers
Obama said it in 06’#SOTU pic.twitter.com/hWHvdUzOve
— NumbersUSA (@NumbersUSA) January 13, 2016
The quote is from Obama’s campaign bio, The Audacity Of Hope. Last year, Neil Munro dug it up and quoted it:
“[T]here’s no denying that many blacks share the same anxieties as many whites about the wave of illegal immigration flooding our Southern border — a sense that what’s happening now is fundamentally different from what has gone on before,” then-Senator Obama wrote in his 2006 autobiography, “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream.””Not all these fears are irrational,” he wrote.
“The number of immigrants added to the labor force every year is of a magnitude not seen in this country for over a century,” Obama noted. “If this huge influx of mostly low-skill workers provides some benefits to the economy as a whole — especially by keeping our workforce young, in contrast to an increasingly geriatric Europe and Japan — it also threatens to depress further the wages of blue-collar Americans and put strains on an already overburdened safety net.”
Right, he just forgot to say "When I’m elected, I'll make it much, much worse."
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