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Why unskilled immigrants hurt America:
In the old days, we cried 'give me your tired, your poor,' but today's welfare and social- services apparatus enormously raises the cost of immigration July 23, 2006
By Steven Malanga
The day after Librado Velasquez arrived on Staten Island after a long, surreptitious journey from his home in Chiapas, Mexico, he headed out to a street corner to wait with other illegal immigrants looking for work. Velasquez, who had supported his wife, seven kids, and his in-laws as a campesino, or peasant farmer, until a 1998 hurricane devastated his farm, eventually got work, off the books, loading trucks at a small New Jersey factory, which hired illegals for jobs that required few special skills. The arrangement suited both, until a work injury sent Velasquez to the local emergency room, where federal law required that he be treated, though he could not afford to pay for his care. After five operations, he is now permanently disabled and has remained in the United States to pursue compensation claims.
EARLIER IMMIGRANTS HAD SKILLS
WELCOME TO THE WELFARE STATE
UNSKILLED IMMIGRANTS LOWER WAGES
ENDING UP ON SOCIETY'S MARGINS
IMMIGRANTS DON'T CLIMB THE LADDER
END SOCIAL AID TO IMMIGRANTS
Manhattan Institute ... grants.htm
In the old days, we cried 'give me your tired, your poor,' but today's welfare and social- services apparatus enormously raises the cost of immigration July 23, 2006
By Steven Malanga
The day after Librado Velasquez arrived on Staten Island after a long, surreptitious journey from his home in Chiapas, Mexico, he headed out to a street corner to wait with other illegal immigrants looking for work. Velasquez, who had supported his wife, seven kids, and his in-laws as a campesino, or peasant farmer, until a 1998 hurricane devastated his farm, eventually got work, off the books, loading trucks at a small New Jersey factory, which hired illegals for jobs that required few special skills. The arrangement suited both, until a work injury sent Velasquez to the local emergency room, where federal law required that he be treated, though he could not afford to pay for his care. After five operations, he is now permanently disabled and has remained in the United States to pursue compensation claims.
EARLIER IMMIGRANTS HAD SKILLS
WELCOME TO THE WELFARE STATE
UNSKILLED IMMIGRANTS LOWER WAGES
ENDING UP ON SOCIETY'S MARGINS
IMMIGRANTS DON'T CLIMB THE LADDER
END SOCIAL AID TO IMMIGRANTS
Manhattan Institute ... grants.htm