A interesting articles are out today, thoroughly debunking the time worn rhetoric from groups such as ALIPAC, FAIR and NUMBERSUSA about the value and worth of illegal immigrants in American society and the workplace. A new study released Wednesday concludes that undocumented immigrant workers do not drain jobs or tax dollars and have a neutral impact on the U.S. economy, reports Lynsi Burton of the Hearst Newspaper Groups, Washington Bureau in todays San Francisco Chronicle. Because illegal immigrants occupy a small share of the workforce – about 5 percent – and work low-skilled jobs at lower wages than other workers, their overall influence on the economy is trivial, according to the report, sponsored by the Migration Policy Institute, a pro-immigration MORE
