Basic principles Quote by Paul Samuelson

By holding down natural wage growth in labor-intensive industries, immigration serves as a subsidy for low-wage, low-productivity ways of doing business, retarding technological progress…

— Mark Krikorian

The study titled 'Impact of Immigration on Wages, by Education Level, 1994-2007' found that increased immigration had an effect of lowering wages for earlier…

— Fabrizio Moreira

For too long the U.S. immigration system has focused on accepting low-skilled immigrants. Basic economics tells us that the surge of low-skilled workers depresses…

— Mercedes Schlapp

Immigrants aren't the reason wages haven't gone up enough; those decisions are made in the boardrooms that too often put quarterly earnings over long-term…

— Barack Obama

Workers who come to the U.S. see their wages and their standard of living boosted sharply simply by crossing the border. That's a good…

— James Surowiecki

When illegal labor is used, that almost always depresses wages paid to all workers. The illegal workers can be exploited, and they will usually…

— Kris Kobach

Decades of record immigration have produced lower wages and higher unemployment for our citizens, especially for African-American and Latino workers. We are going to…

— Donald Trump

Immigration has a huge cost on social programs, and it lowers salaries and drives up unemployment.

— Marine Le Pen

To assert, as some have, that illegal immigrants do not depress wages because they do the jobs Americans refuse is the kind of nonsense…

— Mark Helprin

“we can turn to a study by the Center for Immigration Studies–a think tank that opposes immigration–which found that immigration has virtually no effect…

— Rutger Bregman

The higher the wages the fewer the jobs; the lower the wages the more the jobs.

— James Cook

If the economy is growing, people want to employ more workers. If you hire more labor, wages go up.

— Michael Hudson