https://www.city-journal.org/html/truth-...15676.html

"...Today’s unskilled immigrants are not so lucky. Automation and offshoring to Third World countries have seriously eroded the number of blue-collar jobs. Manufacturing positions plummeted from 19.4 million in 1979 to 11.5 million in 2010, even as immigrants were adding millions to the population of job seekers. In 1970, blue-collar jobs were 31.2 percent of total nonfarm employment. By 2016, their share had fallen to 13.6 percent of total employment. Today’s immigrants are more likely to be hotel workers, agricultural hands, bussers, janitors, and hospital orderlies. They may be earning more than they could have in their home countries, but their wages—assuming they work full-time—are enough only to keep them a notch or two above the poverty line in the United States. Adding to their troubles is frequently a lack of benefits, unreliable hours, and little chance for moving up the income ladder...."

What this article doesn't discuss is the impact of these unskilled workers on our existing less skilled workers. It accepts the assumption that they are doing jobs skilled workers didn't want.

But if you look at a low immigration state like New Hampshire, you see Americans doing the jobs that immigrants do in Texas and California. Other than farmworkers, Americans can fill those unskilled jobs. But wages for those jobs are higher in New Hampshire.

But even accepting the premise, this article points out that we are creating multi-generational poverty with our current policies.