Immigration: what makes it work
Posted at 10:08 pm on 12 Jan 10 by Owen Tudor
The American TUC, the AFL-CIO, reports that progressive think tanks have produced a report which sets out how immigration can work for both the economy as a whole, existing workforces and the migrants themselves. In Raising the Floor for American Workers, the Center for American Progress and the Immigration Policy Center indicate that the current US system is unsustainable.
Attempts to close the border and crack down on illegal immigrants don’t work. What is needed, instead, is to ensure that everyone working in the US is treated fairly, and migrants should be offered a path to citizenship so that they don’t disappear into the informal economy. This is pretty much the same prescription as the TUC and others have advocated for the UK.
