"Seldom do employer lobbies admit that so-called 'immigration reform' is all about profits. In a recent memo summarizing a poll carried out by Fwd.US and America's Voice, two organizations that lobby for higher immigration levels, three Democratic polling firms - Global Strategy Group, Garin-Hart-Young, and LD Insights - recommended leading with heart-warming tales about reunited families and other happy talk, rather than with economic arguments: "In general, it is better to focus on all of the aforementioned sympathetic details of those affected than to make economic arguments, including arguments about wages and demand for labor. As we have seen in the past, talking about jobs Americans won't do is not a helpful frame, and other economic arguments are less effective than what is recommended above.
...the desire of American employers in many low-wage sectors of the economy to pay workers as little as possible and to keep wages from rising by importing foreign labor is insatiable. Low-wage employers therefore must not be given the opportunity to hire, except under strict limits, from the global labor pool - in spite of the high cost in transnational criminality and widespread disregard for the law that immigration restrictions and enforcement can engender. As Barbara Jordan observed a generation ago: "The commission finds no national interest in continuing to import lesser-skilled and unskilled workers to compete in the most vulnerable parts of our labor force."
