"Back in the 1990s, Barbara Jordan wrote "They found no natural interest in continuing to import lesser skilled and unskilled workers to compete in the most vulnerable parts of our labor force."
National Bureau of Economic Research found the 1980-2000 immigrant influx generally explains about 20 to 60 percent of the decline in black working-class wages, 25 percent of a decline in employment, and a 10 percent rise in incarceration rates among black Americans with a high school education or less.
In a 2019 Harvard/Harris Poll, a large majority of black and hispanic Americans said they would vote for a presidential candidate who stood for strengthening our border security to reduce illegal immigration."