Don't blame immigrants for poverty wages: the remedy is wage protections, worker rights, and better education and training for both immigrants and native-born workers.(RACE AND POVERTY)

OUR LOVE-HATE RELATIONSHIP WITH foreign-born workers has once again taken center stage in the national drama over immigration, only now it's set against a backdrop of heightened concerns over national security and an unprecedented geographic dispersal of the foreign-born. Legal as well as undocumented immigrants are widely blamed for displacing U.S. workers and driving down wages.

Yet even as vigilante groups organize to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border, and even as local ordinances restricting employment, housing, and services for undocumented workers proliferate, millions of ...

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