seven which passed in nineteen ninety-four by a strong majority. A federal judge has frozen implementation of the provision. Opponents of the measure argue that it is unconstitutional citing the nineteen eighty-two plyler v. doe Supreme Court decision striking down a Texas law that denied education to illegal alien children. The United States is currently experiencing the largest wave of immigration in its history. Each year the United States admits between seven to nine hundred thousand legal immigrants. The immigration and naturalization service estimates that five million illegal aliens now live in this country.There is a negative effect of immigration on unskilled workers and taxpayers in high immigration states. The national research council a part of the national academy of sciences did a study concluding that the negative effect of immigrants takes the form of wage losses for workers who lack a high school diploma. This is the only educational group adversely affected by immigration because such a large percentage of recent immigrants lack a high school diploma. It is only in this skill category that the proportion of immigrants is large enough to put a downward pressure on wages.The huge volume of goods and services exchanged between cities across the country creates pressure toward equalization in the price of labor. Newly arrived immigrants who take jobs in light manufacturing in a high immigrant city like Los Angeles come into direct competition with citizens doing the same work in a low immigrant city like Pittsburgh.African Americans in the work force are thirty-three percent more likely to lack a high school diploma than whites are much more affected by mass immigration. There is some evidence that indicates many employers see immigrants as more reliable and hard working than African Americans. A recent study of the Harlem labor market by Katherine Newman and Chauncy Lennon of Harvard fond that “forty one p...
