Business Week: Unchecked Immigration a Key Factor in Keeping America's "Working Poor" Poor

FAIR reports:

In a display of unusual candor, Business Week recognized recently the negative impact immigration - coupled with globalization - has in perpetuating an army of permanently poor, hard-working Americans. In its May 31, 2004 cover story "Working... and Poor," the financial magazine states that a flood of immigrants, mostly from Mexico, is swelling the low-end labor pool and throwing least-skilled Americans into direct competition with people willing to work for pennies on the dollar...