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The argument asserts that cities that saw the biggest influx of foreign-born workers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics — the STEM professions — saw wages for the native population climb. “A lot of people have the idea there is a fixed number of jobs,” Peri says. “It’s completely turned around.” Immigrants can boost the productivity of the overall economy, he said, “because then the pie grows and there are more jobs for other people as well and there’s not a zero-sum trade-off between natives and immigrants.”

To reduce this proposition to its root misconception, the best way to pull ourselves out of the “jobless recovery” we find ourselves in would be to fling the doors wide open and invite in hundreds of millions of workers. We can put unemployed Americans back to work by hiring millions of foreign-born workers, and increase our wages to boot.

One of their colleagues at U.C. Davis is strongly in disagreement with their research conclusions. Professor Norm Matloff has made the claims of the USCOC, the Brookings Institute, the Silicon Valley Leadership Group and Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg’s immigration reform advocacy group FWD.us, the target of his research in this area. Whereas the Chamber touts the misconception that there exists a shortage of STEM workers, Matloff and a host of other experts firmly oppose that conclusion.

Matloff says, “the H-1B work visa is fundamentally about cheap, de facto indentured labor. Furthermore, vast majority of H-1Bs, again including those hired from U.S. universities, are not doing work for which qualifed Americans are unavailable.” He notes that “employers accrue Type I wage savings by paying H-1Bs less than comparable Americans (U.S. citizens and permanent residents), while accruing Type II wage savings by hiring younger, thus cheaper, H-1Bs in lieu of older, thus more expensive (age 35+) Americans”.

The USCOC, which used to have a favorable reputation among conservatives, has exposed itself as an opportunistic huckster for the impulses of enormously wealthy people to stick it to the working and middle class in America. The Chamber will partner with anyone who will join in with their intense efforts to strong arm Congress into amnesty, which they refer to as “immigration reform”. So, the National Council of La Raza becomes a natural ally as does the National Immigration Forum, a George Soros sponsored open borders advocacy group.