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In this eleventh installment of our multi-part series on the horrors of illegal aliens present in our country - a fact that liberal politicians on both sides of the aisle have embraced with suggestions of amnesty programs when instead we should require assimilation programs for legal immigrants – FSM’s research and editorial staffs document how the American worker and American jobs are the big losers in this game. The loss is so great, here is only Part One.

Many people, especially those of a liberal persuasion, say that illegal alien immigration is not a real crime because it is “victimless” and that the illegal aliens are “only doing the work that Americans won’t.” In actual fact however, illegal immigration distorts the law of supply and demand in a capitalistic society. In fact, regarding wages, it is hypocritical to want to raise the minimum wage on one hand while the other hand wink at illegal immigrants working at far below prevailing wages. The victim, then, is the American worker and taxpayer.

But don’t take our word for it; read the following to see just how bad this situation is, and how illegal alien populations have changed the working prospects of America’s middle class:

The National Academy of Science reported in Dropping Out - Immigrant Entry and Native Exit from the Labor Market, 2000-2005 that from 1980 to 1995 there was a 44% of the decline in the real wages of high school dropouts as a result of immigration.

A commentary, Mass Immigration Takes Greatest Toll on African-Americans, by Dan Stein, Executive Director, Federation for American Immigration Reform, notes that:

“In some cases the influx of immigrants has allowed native-born workers to move up the ladder. But in all too many other instances, mass immigration has moved American workers off the ladder entirely, particularly black Americans. According to a report by the National Academy of Sciences done during the economic boom of the late-1990s, the dramatic rise in immigration was a direct cause of dramatic declines in jobs and income for Americans with a high school education or less.
If one tracks the economic progress of African-Americans, or the lack of it, over the past century there is an unmistakable correlation with patterns of immigration. Blacks have made the greatest