When the federal government banned the use of farmworkers from Mexico in 1964, California’s tomato growers did not enlist Americans to harvest the fragile crop. They replaced the lost workers with tomato-picking machines.
The Trump administration on Wednesday embraced a proposal to sharply reduce legal immigration, which it said would preserve jobs and lead to higher wages — the same argument advanced by the Kennedy and Johnson administrations half a century ago.
But economists say the tomato story and a host of related evidence show that there is no clear connection between less immigration and more jobs for Americans.....
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/03/us/politics/legal-immigration-jobs-economy.html?emc=edit_nn_20170804&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=78638145&te=1&_r=1
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