Roland Martin
Are Immigrants And DACA Recipients Taking Black Jobs?
You’ve all heard this popular refrain: Undocumented and sometimes even documented immigrants threaten the jobs of American citizens. A more perverse accusation used by anti-legal immigration trolls and politicians is that these sometimes lower wage earners “take” jobs from Black people. This is a tactic often used by these trolls and politicians to create a fear-mongering wedge issue between people of color. It was a also justification used by the White House to dismantle the “Dreamers” Act.
NewsOne Now’s Roland Martin spoke with Economist William Spriggs, a professor at Howard University about the claim. Spriggs says there is no evidence.
