Below is a letter to the editor of the Journal submitted on April 13, 2010. It was published in the April 20 Journal.
It is noteworthy that Mr. Reich in his editorial “The Jobs Picture Still Looks Bleak” (April 12) makes no mention of the effect of legal and illegal immigration on our unemployment numbers. Most of our legal and illegal immigrants are not well-educated and therefore end up competing for low-level jobs with our lower income citizens who also typically have limited education.
Our immigration is no doubt a contributing factor to the very high unemployment rate cited by Mr. Reich for those with only high school diplomas or less. But politically correct academics such as Mr. Reich rarely mention immigration’s impact on our nation’s unemployment picture.
