Harvard Twist? Immigrants and Black Unemployment

Immigrants have been accused of debasing our culture, overcrowding our schools and hospitals, and lowering our wages. Now a Harvard professor is blaming them for sending African-Americans to jail....The Borjas Blame Game, By Diana Furchtgott-Roth, The New York Sun, 10/13/2006

George Borjas is in an interesting position. A cynic might say that he's playing quite a few sides. He's Cuban, so that covers a diversity goal. And he takes the blame for black incarceration as an immigrant, a position remarkably similar to a white professor gaining favor (and tenure) by basking in the guilt of "skin privilege." NY Sun reporter Diana Furchtgott-Roth is impatient with that.

The major problem with Mr. Borjas's argument is that young black men began withdrawing from the labor force in the 1960s, when the share of immigrants in the labor force was less than 1%....(Blame Game, Furchtgott-Roth, continued)

This latter statistic, first noted in the early 1970s by Daniel Patrick Moynihan in his essays on the effect of welfare on black families, probably won't be reported in MSM coverage of this immigration "scandal."

Immigration is a problem but it isn't helped by people of highly skewed motivations offering even more skewed analyses.

Luther