If you really think about it the biggest victims of illegal immigration's impact on wages and hiring patterns are legal Latinos and African Americans.
This is nothing new, of course. Right after the Civil War, instead of working with the newly freed huge former slave population, the powers that be just imported people en masse from Eastern Europe, Potato Famine-ravaged/English oppression-ravaged Ireland, Southern Europe, and to a lesser degree, China (until the Chinese Exclusion Act of the 1880s).
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