On June 27, 2013, the Senate passed the Schumer-Rubio immigration bill (S.744) which, among other things, doubled the levels of legal immigration and guestworkers. One year after that vote, a new Center for Immigration Studies report suggests just how out of touch the bill was from the realities of the labor market.
In the last few months, 47,000 refugee children stormed America’s southern border. They arrived from Central and South America. The usual onslaught from Mexico’s overburdened population continued by the thousands.