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Updated! Lower Wages for American Workers - Mass immigration drives down wages and working conditions.
New! Employer Sanctions - News accounts of employer convictions or confessions of hiring illegal aliens.
New! Low Immigration and High Economic Growth - America’s experience with a low level of immigration shows that we do not need mass immigration to have economic growth.
Free trade agreements - provide for freer trade in goods and services, have also been used to limit the flexibility of the United States to adjust its immigration admissions downward. Congress has warned the Executive Branch to avoid including immigration provisions in future agreements.
Why Immigration Can't Solve the Social Security Deficit - More foreign workers means more future retirees creating an endless, and increasingly costly, treadmill.
The Wages of Agricultural Workers - Experts disprove the claim that higher wages due to increased immigration enforcement would lead to a major increase in the cost of food.
Immigration and the Economy - Even studies estimating an overall gain for the economy from immigrant workers have found that it is outweighed by the fiscal cost to taxpayers.
The Cost of Immigration - A 1996 estimate (pre-welfare reform) of the fiscal burden on American taxpayers by Dr. Donald Huddle outlines $32.7 billion in costs from illegal aliens and $112 billion from legal immigrants.
National Academy of Sciences Immigration Study - Analysis of the NAS 1996-97 study of the fiscal costs of immigration.
Immigration and Job Displacement - Mass immigration displaces U.S. workers with foreign workers willing to work for lower wages.
Employment-Based Immigration - Business claims of worker shortages are aimed at holding down wages are largely disingenuous.
Immigration and Welfare - Immigrant use of welfare programs is 43 percent higher than non-immigrants' use.
Perpetual Poverty in Agricultural Labor - Current immigration policies fuel poverty in among agricultural workers.
The Costs to Local Taxpayers for Illegal or "Guest" Workers -
Summary fiscal cost estimates by state amount to $36.6 billion dollars annually for providing public K-12 education, incarceration and emergency medical care for illegal aliens and their U.S.-born children.
Guestworker Visas Issues
New! How Can Agricultural Employers Get A Legal Workforce?-"A program that provides an unlimited number of temporary agricultural workers is ignored by employers who prefer to hire illegal workers for lower wages. The provisions of this program are explained here.”
New! Increasing the H-2B Visa by Exemption - Sen. Mikulski has effectively increased the number of temporary unskilled foreign workers taking U.S. jobs through a ploy that exempts thousands of returning workers from the ceiling. | 
