Most, if not all, immigrants are happy to be here even through they live in proverty. Poverty's Roots Peter Brimelow, Forbes Magazine, 08.21.00 One of them is high immigration rates. Mysteriously, neither mentioned immigration, unleashed after a 40-year lull by the 1965 Immigration Act.
Immigration also drives down wages for the U.S.-born poor.
About half the widening may be due to the increased supply of labor resulting from immigration. But the fact remains that, through public policy, the U.S. is importing poverty.