Some Lunchtime Reading on Immigration

Via Don Jim is this article on the cost of an immigrant, particularly a low-wage Mexican immigrant.

Of course the anti-immigration crowd is a slippery one. When they aren't snarling over the genetic unfitness of Mexicans or the linguistic inferiority of Castillian (hah!), they are weeping big tears over the fact that more immigration lowers the wages of the black folks, or that immigration is bad because it makes the immigrant work for low wages (!).

Anti-immigrant types: Go back to Ireland.