The Sconi

Newsweek Deputy Opinion Editor Batya Ungar-Sargon wants working class citizens to be clear about what she sees as their ongoing victimization.

"Among Americans, it is the elites who benefit from open borders, people whose professional-class jobs would never be threatened by someone who doesn’t speak English,” Batya Ungar-Sargon said. “For the American working classes, good jobs are sacrificed on the altar of helping those from other countries."

Ungar-Sargon backs up her argument with points made by economist George Borjas, including that "immigration primarily boosts the incomes of the immigrants themselves, while redistributing wealth from the native poor to the native rich."

For low-income Americans, "good jobs are sacrificed on the altar of helping those from other countries" the theory likewise advances.

During July alone, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) made nearly 200,000 arrests at the southern border, as President Joe Biden’s push for looser border policies has triggered a study influx of migrants ever since he took over at the White House. The growing number of illegals nabbed along the border represents a near 30% increase from July 2021 when there were 154,288 encounters.

Despite all the mounting research that points to open border policies hurting low-income Americans the most, U.S. Senate candidate Mandela Barnes of Wisconsin has been among the group of democratic leaders clamoring in favor of the "Defund the Police" movement.

As recently as in 2021, a study found immigration has accounted for at least a third of the decline in the black employment rate over the last 40 years. In the face of all the struggle hardship and struggle, sociologist Musa al Gharbi recently opined “Black Americans are more supportive of limiting immigration than any other bloc of the Democratic coalition. And Hispanics actually tend to be more concerned about illegal immigration than are whites or Blacks.”

In 2019, a large majority of black and Hispanic voters went on record with their intentions to vote for a presidential candidate who stood for strengthening border security, all as part of an overall plan to reduce illegal immigration, which has been linked to a 20% to 60% decline in black working-class wages.

Through it all, Barnes recently told Vote Smart he stands in opposition to the enforcement of immigration laws by state and local police, according to an article from the MacIver Institute. Reports have also surfaced that he repeatedly took illegal contributions from the lobbyist for Voces de la Frontera, a group that seeks to "Abolish ICE", and also supports sanctuary cities, where local officials actively seek to block enforcement of immigration laws.

Thus far in Fiscal Year 2022, which runs from October 2021 through September 2022, CBP reports border patrol agents have made in the neighborhood of 1,822,160 arrests at the southern border. In the time since Biden took office in 2021 that number swells to 3.3 million arrests.  

Along with the Biden Administration attempting to end Title 42, the Department of Homeland Security announced earlier this month that it plans to end another effective Trump-era program, namely Remain in Mexico, which allowed border agents to turn migrants away and have them wait in Mexico until their removal hearings. With the policy no longer in effect, tens of thousands more migrants are expected to be free to enter the US.