Wax and Richwine: US Should End Low-Skill Immigration
Amy Wax and Jason Richwine in an op/ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer have called for the end of the immigration of low-skilled workers in order to protect U.S. workers. Neither is a stranger to controversy, with Richwine having left the Heritage Foundation soon after news circulated about his Ph.D. dissertation advocating the reduction of the immigration of people with low IQs, including many Latinos. Earlier this year, Wax generated controversy with an op/ed on the need to “re-embrace of bourgeois norms.” Although Richwine has written previously on immigration, I do not recall Wax having written scholarship on the topic
In the op/ed, Wax and Richwine offer support to the calls by President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions for strong immigration enforcement to benefit American workers. I am quite confident that most economists would disagree. For some commentary on the issue, click here.
KJ