From the Weekly Standard comes yet more evidence that immigration just ain't so devastating as the doom-and-gloomers like to pretend. Remember, 1986 was the last immigration reform, which legalized quite a few folks and heralded an increased flow into the country:
According to the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, the state's unemployment rate was 8.9 percent in 1986; at the end of 2005 it was 5.3 percent. Real wages have made substantial gains. In El Paso, for example, real wages increased from 647 million in 1986 to about 960 million in 2005. In the Dallas metro area, real wages rose from 7 billion in 1986 to over 11.8 billion in 2005.
However do they survive?
