Does Michelle Malkin oppose competition? It’s hard to discern her stance from the sentences in her post entitled The Impact of Immigration of Wages in Arkansas, wherein she frames a link to a Wall Street Journal article. Malkin comments:
The news side of the Wall Street Journal has conceded that immigration depresses wages among blue-collar workers.
That’s not a bug, that’s a feature. Competition among workers drives manufacturing costs down and should inspire the best of those employees to aspire to something better–instead of annual or union-driven raises to do the same thing over and over. The competition keeps costs down and makes for cheaper manufactured goods and for easier expansion for business owners. Regardless of from whence the workers come.
I cannot espouse an argument against immigration based on its economic impact to lowering prices. Sorry.
