For two centuries, the labor shortage myth has been used to justify immigration policies that disadvantage Black Americans. Today, the median household wealth of descendants of American slavery remains much less than that of recent immigrants and less than 15% that of the descendants of European immigrants and settlers.
America's business elites have used immigration as a tool to avoid hiring Black Americans for two centuries, depressing their employment and wages and contributing to persistent racial wealth gaps.
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