VivirLatino

We’ve written a number of times over the past two years about the topic of using the immigration debate as tool to pit the Latino community against the African American community. I wish we didn’t have to write about it again, but it keeps coming up:

New research by Carol Swain, professor of law and political science at Vanderbilt University, found that illegal immigration is hurting African Americans. And, according to Professor Swain, the Congressional Black Caucus is not addressing this issue.

In her essay in the newly released volume Debating Immigration, which Professor Swain edited, she said that African Americans are losing more jobs to illegal immigrants than to other racial or ethic groups, yet low income black workers don’t have political input in the debate.

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