According to a study by George Borjas, a Harvard economist, immigration reduced the wages of American high-school dropouts by 9% between 1980-2000.

根据哈佛大学经济专家 George Borjas 的一项研究，外来移民使美国高中辍学生的工资在1980-2000年间减少了9%。

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Mr Borjas admits to his organisation's lack of co-ordination with other drug-fighting outfits and the extreme lack of co-operation it gets from nervous Honduran citizens.

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But Mr Borjas also calculated how a rise in the number of migrants might have encouraged the creation of jobs, which reduced the impact on wages.

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"An outflow of immigrants, or a reduction in the inflow, could actually lessen the recessionary pressures, " writes professor George Borjas, an expert on labor economics at Harvard University, in an e-mail.

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