We wade into the heated debate over immigrants' impact on the labor market. When the number of workers in a city increases, does that take away jobs from the people who already live and work there? Does a surge of immigration hurt their wages? The debate within the field of economics often centers on Nobel-prize winner David Card's ground-breaking paper, "The Impact of the Mariel Boatlift on the Miami Labor Market." Today on the show: the fight over that paper, and what it tells us about the debate over immigration. More Listening: - When The Boats Arrive - The Men on the Roof This episode was hosted by Amanda Aronczyk and Jeff Guo. It was produced by Willa Rubin, edited by Annie Brown, and engineered by Valentina Rodríguez Sánchez. Fact-checking by Sierra Juarez. Alex Goldmark is Planet Money's executive producer. Help support Planet Money and hear our bonus episodes by subscribing to Planet Money+ in Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org/planetmoney. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
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It is political rally season again.
It's not too hot out here, right?
You know, it's not bad.
Former president Donald Trump has been traveling Michigan, Wisconsin, and recently he made a stop in Nevada.
Did you see?
We put out a notice saying don't come.
So only 20,000 people showed up.
And like pretty much every Trump rally.
This open border, so many bad things.
But this open border situation where you're allowing millions and millions of people to.
Flood our country, immigration comes up pretty quickly.
Virtually 100% of the new jobs under Biden have also gone to illegal aliens.
Did you know that?