"Get out of our country": It's not just for illegals anymore

YOU ARE VISITING THE OLD MALKIN(S)WATCH. THAT'S FANTASTIC. PLEASE VISIT THE NEW MALKIN(S)WATCH WHEN YOU GET A CHANCE.

Not that it ever was, but Malkin takes it to new heights:

The news side of the Wall Street Journal has conceded that immigration depresses wages among blue-collar workers. Here's an excerpt:

Dale Baughman, who has lived in Northwest Arkansas all his life, has had a different experience. Three years ago, the BB-gun manufacturing plant where he worked for 29 years closed and he lost an $18.50-an- hour tool-making job. "It's hard to find a job and the ones you can find don't pay anything," says the 52-year-old, who has a high-school diploma. He looked for machine-maintenance jobs at factories that would match his old pay but found only ones paying $12 to $13 an hour. He partly blames a rise in immigration, which he says is keeping wages low for less-skilled labor.....[sic-more-than-three-dots]

Interesting. Of course, this is only one small part of the WSJ article, which blames a myriad of factors (free version) for the depressed wages. Also, Malkin (and Vdare, who she links to regarding the WSJ article fail to add ellipses, three-dot or otherwise, between some paragraphs, presumably to make it look as though the article writer launched a direct attack on immigration.

Needless to say, he didn't, and the only "evidence" presented in the article regarding immigration is the opinions of locals. Naturally, I'm concerned for people who are un- and underemployed. But if keep-the-hordes-out advocates like Malkin want some sort of proof that if only we ended immigration, good Americans would be able to afford their mortgages again, this article isn't it.

Someone should send it to Paul Gigot.

I'm sure he's shaking in his boots, Michelle.

Duh: Michelle, obviously, does use ellipses, since I held them up for ridicule in the post. It's VDare.com that elided those suckers.