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Russell Pearce: “Wages are suppressed. Jobs are taken away from Americans.”

On the recordJuly 12, 2007
Wages are suppressed. Jobs are taken away from Americans.
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Russell Pearce

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Pearce argues that illegal immigration negatively impacts American wages and job availability.

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