As Jim notes, Santorum attributed “flatlined” wages to immigration in his campaign kick-off. As I noted recently, there are two problems with Santorum’s argument: Wages haven’t flatlined over the period Santorum is talking about when measured correctly, and there is not much reason to think that immigration has pulled down median wages. I think there’s a good case for reducing immigration, but Santorum is overstating it.
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Ramesh Ponnuru is the editor of National Review, a columnist for the Washington Post, and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
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