{"id":154,"date":"2011-06-13T13:25:14","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T17:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=154"},"modified":"2016-02-23T13:50:20","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T18:50:20","slug":"brookings-study-finds-that-70-percent-of-foreign-workers-are-not-high-skilled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2011\/06\/13\/brookings-study-finds-that-70-percent-of-foreign-workers-are-not-high-skilled\/","title":{"rendered":"Brookings Study Finds that 70 Percent of Foreign Workers Are Not High-Skilled"},"content":{"rendered":"
A story in The Washington Post<\/a> today trumpeting the findings of a study<\/a> released by the Brookings Institution illustrates the twisted logic (or an utter disregard for logic) necessary to make the case that the United States immigration system is consistent with the national interest. Brookings is claiming that there are now more high-skilled than low-skilled immigrants in the U.S. because there are 30 percent of immigrants with at least a bachelor’s degree compared to 28 percent of immigrants with less than a high-school diploma. <\/p>\n The 30 percent of bachelor’s holders counts guest workers (non-immigrants) as “temporary immigrants” and counts those foreign-born with only a high school diploma as “middle skilled.” So instead of admitting that their research shows that 70 percent of the foreign-born in the U.S. have a only a high-school education or less, Brookings carefully selected its data and created convenient definitions to mask the fact that our legal immigration policies are admitting people whose skills do not match the needs of our economy. Based on this tortured logic, Brookings comes to the conclusion that the U.S. immigration system is working great and the only thing that would improve it is mass amnesty and a major expansion of annual admissions. <\/p>\n