A.J. Delgado (2015) of the Miami Herald recently published an editorial lamenting Miami’s unemployment rate, one of the highest in the nation, and placing the blame largely on the shoulders of the illegal immigrants that come to Miami in droves to seek work as un- or semi-skilled laborers, proclaiming that amnesty for undocumented workers and an expansion of the skilled worker visa program will spell disaster for Florida’s unemployed.
With Delgado providing an unemployment rate of 6.7%, in comparison to a national average of 5.6%, it is undeniable that Miami’s unemployed are struggling even more than
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