Last Friday, the so-called "comprehensive immigration reform" effort received a boost when U.S. Chamber of Commerce head Tom Donohue and AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka reportedly came to an agreement regarding a guest-worker program. The deal indicates that one of the bill's major stumbling blocks--the worry that a flood of unskilled, low-wage workers would crowd poorer Americans out of the job market--has apparently been overcome. Politically speaking, it has. For low-skill, low-wage Americans, however, it is an economic disaster-in-the-making. And though Democrats are once again casting themselves as the champions of beleaguered minority groups for pursuing this legislation, it is American blacks and Hispanics--the communities that suffer from some of the nation's highest unemployment rates--who will pay the price for the Left's amnesty folly.
