One more data point: those hundred thousand immigrants are going to be looking for jobs. Most will probably not be native speakers, so they will be hunting for low-skill, low paying jobs. The kind of jobs that the existing poor are looking for.
If you are one of those fat-cat "1%er" that people hate so much, and you want to keep wages in certain industries low, importing masses of cheap labor is a good way to do it.
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