The influx of foreign workers includes many foreign graduates. Their arrival is forcing many debt-burdened Americans graduates to start their careers in lower-wage jobs. Those American graduates will be stuck with lower wages for many years unless employers face a shortage of workers in the next few years.
That process has widened the gap in wealth between the wealthiest one percent and the rest of the country.
The surplus of workers, dubbed a “slack labor market,” has largely been ignored by media outlets, which have tried to blame stagnant wages on Wall Street greed, technology, education, the recession and various other causes.
The reasoning in your referenced article is curious.
If the wealth and / or income gap between the top 1% and the rest of the US population is increasing as a direct consequence of immigrants taking jobs from Americans, then that implies that these immigrants are earning enough to be in the top 1%, while there is good reason to suggest that immigrants are not as a rule quite in that income or wealth bracket - not as a general rule.
So what the *** is this quote intended to mean?
If one thing has NOT been ignored in discussions I have seen of the American economy, then that is jobs. Indeed, jobs has been a word frequently heard on the lips of Obama himself. So I see no reason to say that the "surplus of workers" (more commonly expressed as unemployment and underemployment) has been ignored - it hasn't. Indeed, this article appears to recognize that there has been an increase in jobs, albeit claiming those additional jobs are going to immigrants. So it is useful to unclutter these issues. Are there more jobs? Is that because American politicians do not ignore jobs? Or are there not more jobs? Quite a separate debate to the discussion who gets those jobs and why. But please stop confusing issues with one another - that makes rational debate impossible.
Now perhaps the idea is the immigrants alter supply and demand in a way that results in lower wages and wage stagnation. Maybe so. But this suggests that there is a force of nature at work, something outside of human influence, by which somehow the only group getting any benefit out of economic growth since the early Eighties has been the top 10% and most of all the top 1%. Nonsense. They earn more, not because others earn less, but because they take more than their share and they take bigger increases than anyone else. They earn more because they take more, not because immigrants are willing to work for less. This anti immigrant rant could only be correct if the top 1% were not increasing their share of wealth and income, which in fact they are doing, so it is just stupid.