IMMIGRANTS-both legal and illegal — have accounted for all of the job gains in the U.S. labor market since 2000, according to a report that highlights the stiff competition for jobs in a tight economy as Congress debates adding more workers to the mix.
The Center for Immigration Studies report, which is being released Wednesday, says 22.4 million immigrants of working age held jobs at the beginning of this year, up 5.3 million over the total in 2000. But native-born workers with jobs dropped 1.3 million over that same period, from 114.8 million to 113.5 million.
Meanwhile, the number of Americans who aren’t in the labor force at all has jumped by almost 13 million to reach 48.6 million — a finding the report’s authors say signals profound changes in the American job market and challenges conventional wisdom that immigration is good for the economy.
“The last 13 years, or even the last five years, make clear that large-scale immigration can go hand-in-hand with weak job growth and declining rates of work among the native-born,” the authors, Steven A. Camarota and Karen Zeigler, say in their report. “Given the employment situation in the country, the dramatic increases in legal immigration contemplated by the Gang of Eight immigration bill seem out of touch with the realities of the U.S. labor market.”
Whether immigrants compete for jobs is a heated topic — though the Senate all but ignored it during the chamber’s debate on its bill to legalize most illegal immigrants and create opportunities for new immigrants and temporary workers to enter the U.S.
The outlines of those programs are coming into view. The Congressional Budget Office calculated that boosts in immigration and guest-worker programs would add about 12 million new people to the U.S. in 2023, in addition to millions of illegal immigrants who would gain legal status and work permits.Read the rest of the story HERE.
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"IMMIGRANTS-both legal and illegal — have accounted for all of the job gains in the U.S. labor market since 2000,"
Make sure you read the article, there's more.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: NO AMNESTY. PERIOD. END OF STORY.
Polls show that 80% of Americans agree with me on this basic principle.
It's a big time winning issue for Republicans IF THEY MAKE IT AN ISSUE.
Not doing so was one of Romney's worst mistakes during the 2012 campaign, as well as allowing Obama to demagogue the issue in the debates with total impunity.
All Romney needed to do was repeat Senator Ted Cruz's mantra about amnesty: "amnesty is not consistent with the rule of law, and is profoundly unfair to the millions of foreigners waiting in line to immigrate legally to this country."
Even the lowest of the low information voters and the dumbest of the dumb can understand that argument.
Don't be fooled by the libs' favorite red herring about the impracticality of "rounding up 11 million illegal immigrants."
There's no need to "round 'em all up" when the vast majority will VOLUNTARILY RETURN (using the term "self-deport" was another Romney blunder) to their native countries if we simply deny them access to most government benefit programs and strictly enforce E-Verify.
These immigration policies work in many other countries, so they would work here too.
This ain't rocket science. It's just plain old common sense.
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