Americans have been told for decades we’re in desperate need of an underclass to handle the work we don’t want to do ourselves.
We were convinced the development of an American caste system, with the “illegal untouchables” assigned the least-attractive duties, is what a prosperous nation like ours deserves.
This narrative’s purveyors swore to us the depth of illegal immigration would remain shallow enough that these people wouldn’t be a competitive workforce for jobs American citizens want to earn a living from.
This deception has created what I call “The Great Illegal-Immigrant Lie.”
Americans are waking up to the prevalence of illegal immigrants working side by side with them as they consistently lose out to a cheaper alternative to themselves.
Harjinder Singh, an illegal immigrant, caused a fatal vehicle crash Aug. 12, killing three people on the Florida Turnpike as he attempted to make a U-turn in an “Official Use Only” turnaround while driving a commercial truck.
Singh’s attempt to turn caused the truck to suddenly block the entire northbound lane, resulting in the loss of life of Herby Dufresne (30, Florida City), Rodrigue Dor (54, Miami) and Faniloa Joseph (37, Pompano Beach).
Further investigations revealed Singh failed English and road-sign tests, raising questions about his licensing eligibility.
Commercial trucking is a quintessential American blue-collar job that provides economic opportunities for people all over the country.
Even Mayor Adams sees trucking as an opening for formerly incarcerated people to find economic stability and minimize recidivism through training programs. He announced an expanded one Wednesday.
So why are illegal immigrants driving trucks when there are plenty of Americans who willingly work in the profession?
Undocumented immigrants account for up to one-third of total US immigrants and an estimated 7 million workers in the American workforce. Immigrants make up approximately 19% of US truck drivers, more than 275,000 truckers. --->READ MORE HERE
If “immigrants do jobs that Americans won't do”, there should be occupations in which the workers are overwhelmingly foreign-born. However, among hundreds of occupations identified by the Census Bureau, natives outnumber immigrants in all but a handful, and in none of them do illegal immigrants constitute a majority. The willingness of natives to work a broad range of jobs is even more apparent in low-immigration localities. “There are jobs Americans won’t do” is clearly not a strong argument for immigration.
Overall findings:
- Of the 525 civilian occupations identified in Census Bureau data, only five are majority immigrant (either legal or illegal) — with just one, “manicurists and pedicurists”, exceeding 60 percent.
- The five majority-immigrant occupations account for only 0.6 percent of the civilian U.S. workforce. Moreover, native-born Americans still comprise 40 percent of workers in these occupations.
- Many occupations often thought to be overwhelmingly foreign-born are in fact majority native-born:
- Maids and housekeepers: 51 percent native
- Construction laborers: 61 percent native
- Home health aides: 61 percent native
Landscaping workers: 66 percent native - Janitors: 71 percent native
- About half of agricultural workers are immigrants, but all agricultural workers — natives and immigrants together — constitute less than 1 percent of the U.S. workforce.
- There are 65 occupations in which 25 percent or more of the workers are immigrants. However, these occupations are still held by about one in every nine native-born workers — 16 million natives in total.
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