It is also almost 50 years of bad immigration policies that have no correlation to our job needs. We have to create 150,000 jobs a month just to keep up with immigration. The decade ending in 2010 was the largest in our history in terms of immigration--13.9 million-yet we had a net loss of 400,000 jobs during that same period.
The overall size of the working-age native-born population increased by 16.4 million from 2000 to 2013, yet the number of natives actually holding a job was 1.3 million lower in 2013 than 2000.
The total number of working-age immigrants (legal and illegal) increased 8.8 million and the number working rose 5.3 million between 2000 and 2013.
