Posted on 07/01/2014 3:09:48 PM PDT by Kaslin
American-born workers have had a net loss in jobs since 2000, while all of the job growth since then has gone to immigrants, according to a remarkable new study by the Center for Immigration Studies. This revelation comes as some Republican politicians continue to flirt with amnesty and the disastrous proposal of so-called immigration reform.
Meanwhile, a new Gallup poll proves that the American public is increasingly fed up with the high levels of immigration flooding our job market and our nation. By nearly a 2-1 margin, Americans now want less immigration rather than more: 41 percent would like to see a decrease in immigration, while only 22 percent want to see immigration increase.
Among the 22 percent who want to expand immigration are Democrats who view illegal immigrants as a way of expanding their party's political base. But that shortsighted political motivation is certainly not good for our country, and it is devastating for the dwindling job opportunities available to Americans.
In 2000, 114.8 million Americans who were born in the United States had jobs here. Nearly a decade and a half later, in 2014, that total had decreased to 114.7 million, and millions of Americans have been unemployed for many years.
Millions of new jobs were created during that same period in the United States, but immigrant workers soaked up all that job growth. There was a net gain of 5.7 million in jobs during those 14 years, from 17.1 million in 2000 to 22.8 million in 2014, but the overall net effect was that 100 percent of the job growth went to immigrants and 0 percent to workers born in the U.S.
Steven A. Camarota is research director for the Center for Immigration Studies and the lead author of this startling report. His investigation proves that there are now 58 million Americans born in our country who do not have jobs and that 34 percent of working-age Americans are without work, a number far higher than in 2000 when the number of out-of-work Americans born here was 26 percent.
Despite the scandal of so few jobs for Americans, the legislation pushed by Democrats for so-called immigration reform would vastly expand job opportunities for immigrants at the expense of American-born workers. The Senate's misguided Gang of Eight bill would sharply increase the numbers of legal and illegal immigrants in our country, far above the 40 million who are already here, plus adding an incentive for many more to illegally enter our nation.
Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama has been a leader against expanding immigration under the guise of the phony "immigration reform," and he persuasively explains how hurtful unrelenting immigration is for our nation and especially for U.S. workers. He observed that the recent findings in this report by the Center for Immigration Studies "are shocking, and represent a dramatic indictment of immigration policy in Washington, D.C."
In the last presidential election, Mitt Romney lost because he failed to attract the support of millions of working-class Americans who have been hit the hardest by the harmful consequences of liberal demands for more and more immigration. Sessions wisely advises Republican leadership to "sever themselves from these demands and present themselves to the American public as the one party focused on everyday working people."
Sessions is obviously right in counseling that "the sensible, conservative, fair thing to do after 40 years of record immigration is to slow down, allow assimilation to occur, allow wages to rise, and to help workers of all backgrounds rise together into the middle class." Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor was defeated in a landslide in his own primary after failing to heed this advice. Will other Republican leaders finally get the message?
Meanwhile, the Democrats' and media demands for "immigration reform" have had another devastating effect on our nation: attracting a projected 100,000 children to cross our Mexican border illegally in this year alone and bringing with them contagious diseases that could "spread like wildfire," according to Dr. Jane Orient. "Legal immigrants have always been required to undergo health screenings," Orient explained, "but these kids coming have no medical screenings and no vaccine records."
The doctor observed that many childhood diseases have been largely and wonderfully eradicated from our country, such as measles and chickenpox, but that leaves Americans without natural immunity against them. If they are brought into this country by unlawful immigration, then they can spread quickly, and young doctors who have never seen some of these diseases may be slow to recognize them.
Noroviruses are highly contagious infections that carry symptoms of diarrhea and vomiting. "All we need is one outbreak of that virus, and we would have an overwhelming public health crisis," Orient warned.
It will become more difficult for our pro-immigration freepers to hide behind their “legal/illegal” fig leaf.
We need comprehensive immigration reform, beginning with a law saying that no person who has ever entered the US illegally or remained in the US illegally shall be eligible for citizenship or permanent residency.
This BS is going to stop the moment the gravy train of 99 weeks of “unemployment”, food stamps, Social Security disability, Section 8 housing, free medical care, Aid for Dependent Children, Head Start, free school breakfast, lunch and dinner programs, subsidies for utilities, healthcare transpiration, the rest of the EBT card scams run out of money.
Obama has been warehousing our American unemployed population and lulling them into a false sense of normalcy with welfare and government handouts to disguise the urgency of our economic situation and to keep Americans from realizing how their jobs and their future are being destroyed .
What do you mean pro immigration as in legal immigration Freepers? I resent that. I am a naturalized citizen who came here legally in 1966. You might have been born here but your ancestors immigrated from somewhere. So don’t give me that bull about immigration Freepers
You said it
Unfortunately true.
In spite of the chaos at our border, LEGAL immigration is still the most destructive political force in America.
Every year, we naturalize 750,000 new citizens.
Many of them do not vote.
But poll after poll after poll shows that 80% of them vote Democrat when they do.
That was pretty confusing, but if you are pro-immigration, then you support the left, the democrat party, and the destruction of America, and America was not founded by immigrants, but by Brits who rebelled against Britain.
I was naturalized in 1977 before my husband was transferred to Germany for his last assignment. He retired in 1979 and we both registered as Republicans. We have never missed an election and have never voted for a rat and never will
That is your response to the hard cold facts in post 10, that you immigrated so you have to now support the left and the destruction of America?
You sound like one of those who see the wrong in gay marriage, UNTIL their daughters comes out as gay, and then they suddenly throw reason and conservatism and God, and patriotism out the window.
That BS about legal and illegal is nonsense, legal immigration is destroying America, in fact, it is already too late to ever recover, but we can slow the destruction.
Re: “You might have been born here but your ancestors immigrated from somewhere.”
So what?
Except for sub-Saharan Africans, the ancestors of EVERY person in the world immigrated from some other place.
That would include YOUR ancestors in the country you left in 1966.
Re: “I am a naturalized citizen who came here legally in 1966.”
When you arrived, less than 4% of Americans were foreign born.
Today, almost 14% are foreign born.
What is the percentage of foreign born in the country you left?
Do you think your home country would allow millions of politically Conservative Americans to become voting citizens?
Re: “I was naturalized in 1977 before my husband was transferred to Germany for his last assignment. He retired in 1979 and we both registered as Republicans. We have never missed an election and have never voted for a rat and never will.”
I believe you.
Why else would you be posting at Free Republic?
But, today, if I understand you, you support 750,000 new citizens each year, even though 80% of them completely reject the Conservative principles you live by.
Sorry, but I don’t understand your thinking on this issue.
I still have two brothers and several cousins in Germany where I was born and raised and have not been back since I left the last time. I have no interest in going back even for a visit. So much has changed since 1979 that I like to keep the memories that I have.
No I don't think they could vote and shouldn't be able to. The same as non citizen should be able to vote in our elections. You know though that is a liberal thing.
If they are legal immigrants why shouldn’t they be supported? Like it or not, this is a nation of immigrants
silliness
When we threw off the yoke of the crown in 1776, many people in this new country called America were in fact not immigrants. Some of their families went back a century or more.
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