Posted on 09/05/2015 10:37:24 AM PDT by zeestephen
Foreign born (includes illegal immigrants) employment level for August 2015: 24.9 million. Native born (USA born) employment level for August 2015: 124.3 million - - - Directions to Table A-7 (Employment Status and Nativity) - Locate first line ("Select All") - Check mark "Total" box - Scroll down to bottom of page - Click "Retrieve Data" box.
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Why Trump is winning.
Free Traitors don’t care.
none of whom work for the Donnie...in the “hospitality: or construction” side of his businesses....of course
Only 16.7%? Why so little? Let’s swing the Southern border WIDE open now, lay off the border patrol, and increase five-fold the H1B Visa’s!
Meanwhile 100 million Americans unemployed/underemployed and at/near poverty levels. But then again most of them are white, so...
How can 11 million illegals hold 24.9 million jobs? /S
Trump is turning into their worst nightmare.
Also I don’t think this report reflects the underground economy where most of the illegals work.
So in that sense the situation is actually much worse for American workers.
It’s time for these people to go home and make their own countries livable...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjzfGChGlE
I didn’t know there were that many openings at jobs “in the shadows”.
Ponder this on H1bs alone...”There is no official estimate of the size of the total H-1B population; our estimate is 650,000 as of September 30, 2009, 10 times larger than the flow number usually referred to.”
Note that was 6 years ago.This is how messed up things currently are: no one even keeps statistics on how many H-1B workers there are in the US.
The number used by politicians about this program is typically 65,000.
http://cis.org/estimating-h1b-population-2-11
Nicely summed up...
I've posted on the H-1B subject many times.
The “65,000” number is utterly bogus, but is published everywhere.
The minimum estimate for H-1Bs in 2015 is 550,000.
One researcher at CIS (the site you link, and the best site for hard data on this) recently estimated just short of 1 million H-1Bs.
Here's a quick - and current - summary for those who are interested:
(1) 65,000 is the yearly quota for tech workers with B.S. degrees. Add in 20,000 more per year for those with M.S. and PhDs.
(2) Now multiply times six! Why? Because each visa is automatically renewable for six years! So, that's 510,000 right there.
(3) After six years, H-1Bs with active applications for Green Cards may renew 1 year at a time - indefinitely.
(4) H-1Bs employed by universities, government agencies, and non-profit laboratories do not count against the quota. No one has any idea how many there are.
(5) There are at least 100,000 more foreign workers in the USA who are legally using various kinds of student, training, internship, and travel visas to work full time jobs here.
Don’t forget to start adding in H4s (Spouse work permits) for all these H1BS. And a newer program...I think called OPT. From student to H1b. There seems to be 21 different types of temporary work visas. Add all those in. Plus asylees, refugees, overstays. People cant begin to grasp #s or complexity of immigration law.
OPT has no quota, and it has been growing at 30% per year for the last three years.
OPT supporters have been quietly trying to get Obama to use an Executive Order to extend the 29 months to six years - just like H-1B, but no quota!
I know the H-4 has been challenged in Federal Court. Last time I read anything about it - around a month ago - the Judge had made an unfavorable ruling, but the case was still pending.
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