Perry Meltdown. Forty Percent of Texas Jobs Going to Illegal Immigrants
From Business Insider. Plenty of people have already attacked the Texas growth myth, but this report from the Center for Immigration Studies really stings.
The non-partisan group found that newly-arrived immigrants claimed 81% of state job growth from 2007 to 2011. What’s worse, half of those immigrants were illegal — representing 40% of state growth.
Obviously this won’t go over well on the Perry campaign.
Newly-arrived immigrants dominated job growth despite representing only 29% of population growth.
More from the CIS report:
Of jobs created in Texas since 2007, 81 percent were taken by newly arrived immigrant workers (legal and illegal).
In terms of numbers, between the second quarter of 2007, right before the recession began, and the second quarter of 2011, total employment in Texas increased by 279,000. Of this, 225,000 jobs went to immigrants (legal and illegal) who arrived in the United States in 2007 or later.
Of newly arrived immigrants who took a job in Texas, 93 percent were not U.S. citizens. Thus government data show that more than three-fourths of net job growth in Texas were taken by newly arrived non-citizens (legal and illegal).
The large share of job growth that went to immigrants is surprising because the native-born accounted for 69 percent of the growth in Texas’ working-age population (16 to 65). Thus, even though natives made up most of the growth in potential workers, most of the job growth went to immigrants.
The share of working-age natives holding a job in Texas declined significantly, from 71 percent in 2007 to 67 percent in 2011. This decline is very similar to the decline for natives in the United States as a whole and is an indication that the situation for native-born workers in Texas is very similar to the overall situation in the country despite the state’s job growth.
Of newly arrived immigrants who took jobs in Texas since 2007, we estimate that 50 percent (113,000) were illegal immigrants. Thus, about 40 percent of all the job growth in Texas since 2007 went to newly arrived illegal immigrants and 40 percent went to newly arrived legal immigrants.
Immigrants took jobs across the educational distribution. More than one out three (97,000) of newly arrived immigrants who took a job had at least some college.
These numbers raise the question of whether it makes sense to continue the current high level of legal immigration and also whether to continue to tolerate illegal immigration.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/texas-jobs-immigrants-rick-perry-2011-9#ixzz1YpAWCzZf
The population control group, CIS, mixes legal and illegal immigrants. This is the group that John Tanton started, along with several Planned Parenthood chapters.
See posts 22, 27, 29 and more here for the eugenicist, environmentalist background of all the founders and many of the Directors of CIS.
From post 27:
the founder of FAIR, NumbersUSA, and Centers for Immigration Study, John Tanton.
http://www.garretthardinsociety.org/tributes/tr_tanton_2003oct.html
There’s no doubt that Tanton is a eugenicist or that FAIR and NumbersUSA share many of his values. They are a front for zero population growth.
“Many now recognize the urgency with which we need to halt the human-caused degradation of Earth’s natural environment. “ http://www.fairus.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=16911&security=1601&news_iv_ctrl=1009
Look at this list of FAIR Director and Advisory Board member http://www.fairus.org/site/PageNavigator/about/board_of_directors.html : John Tanton (PP board of director, founder NumbersUSA, chair Sierra Club Population Committee), Richard Lamm (former Chair, current Advisory Board member, proponent of euthanasia, eventually the elderly will recognize their duty to die), Paul Ehrlich (wrote “The Population Bomb), Sarah G. Epstein (PP board of directors). Hardin was in this group until his death.
NumbersUSA itself refers to Earth Day, Sierra Club, sustainability, human-caused global warming, and environmentalism as support for its position on zero population growth,
https://www.numbersusa.com/content/hot-topics/more-topics/sustainability.html
https://www.numbersusa.com/content/learn/issues/environment/call-population-stabilization-1970s.html
Roy Beck focuses on the environment and willingness to practice “Family planning” and “planned parenthood” by religious organizations
http://www.population-security.org/beck-3-01.htm
Roy Beck writes position papers published by the Centers for Immigration Studies - another Tanton org. - decrying urban sprawl and calling for population control.
https://www.numbersusa.com/content/files/pdf/SprawlPaper.pdf