There are an estimated 22 million foreign born in our workforce, 8 million of whom are illegal aliens. Yes, there are plenty of jobs held by both legal immigrants and illegal aliens that could be filled by an American. Give me one job that can't be filled by an American.
his analysis tests the often-made argument that immigrants do only jobs Americans don't want. If the argument is correct, there should be occupations comprised entirely or almost entirely of immigrants (legal and illegal). But Census Bureau data collected from 2009 to 2011, which allows for detailed analysis of all 472 separate occupations, shows that there were only a handful of majority-immigrant occupations. Thus, there really are no jobs that Americans won't do. Further, we estimated the share of occupations that are comprised of illegal immigrants, and found that there are no occupations in which the majority of workers are illegally in the country.
Of the 472 civilian occupations, only six are majority immigrant (legal and illegal). These six occupations account for 1 percent of the total U.S. workforce. Moreover, native-born Americans still comprise 46 percent of workers even in these occupations.
We find that there are no occupations in the United States in which a majority of workers are illegal immigrants. Illegal immigrants work mostly in construction, cleaning, maintenance, food service, garment manufacturing, and agricultural occupations. However, the overwhelming majority of workers even in these areas are native-born or legal immigrants.
When AZ implemented its tough laws requiring businesses to use E-verify, many of the jobs in the fast foods business came open and were filled by Americans. The same thing happened in Alabama. And there are many examples elsewhere.
The fast-food chain announced last week that it would hire 50,000 people around the U.S. – at least 1,000 in metro Atlanta – and job-seekers lined up at McDonald's Atlanta-area restaurants to vie for an opportunity.
At the Candler Road store in Decatur, more than 100 people were lined up to apply for jobs by 7 a.m. and, two hours later, more than 300 already had applied for positions as crew members and managers.
Yes, I am. It would do this in two ways: (1) it would remove a huge disincentive for many Americans to work; and (2) it would reduce the tax burden on American employers.
You fail to indicate how this would create jobs. What happens to the loss of revenue to businesses due to the elimination of food stamps? What happens to doctors and hospitals that no longer receive Medicaid payments? By law, hospitals must still treat patients who come into the ER. There are 80 million people on Medicaid. A significant number of them are in nursing homes and those numbers will increase as our population increases. Do you really believe we can eliminate Medicaid and food stamps? Where is the political will to do that?
What did taxpayers give to the 109,631,000 — the 35.4 percent of the nation — getting welfare benefits at the end of 2012?
82,679,000 of the welfare-takers lived in households where people were on Medicaid, said the Census Bureau. 51,471,000 were in households on food stamps. 22,526,000 were in the Women, Infants and Children program. 20,355,000 were in household on Supplemental Security Income. 13,267,000 lived in public housing or got housing subsidies. 5,442,000 got Temporary Assistance to Needy Families. 4,517,000 received other forms of federal cash assistance.
When those receiving benefits from non-means-tested federal programs — such as Social Security, Medicare, unemployment and veterans benefits — were added to those taking welfare benefits, it turned out that 153,323,000 people were getting federal benefits of some type at the end of 2012.
Businesses that are hiring illegal aliens are privatizing the profits and socializing the costs. Illegal aliens cost over $100 billion a year in just education, healthcare, and incarceration costs. And immigrants, legal and illegal, send over $123,273,000,000 in remittances from United States to other countries in 2012.
$123 trillion here and $123 trillion there and pretty soon we are talking real money!
This item in your response -- which is a classic illustration of Keynesian economics -- is exactly what is behind this push to flood the country with tens of millions of new immigrants.
These people aren't being brought here for their labor. They're being brought here to serve as "customers" for every industry and government agency that employs people in this country. In effect, they're being brought here to replace the 50+ million Americans we've killed off since Roe v. Wade.
There's no reason to lament the destruction of a nation that has done so much to cause its own demise.