Does Immigration Harm Working Americans?

The Atlantic ^ | 05 Jan 2015 | David Frum

[Theoria]

Many economists say no—but they may be too glib.

The job news is increasingly good: 321,000 jobs created in November. Yet the national economic mood remains grimly bleak.

Many Americans feel a sharp distinction between what’s said about “the” economy and what they experience in “their” economy. At the top of the income distribution, wages are rising. In the middle and bottom, wages stagnate. Jobs are created, yes—but native-born Americans are not hired for them.

Last month, the Center for Immigration Studies released its latest jobs study. CIS, a research organization that tends to favor tight immigration policies, found that even now, almost seven years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, 1.5 million fewer native-born Americans are working than in November 2007, the peak of the prior economic cycle. Balancing the 1.5 million fewer native-born Americans at work, there are 2 million more immigrants—legal and illegal—working in the United States today than in November 2007. All the net new jobs created since November 2007 have gone to immigrants. Meanwhile, millions of native-born Americans, especially men, have abandoned the job market altogether. The percentage of men aged 25 to 54 who are working or looking for work has dropped to the lowest point in recorded history.

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Labor Force Participation Rate Among Men Aged 25 to 54, 2004-2014

                                                                                     Bureau of Labor Statistics    

[ansel12]

No I don’t know your sex, how would I?

The way you post on this immigration issue, even to saying how you personally have known nice immigrants, sounds like a young lefty female feeling good about one worldism and multi-culturalism, multi-religionism, and the end of our national identity, which is the reason that most of us served in the military in the first place, you are throwing away centuries of sacrifice and erasing our nation.

You then go back to your sweety pie liberal sounding idealism about immigration and defending it, not caring that it is destroying our nation, has destroyed it, and has already taken control of our future out of America’s hands.

Who knows why you want to keep importing these people and following JFK’s, LBJ’s, Ted Kennedy’s, (the democrat party’s) immigration plan after 60 years of seeing what it is doing to us, but you seem to have ‘feelings’ for continuing it.

[Elsie]

Because he speaks broken English.

so do 1/12^th of the folks living in Indianapolis...

[Jane Austen]

Of course it harms Americans.

[BlackAdderess]

What do 1/12 of the residents of Indianapolis have to do with whether or not my mail carrier has a good handle on the English language? Which is a thing you should have a good handle on when you are responsible for distributing people’s bank statements, bills, mortgage statements, drivers license renewals, credit card statements, insurance information...

[Elsie]

never mind...