Historially, unemployment figures don't remain static. What happens when the unemployment rate rises to 6%, as it surely will. Who loses their job--the illegal or US citizen? You continue to demagog and name call. Start using some facts.
Importing Poverty: Immigration and Poverty in the United States: A Book of Charts
The current influx of poorly educated immigrants is the result of two factors: first, a legal immigration system that favors kinship ties over skills and education; and second, a permissive attitude toward illegal immigration that has led to lax border enforcement and non-enforcement of the laws that prohibit the employment of illegal immigrants. In recent years, these factors have produced an inflow of some ten and a half million immigrants who lack a high school education. In terms of increased poverty and expanded government expenditure, this importation of poorly educated immigrants has had roughly the same effect as the addition of ten and a half million native-born high school drop-outs.
As a result of this dramatic inflow of low-skill immigrants,
--One-third of all immigrants live in families in which the head of the household lacks a high school education; and First-generation immigrants and their families, who are one-sixth of the U.S. population, comprise one-fourth of all poor persons in the U.S.
Immigration also plays a large role in child poverty:
--Some 38 percent of immigrant children live in families headed by persons who lack a high school education; Minor children of first-generation immigrants comprise 26 percent of poor children in the U.S.; and
--One out of six poor children in the U.S. is the offspring of first-generation immigrant parents who lack a high school diploma.
--Hispanic immigrants (both legal and illegal) comprise half of all first-generation immigrants and their families. Poverty is especially prevalent among this group. Hispanic immigrants have particularly low levels of education; more than half live in families headed by persons who lack a high school diploma. Family formation is also weak among Hispanic immigrants; fully 42 percent of the children of Hispanic immigrants are born out of wedlock. Hispanic immigrants thus make up a disproportionate share of the nation’s poor:
--First-generation Hispanic immigrants and their families now comprise 9 percent of the U.S. population but 17 percent of all poor persons in the U.S.; and Children in Hispanic immigrant families now comprise 11.7 percent of all children in the U.S. but 22 percent of all poor children in the U.S.
--Massive low-skill immigration works to counteract government anti-poverty efforts. While government works to reduce the number of poor persons, low-skill immigration pushes the poverty numbers up. In addition, low-skill immigration siphons off government anti-poverty funding and makes government efforts to shrink poverty less effective.
Low-skill immigrants pay little in taxes and receive high levels of government benefits and services. The National Academy of Sciences has estimated that each immigrant without a high school degree will cost U.S. taxpayers, on average, $89,000 over the course of his or her lifetime.[3] This is a net cost above the value of any taxes the immigrant will pay and does not include the cost of educating the immigrant’s children, which U.S. taxpayers would also heavily subsidize.
Don’t let facts get in the way of being compassionate towards the ‘poor’ illegals just looking for opportunity. The opportunity they seek is to use our public services, to remit cash back to their relatives, to use children to ‘anchor’ themselves in our country, and to flout our laws and legal system when they get caught being here illegally.
The solution to this problem is right before our eyes. First, secure the border.
Second, create a biometric citizen id system.
Third, identify those here illegally and those who employ them
Fourth, deport the 600,000 who have already been ordered deported by our courts and immigration system!
Fifth, AFTER we have secured the borders, deported the worst of the criminal element, identified the most blatant companies which are exploiting illegals, and created a secure national id system, THEN we can make RATIONAL decisions on what to do with those remaining.