Thread: National Data: Time for an Immigration Moratorium!

There are a number of links embedded at the source, and the statistics given are much easier to read in table form as they are presented there.
http://vdare.com/rubenstein/090904_nd.htm

National Data, By Edwin S. Rubenstein

Unemployment Hits a 26-Year High—Time for An Immigration Moratorium!

So gargantuan is America’s post-1965 immigration disaster that there is now an immigration dimension to every public issue—Health Care, infectious disease, mortgage fraud, crime, school overcrowding.

Nowhere is this more evident than in employment—and nowhere is the phenomenon more pressing, given that unemployment has now reached a level (9.7 percent—14.9 million unemployed) not seen since 1983.

Mainstream economists predict that unemployment will peak in a range of 10 to 12 percent only sometime in 2010. Or later, or even higher—depending on how skittish employers are in face of extraordinary uncertainty.

Meanwhile, immigration is continuing at historically high numbers. Estimates of 1.8 million per year translate to one hundred fifty thousand per month, thirty five thousand per week, and five thousand per day.

As usual, the federal government’s statistics on immigration’s impact on employment are so fragmentary that it almost appears someone doesn’t want to know. Specifically, the government does not release monthly data on immigrant vs. native-born American employment.

To fill this information gap, in 2004 we unveiled our proprietary effort to track American worker displacement: the VDARE.com American Worker Displacement Index (VDAWDI). We tracked monthly growth of Hispanic versus non-Hispanic employment, expressing both as an index number of 100 as of the start of the Bush Administration in January 2001. We used Hispanics as a proxy for immigrant employment because such a high fraction of working age Hispanics (54 percent) are immigrants.

VDAWDI rose dramatically from January 2001 to late 2007, when it reached 124.1. Then it stalled and finally began to decline when employment collapsed in late 2008. But it is still some 20 percent above 2001’s levels—that is, immigrant displacement of American workers has not been reversed.

With legal immigration unabated, an increasing share of America’s unemployed are either foreign-born or natives who have been displaced by foreign-born workers.

Once a year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases data on immigrant employment trends. Its 2008 report, released on March 26th of this year, shows a significant rise in immigrant jobless—both in absolute numbers and as a share of the total:

Employment and Unemployment by Nativity, 2007-08

Labor force status and
foreign-born status
2007
2008
Increase, 2007-08
% Increase, 2007-08

Unemployment (1,000s)

Total
7,078
8,924
1,846
26.1%

US born
6,051
7,521
1,470
24.3%

Foreign born
1,027
1,403
376
36.6%

Percent of total
14.5%
15.7%

Unemployment rate (%)

Total
4.6
5.8
1.2
26.1%

US born
4.7
5.8
1.1
23.4%

Foreign born
4.3
5.8
1.5
34.9%

SOURCE: BLS, unpublished tables.

There were 1.403 million unemployed immigrants in 2008, or about 16 percent of all jobless. Take away 16% from the current unemployment rate (9.7%), and we are down to 8.1%. That’s the rate we had in the first quarter of this year.

Unemployed immigrants are, obviously, a direct result of immigration. But a potentially larger problem is the indirect fallout from immigration: native-born Americans who have lost their jobs to immigrants.

American worker displacement is another of the statistical “black holesâ€

I am getting quite tired of the skewed statistics we are being presented with, and the continual erosion of the basis for these statistics to satisfy a political agenda.
Even the much touted polls running on MSM are skewed, as someone has to cover the bills to those conducting the polls.
I used to like reading polls and statistics (I know, get a life) but there is too much evidence that who is counted in the polls and who has been not counted dismisses the self-employed, dismisses most everyone who is not on unemployment but jobless that get unemployment insurance. In other words, much touted statistics ignore a large portion of the unemployment problem, and ignore the need to separate illegal and legal immigrants from American citizens (who end up paying the bills for all the goodies we end up giving these folks).

Skewed statistics... I LOVE this one that is repeated by EVERY Politician & MSM outlet: "The ESTIMATED 12 Million Illegal Immigrants"...
How many years has it been 12 Million? LOL These people are so Ignorant it is funny. Maybe I should Email them this website so they can keep track of things.
http://www.immigrationcounters.com/

ALL Immigration needs to come to a halt, and reversed until Americans are All Employed.

September 06, 2009

The Fulford File, By James Fulford

Message On Labor Day: Working America Needs An Immigration Moratorium

In 1995, when there were a lot fewer immigrants in the United States, and there was a boom rather than a financial crisis, Peter Brimelow in Alien Nation suggested an immigration moratorium to allow America to finish assimilating its recent immigrants. A moratorium proposal also featured in his 1992 NR cover story Time to Rethink Immigration? (NR’s Ramesh Ponnuru subsequently announced the magazine’s abandonment of this not-Beltway-friendly position after Buckley’s purge of immigration patriots).

“Moratoriumâ€