Illegal Workers Supplant U.S. Ones, Report Says!

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By JULIA PRESTON
Published: September 22, 2006
New illegal immigrants accounted for 56 percent of the increase in employed workers in the United States in the five years after 2000, and competition from these immigrants contributed to a sharp decline in employment of teenage and young adult Americans, according to a labor market study released yesterday.

The survey found that in the five-year period, foreign-born workers, including both legal and illegal immigrants, made up 86 percent of the net increase in the total number of employed workers, the highest share for immigrants ever recorded in this country.

At the same time, the number of employed native workers ages 16 to 34 fell by more than 1.5 million. The study contends that 90 percent of the job deficit for young Americans would be erased if American teenagers and young adults held the jobs that immigrants now hold.

The study was carried out by Andrew Sum, Paul Harrington and Ishwar Khatiwada from the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston and was published by the Center for Immigration Studies, a group in Washington that advocates reducing immigration.

Last month a study by the Pew Hispanic Center, another Washington research organization, concluded that there was no nationwide pattern of displacement of American workers by immigrants.

Several economists noted that the past five years had been marked by a slow economic recovery that created unusually few jobs for all workers in the United States. They said that several factors contributed to declining employment among young people and that an increase in the number of youths going to college was one.

Employment rates have plummeted for young black men without high school diplomas.

“They face tremendous barriers, but immigrant competition is not the biggest one,” said Jared Bernstein, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington group that focuses on labor issues. “If immigrant competition were to drop significantly, they would still have big problems.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/22/us/22employ.html

Last night I saw this new study about illegal immigration discussed on 2 fox news talk shows. the O'reilly Factor, and the Hannity& Colmbs show.
John Kasick was sitting in for O'reilly, he had an immigration attorner and a reporter about this new study. The attorney was trying to say it was all about nothing, John practically shut her out, it was good to see, then later Sean Hannity and Allen was in Dallas, again this study was debated with an immigration attorney and I believe another reporter. the people in the crowd was practically booing the immigration attorney it was good to see this being discussed in the news media! Did anyone else happen to see these shows last night?
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had_enuf · Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 7:12 pm Post subject:

I saw O'Reilly, nitty. I loved the way Kasick and the guy from CIS made the immigration lawyer look like a fool. Smile

Rockfish · Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 7:28 pm Post subject:

I saw it, had_enuf, you're right, what made me mad was the fact that segment ended so quickly!
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nittygritty · Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 8:02 pm Post subject:

To bad they are not all like Lou and do more then one segment on the immigration problem, at least though it got out there.I really like and respect John, though, he does think we need some kind of a guest worker problem he wants the border secured now. He completely shut down that immigration attorney did my heart good!
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