Thread: Business owner says illegal immigration costing local jobs

Tony Asion, executive director of El Pueblo Inc., a non-profit advocacy group dedicated to strengthening the Latino community and promoting cross-cultural understanding, says for every job a Latino person occupies, he creates two others.

If one looks at the growth in undocumented workers in North Carolina and compares it to an unemployment rate that has stayed the same or declined, "are they really taking away jobs?" Asion asks.

Ah, ok.... based on what exactly?

How do you 'prove' that hiring one person has a direct effect in generating two other jobs?

On the second statement - it is probably more accurate to say that the larger representation of IAs in certain sectors of the local workforce is displacing [local native workers] to some degree, but more likely, is reducing the desirability of native US workers to those same jobs. So, it is in part 'displacement' but also wage depression which makes the US workers shun those jobs.
(why would a legal US worker then entertain a field where the wage rates are dropping, and the probability you'll be competing with some not in your social/cultural niche - and possibly be - 'replaced' increases???)
Either way, it shouldn't matter. The IAs representation in the workforce is unlawful and destructive to local US worker's jobs and legal business' well being.

Finally, remember also that the key to the unemployment 'rate' (it's not based on an absolute number, but a % of those in the workforce) is that it basically does not accurately count those functionally unemployed - only those officially 'seeking' work.

Or, in other words, if you 'officially' add greater number of workers into the workforce (eg. the counting of IA workers) and then simultaneously neglect to count the true numbers of US citizen/legal resident workers not officially seeking work), you have effectively guaranteed that the official unemployment 'rate' is about equal or possibly even declining. But does it say anything about WHO are the people becoming employed vs. those becoming unemployed?

Further, it does not address well those workers that were displaced from long-standing jobs and now work in another field often at a lesser pay rate.

Good to see another hero stepping up to the plate with us. We need a man or woman like him in every town in America!

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Proud of you Ron Wetzler and sincere good luck!

Hope something can be done in his state before it's the norm everywhere in construction like in Mexifornia.