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    Illegal Immigration Hurts Younger Workers - New Study

    http://www.kxmb.com/getARticle.asp?ArticleId=46991

    New Study: Illegal Immigration Hurts Younger Workers
    Sep 21 2006 10:00AM
    http://sayanythingblog.com/index.php
    The Center for Immigration Studies emailed me a press release about a new study they've just released. You can view the study here, and below is a summary of the findings:

    Between 2000 and 2005, 4.1 million immigrant workers arrived from abroad, accounting for 86 percent of the net increase in the total number of employed persons (16 and older), the highest share ever recorded in the United States.

    Of the 4.1 million new immigrant workers, between 1.4 and 2.7 million are estimated to be illegal immigrants.

    Between 2000 and 2005, the number of young (16 to 34) native-born men who were employed declined by 1.7 million; at the same time, the number of new male immigrant workers increased by 1.9 million.

    Multivariate statistical analyses show that the probability of teens and young adults (20-24) being employed was negatively affected by the number of new immigrant workers (legal and illegal) in their state.

    The negative impacts tended to be larger for younger workers, for in-school youth compared to out-of-school youth, and for native-born black and Hispanic males compared to their white counterparts.

    It appears that employers are substituting new immigrant workers for young native-born workers. The estimated sizes of these displacement effects were frequently quite large.

    These findings are particularly troubling because a person?s early work experience ?? or lack thereof ?? has a significant impact on their performance in the labor market later in life. It is when young that people learn the skills necessary to successful employment.

    I find the argument for illegal immigration that starts with "Illegals do the jobs Americans won't do" to be hilarious. Illegal immigrants don't do jobs Americans won't do, they work for wages that Americans won't work for. They take jobs away from young entry-level workers (not to mention poor, unskilled workers) because they're willing to work for next to nothing.

    Which is why it is so baffling that the unions would be so ardent in their opposition to a secure border and deportation of our current illegal immigration population. Illegal immigrants depress wages and take jobs away from the young and the poor. But apparently the unions, who are normally impassioned advocates for all measures that will raise wage levels, are letting the prospect of unionizing the millions of illegal immigrants in this country (and the millions more who will come if we do legalize the illegals already here) and collecting dues from them cloud their view on this issue.
    "When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

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    Duplicate article. Posted earlier. Please watch the duplicates.

    http://www.alipac.us/modules.php?name=F ... ic&t=33156


    See previous article http://www.alipac.us/modules.php?name=F ... ic&t=41732

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