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    One of every three Utah farmworkers is undocumented immigrant

    Study: One of every three Utah farmworkers is undocumented immigrant

    By LEE DAVIDSON | The Salt Lake Tribune
    First Published 1 hour ago • Updated 12 minutes ago


    (A pair of undocumented workers hang drywall in a new home development going up in Willard. In the country for ten years, Martin (last name withheld), right, from Chihuahua who has two children, one born in the states supports his family regularly working construction and is concerned about the latest immigration issues developing. Photo by Francisco Kjolseth/ The Salt Lake Tribune) 4/05/2006


    Economy » Pew study also says one of every six construction workers in the state is in U.S. illegally.

    A new study says that nearly one of every three farmworkers in Utah is an undocumented immigrant. So is one of every six construction workers.

    The Pew Research Center released a study Thursday that uses U.S. Census and other government data to examine labor trends among undocumented workers nationally. It included a variety of state-by-state information.

    It estimates that 31 percent of the farmworkers Utah in 2012 were undocumented immigrants, as were 17 percent of all construction workers.


    Randy Parker, CEO of the Utah Farm Bureau Federation, says the numbers are surprising at first, but may be close to accurate the more he considers them.


    Many small farms do not have the ability to use the federal E-verify system to check immigration status of applicants, he said. Many farmworkers seeking a job present some form of identification making them appear legal, and farmers worry that privacy laws may prohibit them from challenging them too much.

    In addition, Parker said, the harvest creates such a high demand for labor everywhere at the same time that farmers hire migrant crews, which in turn may have undocumented workers.


    Robert McMullin, a partner in McMullin Orchards in Payson, says his farm uses immigrant workers, but they are here legally through the H-2A temporary-worker visa program.


    Still, he said, without immigrants, most Utah farms could not operate. "It is very difficult to get help" to do the hard, lower-paying farm work that many residents refuse — especially when unemployment rates are low and other work is available.


    McMullin said his orchard was forced to leave many sweet cherries on trees in 2013 because it couldn't find enough people to harvest the fruit in time, and some of it simply grew too old.


    "It happened again last year, and will happen again this year," he lamented.


    "We're trying to get more H-2A workers," he said. "It's very difficult. It's expensive. It is a lot of bureaucracy and paperwork. We're learning better how to do it."


    Parker said farm and ranch work is so hard that he knows one sheep rancher who advertises annually for herders, "and he has never had one U.S. resident apply — not one."


    Dale Cox, president of the Utah AFL-CIO labor union, said he believes the estimates for construction workers are close to accurate. He said that causes concern because many such workers often are exploited by unscrupulous employers.


    "They pay them a great deal less than market value," Cox said.

    "And they have them over a barrel because they are undocumented" and can't complain for fear of deportation.


    They "are not being paid overtime; some of them are not getting workers' compensation" when injured, Cox said. "It's kind of like indentured servitude."


    He adds such practices make it tough for good "contractors that are working hard and trying to play by the rules. It hurts our tax base. It hurts everything."


    The Pew study estimated that in 2012, undocumented immigrants accounted for 3.6 percent of Utah's population and 5.1 percent of its workforce.


    It estimates about 100,000 unauthorized immigrants lived in Utah that year, and 70,000 of them were in the labor force.

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    Time to replace these 100,000 people and 70,000 illegal workers with some American Workers, Utah! Come on, you're a beautiful state, and Americans would love to move there and farm and build, like Americans have always done. But they won't come if they don't know about the jobs. So tell US, you've got jobs that need doing. Americans will flood your phone lines offering their services.
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    Anyone can find job ads for any state by typing JOBS IN (STATE) in the Google search box and clicking on Search.

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    At the opposite extreme, the census data find that nearly 25 million households (21%) have no regular internet access at all, either at home or elsewhere.
    http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank...ly-across-u-s/

    It will take more than hiring a firm to post a bunch of ads for jobs on the internet to reach most unemployed and underemployed Americans. It will take recruiting efforts by the businesses to do that, the way employers used to hire people in the United States.
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    U.S. public libraries provide critical access to Internet services

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    Well, the good members of the Church of Latter Say Saints - or at least the monied class of Mormons - don't seem to have the slightest problem with hiring foreigners.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JohnDoe2 View Post
    U.S. public libraries provide critical access to Internet services

    www.ala.org/.../connectivitybrief_2009_1...
    American Library Association

    Internet & American Life Project suggests this need will only continue to grow since ...Most libraries (89.6%) subscribe and provide free access to databases.



    Public Library Use | Professional Tools

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    of free computer and Internet access in their community ... of libraries have developed
    To repeat:

    At the opposite extreme, the census data find that nearly 25 million households (21%) have no regular internet access at all, either at home or elsewhere.
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    Quote Originally Posted by vistalad View Post
    Well, the good members of the Church of Latter Say Saints - or at least the monied class of Mormons - don't seem to have the slightest problem with hiring foreigners.
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    Yeah, it's funny how these businesses hire these internet head heaters to post their phony job ads for jobs the anonymous businesses have already filled with illegal aliens and immigrants. Employers who won't run their own ads, place their company name, phone number and location in the ad are just playing the EEO 30 day notice requirement of a job they've already filled. That's how all net new jobs since 2000 have gone to illegal aliens and immigrants.

    http://cis.org/all-employment-growth...-to-immigrants


    All Employment Growth Since 2000 Went to Immigrants

    Number of U.S.-born not working grew by 17 million

    By Karen Zeigler, Steven A. Camarota June 2014

    Download a PDF of this Backgrounder

    Steven A. Camarota is the Director of Research and Karen Zeigler is a demographer at the Center for Immigration Studies.


    Government data show that since 2000 all of the net gain in the number of working-age (16 to 65) people holding a job has gone to immigrants (legal and illegal). This is remarkable given that native-born Americans accounted for two-thirds of the growth in the total working-age population. Though there has been some recovery from the Great Recession, there were still fewer working-age natives holding a job in the first quarter of 2014 than in 2000, while the number of immigrants with a job was 5.7 million above the 2000 level.

    All of the net increase in employment went to immigrants in the last 14 years partly because, even before the Great Recession, immigrants were gaining a disproportionate share of jobs relative to their share of population growth. In addition, natives' losses were somewhat greater during the recession and immigrants have recovered more quickly from it. With 58 million working-age natives not working, the Schumer-Rubio bill (S.744) and similar House measures that would substantially increase the number of foreign workers allowed in the country seem out of touch with the realities of the U.S. labor market.

    Three conclusions can be drawn from this analysis:


    First, the long-term decline in the employment for natives across age and education levels is a clear indication that there is no general labor shortage, which is a primary justification for the large increases in immigration (skilled and unskilled) in the Schumer-Rubio bill and similar House proposals.

    Second, the decline in work among the native-born over the last 14 years of high immigration is consistent with research showing that immigration reduces employment for natives.

    Third, the trends since 2000 challenge the argument that immigration on balance increases job opportunities for natives. Over 17 million immigrants arrived in the country in the last 14 years, yet native employment has deteriorated significantly.


    Among the findings:



    • The total number of working-age (16 to 65) immigrants (legal and illegal) holding a job increased 5.7 million from the first quarter of 2000 to the first quarter of 2014, while declining 127,000 for natives.
    • In the first quarter of 2000, there were 114.8 million working-age natives holding a job; in the first quarter of 2014 it was 114.7 million.
    • Because the native-born population grew significantly, but the number working actually fell, there were 17 million more working-age natives not working in the first quarter of 2014 than in 2000.
    • Immigrants have made gains across the labor market, including lower-skilled jobs such as maintenance, construction, and food service; middle-skilled jobs like office support and health care support; and higher-skilled jobs, including management, computers, and health care practitioners.
    • The long-term decline in the share of working-age natives holding a job began before the 2007 recession, falling from 74 percent in 2000 to 71 percent in 2007. It is now an abysmal 66 percent, improving only slightly since the bottom of the recession.
    • The share of natives working or looking for work, referred to as labor force participation, shows the same decline as the employment rate. In fact, labor force participation has continued to decline for working-age natives even after the jobs recovery began in 2010.
    • Immigration has fallen in recent years. But despite the economy, between 2008 and the start of 2014 6.5 million new immigrants (legal and illegal) settled in the country and three million got jobs. Over the same time, the number of working-age natives holding a job declined 3.4 million.
    • In contrast to natives, the employment rate of working-age immigrants increased from 2000 to 2007 and has recovered more quickly from the Great Recession than natives, though it has not fully recovered.
    • Since the jobs recovery began in 2010, 43 percent of employment growth has gone to immigrants.
    • If the employment rate of working-age natives in the first quarter of this year were what it was in 2007, 7.9 million more natives would have a job. If the share working were what it was in the first quarter of 2000, 12.5 million more natives would have a job today.
    • There were a total of 69 million working-age immigrants and natives not working in the first quarter of 2014. There were an additional 7.3 million forced to work part-time despite wanting full-time work.
    • The supply of potential workers is enormous: 8.7 million native college graduates are not working, as are 17 million with some college, and 25.3 million with no more than a high school education.


    Cont. in link above.
    _____________________________________

    What's happened to our country and people is so horrible, it's beyond belief, but true it is, and it happened during the reign of one of the best educated most self-sustaining generations in the history of our nation. So the question is, how did it happen? Why and how did we let it? Some of us knew because it was our trade and business to know, a situation we were educated and trained to prevent. But even we didn't know the extent or depth of it. Why didn't we? We weren't in the locations where it started, so we were insulated from it. Only when it traversed the entire breadth of our nation, and entered small and medium sized cities, could we actually see it on the ground, and of course in those days, no one was reporting on it. When you first discover it on the ground without a warning, it's a little late to get in the game to stop it, but in the game we are, and I believe we will prevail to stop this madness, something we have to believe in, because it's something we have to do, and there's no other choice. This is it. It ends now, because it must.
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