Morning News, 2/19/09
By Bryan Griffith, February 19, 2009
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1. Illegals displacing native workers
2. ICE scrutinized over arrest quotas
3. Stimulus jobs destined for illegal aliens
4. Hispanics rising as share of convicts
5. MD co. begins enforcement



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More Than 6 Million Illegals Hold Jobs
By Jim Meyers
Newsmax, February 18, 2009

From 6 million to 7 million illegal immigrants currently hold jobs in the U.S. — jobs that could be taken by the millions of less-educated native Americans who are now unemployed.

A new report from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) discloses that 12.8 million native-born high school dropouts and young American natives with only a high school education are unemployed.

Among all native-born adults with a high school diploma or less, 24.3 million are unemployed.

The unemployment rate among native-born high school dropouts is 17 percent. But the rate among legal and illegal immigrants without a high school diploma is only 10.6 percent.

The CIS, an independent research organization, notes that illegal immigrants are “overwhelmingly employed in lower-skilled and lower-paying jobs,â€