Thread: CIS Study: All Employment Growth Since 2000 Went to Immigrants

Study: All Employment Growth Since 2000 Went to Immigrants

By NRO Staff
June 26, 2014 7:22 PM
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According to a major new report from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), net employment growth in the United States since 2000 has gone entirely to immigrants, legal and illegal. Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, CIS scholars Steven A. Camarota and Karen Zeigler found that there were 127,000 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.

The rapidity with which immigrants recovered from the Great Recession, as well as the fact that they held a disproportionate share of jobs relative to their share of population growth before the recession, help to explain their findings, the authors report. In addition, native-born Americans and immigrants were affected differently by the recession.

Other significant findings include:

• 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.

• 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.

• 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 high*er-skilled jobs, including management, computers, and health care practitioners.

• 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.

According to the study, 58 million working-age natives are not employed.

Camarota and Zeigler report three conclusions:

• First, the long-term decline in the employment for natives across age and education levels is a clear in*dication 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 consis*tent with research showing that immigration reduces employment for natives.

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

The Center for Immigration Studies is a non-profit research institute. Founded in 1985, the organization is regularly consulted by policymakers, the academic community, and the media on matters of immigration policy.

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Plenty of proof that our message is not being heard in Washington, and after 24 years fighting this, I do not think just a message will er be heard. So, we need suggestions about what to do that will git'er done?

Study: All Employment Growth Since 2000 Went to Immigrants

By NRO Staff
June 26, 2014 7:22 PM
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NUMBER OF U.S. BORN NOT WORKING GREW BY 17 MILLION

Harry Reid: Illegal immigrants play a ‘crucial’ role in the U.S. economy

by Tony Lee 26 Jun 2014
breitbart



Illegal and legal immigrants have accounted for all of the job growth in the United States since 2000.

On the one-year anniversary of the passage of the Senate's "Gang of Eight" comprehensive immigration reform bill, the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) released a report on Friday that revealed that even though native-born Americans accounted for two-thirds of the growth in the total working-age population since 2000, the number of native-born Americans with jobs declined by 127,000.

While there were 114.8 million working-age native-born Americans with jobs in the first quarter of 2000, there were only 114.7 million with jobs in the first quarter of 2014. On the other hand, 17.1 million working-age immigrants (legal and illegal) had jobs in 2000 while 22.8 million did in 2014, which is an increase of 5.7 million.

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), who has relentlessly encouraged his colleagues to put American workers first during the immigration debate, told Breitbart News that the report's findings are "shocking" and "represent a dramatic indictment of immigration policy in Washington D.C" while underscoring the "economic catastrophe that would have ensued" had the Gang of Eight's bill been signed into law and further hollowed out the middle class.

"There is no doubt that a long, sustained period of high immigration, combined with increased automation and the offshoring of jobs, has produced a loose, low-wage labor market," Sessions said. "In spite of this, the President continues to champion legislation that would place further substantial downward pressure on wages."

Champions of comprehensive immigration reform have said amnesty and more legal immigration are needed because the country has a labor shortage and more immigration increases job opportunities for native-born Americans. But the report, consistent with others, found that there is a labor surplus and that massive immigration reduces employment opportunities for native-born Americans.

Steven Camarota, who co-authored the report with Karen Ziegler, told Breitbart News that there is "no indication that things are about to change, so why double immigration as S.744 does?"

As the report points out, even though there are approximately 58 million working-age natives who are not employed, the Gang of Eight bill would, according to the Congressional Budget Office, roughly double the number of new immigrants to about "20 million over the next decade, adding to the 40 million immigrants (legal and illegal) already here." The CIS report found that there were nearly 17 million new immigrants who came to the country during the last 14 years, and that coincided with "a long-term deterioration in the employment rate for natives of every education level, race, and age."

Further, occupations that saw immigrant employment growth from 2003 to 2014 included lower-skilled jobs like "building cleaning and maintenance," middle-skilled jobs like "health care support, office and administrative support, sales, and construction" and even higher-skilled jobs like "management, computers, and healthcare practitioner."

The report also found that the number of working-age native-born Americans who are not in the labor force "increased from 35.7 million in 2000 to 42.1 million in 2007 to 49.2 million in 2014," which means that "13.5 million (79 percent) of the 17 million increase in the number of working-age natives not working from 2000 to 2014 is due to an increase in the number not in the labor force rather than an increase in unemployment."

And while this rate has gotten worse for working-age native-born Americans since 2010 when the so-called recovery began, which "means that the decline in the unemployment rate in recent years is being driven to a significant extent by an increase in the number of working-age natives leaving the labor market and not by an increase in the number getting a job," the story has been different for working-age immigrants.

According to the report, the labor force participation rate for illegal and legal immigrants generally improved from 2000 to 2007, and it did not decline as it did for native-born Americans after 2007. Those who have a job or have looked for one in the previous four weeks are considered as being in the labor force.

Contrary to the notion that immigrants, especially illegal immigrants, take jobs that Americans will not do, CIS determined that in "all 472 civilian detailed occupations as defined by the Department of Commerce," there were only six "majority immigrant (legal and illegal)" occupations. And those occupations only accounted for 1 percent of the total U.S. workforce, according to a previous report.

For instance, the study found that 51 percent of maids and housekeepers are U.S.-born, as are 63 percent of butchers and meat processors, 64 percent of grounds maintenance workers, 66 percent of construction laborers and 73 percent of janitors.

Widespread immigration over the last fourteen years has hurt native-born minorities the most, especially those looking for low-skilled work and are young. The report found that the "employment rate for working-age, native-born blacks declined 9.2 percentage points, compared to 6.1 percentage points for whites and 7.7 percentage points for native-born Hispanics," over the last 14 years. It concluded that the "very large decline in work among those under age 30 may have significant long-term negative consequences for those individuals as they age" and the "failure of young people to gain work experience earlier in their adult lives may also have negative implications for the larger American society."

U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner Peter Kirsanow has urged the Congressional Black Caucus to vote against amnesty because it would hurt black workers the most. Camarota noted that "Hispanic and African American leaders have been at the forefront of arguing not just for amnesty but supporting proposals like" the Senate's amnesty bill that "dramatically increases the number of foreign workers allowed into the country at a time when native-born blacks and Hispanics" have seen increases in their respective unemployment rates.

Sessions, the Alabama Senator, said that President Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats, despite the data, "remain focused on the demands of activist CEOs who want new labor at the lowest price."

He said the immigration and amnesty debate gives Republicans a chance to be the party that represents all American workers and urged the GOP to "sever themselves from these demands and present themselves to the American public as the one party focused on everyday working people."

"The sensible, conservative, fair thing to do after 40 years of record immigration is to slow down a bit, allow assimilation to occur, allow wages to rise, and to help workers of all backgrounds rise together into the middle class," Sessions said.

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4 myths about immigration reform destroyed by new labor study

Written by Michele Hickford, Editor-in-Chief on June 27, 2014


If there’s any improvement in the job market right now, it’s going to immigrants, legal and illegal. You’re a native-born American? Tough luck.

According to an analysis by the Center for Immigration Studies, using the “household survey” collected by the Census Bureau for the Bureau of Labor known as the Current Population Survey (CPS), all net employment growth in the United States since 2000 has gone to immigrants, legal and illegal.

Since the first quarter of 2000, there have been 5.7 million more workers with new jobs who were immigrants, legal and illegal.

Further, because the native-born population grew significantly, but the number working actually fell, there were 17 million more working-age native-born Americans not working in the first quarter of 2014 than in 2000.

The report completely destroys four myths about how wonderful increasing the immigrant population will be, which should put a nail in the coffin for the Schumer-Rubio bill (S.744) (oops, sorry Marco) and similar House measures:

1. There is a general labor shortage. False. There has been a long-term decline in employment for native-born Americans across age and education levels.
2. Immigration increases employment for native-born Americans. No it doesn’t. See above.
3. Immigration increases job opportunities for natives. Hardly. Over 17 million immigrants arrived in the last 14 years, but employment for native-born Americans has deteriorated significantly.
4. Immigrants do the jobs Americans won’t. The report found only six occupations that were majority immigrant (legal and illegal) but they account for only 1 percent of the total U.S. workforce. “Many jobs often thought to be overwhelmingly immigrant are in fact majority native-born. For example, 51 percent of maids and housekeepers are U.S.-born, as are 63 percent of butchers and meat processors. It is also the case that 64 percent of grounds maintenance workers are U.S.-born, as are 66 percent of construction laborers and 73 percent of janitors.”

So why is the Chamber of Commerce – working alongside establishment Republicans – so eager to pass some sort of immigration reform?

Because generally it’s cheaper for business. The report posits:

The Summer Work Travel Program (part of the J-1 visa program) allows employers to hire temporary workers without having to make the Social Security and Medicare payments that employers would be required to make on behalf of native-born workers.

Another example of the way the immigration system makes foreign workers more attractive to employers is that those who enter under the H1-B visa program cannot change companies easily, making them more captive to their employers. Immigrants may also be more willing to work off the books, for lower pay, or endure worse working conditions than natives, causing employers to prefer them as workers.

Immigrants may also be more mobile. By coming to this country, immigrants almost always see substantial improvement in their standard of living, no matter where in the United States they settle. This may make them more willing to move wherever there is job growth in the United States. Natives, on the other hand, may need significant wage incentives to move, which, because of the availability of immigrant labor, businesses are unwilling to offer. All of these factors, and perhaps others, likely explain why so much of the limited employment growth in the last 14 years has gone to foreign-born workers.

We don’t need to worry about shipping jobs overseas if we just ship all the overseas workers HERE. And that’s exactly what appears to be happening.

Hate to be xenophobic here, but exactly when will our American government start looking out for its own American citizens?

Read the full report here.


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Thank you CIS, for this very important study which proves what most of us have known for years, what most 4th graders could have figured out with 3rd grade math, yet escapes the modest thinking ability of members of our Congress and those employed by our government. The formula for this disaster is quite simple:

People In (illegal and excess legal immigration) + Jobs Out (free trade treason) = Bankrupt Nation.

Wake Up Americans! It's time to act and vote only for individuals who understand the problems of excess immigration and who care enough about US citizens to stop it.