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08-05-2015, 06:17 PM #1
Americans Most Likely to Lose Jobs to Illegal Aliens, Least Likely to Back Amnesty
Also apparently water is wet
August 5, 2015
Daniel Greenfield
I'll give the Washington Post credit, this is the closest you can come to an admission from the liberal media that opponents of illegal immigration are not crazy racists. Of course it's an analysis cloaked in a metric ton of condescension.
Today, workers at the top of the education and income scales face some increasingly well-documented competition from well-educated immigrant workers and workers abroad. But it's Americans at the bottom who tend to face job competition most intensely.
Here's why: The majority of immigrant workers in the United States today arrived with limited education and can perform the same tasks as American workers who do not have college degrees or specialized training. And even some immigrants with training in medicine, the sciences, engineering and other fields can not readily practice their profession in the United States without significant time and money to invest in education, training and testing in the United States. So immigrant workers are clustered in manual labor jobs, service industry work and some factory and retail positions. These are, of course, jobs largely held by American-born people of color and whites with limited education.
In regions such as the Midwest and South, where globalization and American trade deals have arguably ravaged industries that once provided family-sustaining wages for some of these same sets of workers, the competition for even these often low-wage jobs is intense. Adding to the situation, when the nation's most recent immigration surge -- much of it illegal -- began in the 1990s (and ended around 2007, according to Pew Research Center data), many immigrant workers found jobs in the Midwest and South. These are areas of the country that had not seen large influxes of immigration for more than 100 years. Perhaps an ongoing, if smaller, trickle of immigrants to the Northeast has something to do with why attitudes about immigration seem far different there than in other parts of the country.
In other words, illegal alien opposition is highest among people losing jobs to illegals, while amnesty boosters tend to be the people who employ illegals.
But of course this is followed by the usual nonsense liberal talking points.
None of that is to say that this read on immigration and immigrant labor is totally accurate, logical or properly channeled. Labor unions, whose members tend to vote for Democrats, now champion immigration reforms that would extend some some sort of legal status to the nation's estimated 11.3 million undocumented immigrants.
Their thinking: This will relieve some of the downward pressure on wages and level the playing field between immigrant and native-born workers. Big business interests and many economists insist that immigrant workers largely fill roles that American workers don't want or are no longer practical and, in this sense, help to fuel opportunity and even some pressure for American workers to gain more skills, education and training.
Did an illegal alien take your job? Think of it as an opportunity to get more skills. Or everyone can join a union.
Of course legalizing illegal aliens just means a new group of illegal aliens will replace them. We already did this with illegal alien amnesty before. And the various minimum wage pushes just creates more demand for illegal aliens.
Labor unions have become puppets of the left and don't care about their members so they're backing the same disastrous plans.
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08-06-2015, 03:11 PM #2
Message to the Washington Post: better late than never.
Re the unions backing plans for more immigration, the first rule of political analysis is, Follow the money. This rule works when trying to understand with the Roman Catholic Church is so eager to see more immigrants, legal or illegal. And it works when trying to understand why labor unions don't care about their members. The union officers probably make more money when they have more members.
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