Thread: CIS: Immigrants, Legal and Illegal, Working in 81% of Texasâ

CIS: Immigrants, Legal and Illegal, Working in 81% of Texas’ New Jobs

By Jim Geraghty
Mark Kirkorian’s Center for Immigration Studies unveils a new report that is almost tailor-made for a debate question tonight:

A new report by the Center for Immigration Studies examines job growth in Texas. Gov. Rick Perry has pointed to increased employment in Texas during the current economic downturn as one of his main accomplishments. Analysis of the Current Population Survey (CPS) collected by the Census Bureau shows immigrants (legal and illegal) have been the primary beneficiaries of this growth since 2007, and not native-born workers. This is true even though the native-born accounted for the vast majority of growth in the working-age population (age 16 to 65) in Texas. The report is online here.


The report’s biggest finding is that among the jobs created in Texas since 2007, 81 percent were taken by newly arrived foreign workers (legal and illegal). Because that’s a pretty important distinction in the minds of most Americans – CIS and Mark envision an America with greatly reduced legal immigration, the more eye-opening numbers are from this figure: “Of newly arrived immigrants who took jobs in Texas since 2007, we estimated that 50 percent (113,000) were illegal immigrants.

Thus about 40 percent of all the job growth in Texas since 2007 went to newly arrived illegal immigrants and 40 percent went to newly arrived legal immigrants.â€

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Oh geez, this Perry guy looks like just one more loser.

Wish we could get this brought up on the debate tonight....I pray we don't end up with another illegal lover as prsident.

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Gee-ziz! This is getting depressing. Why can't we get a viable presidential candidate who's strong on illegal immigration? Its friggin' unbelievable. 80% of the American people agree with us. And yet these politicians treat us like we're the lunatic fringe.

Now it looks like yet another election where we can choose between two losers or vote for somebody who gets 2% of the vote. What are we doing wrong?

I'm still hoping Michele Bachmann catches fire. But it don't look good at this point.

Originally Posted by kysteelgirl

Wish we could get this brought up on the debate tonight....I pray we don't end up with another illegal lover as prsident.

Looking at the questions on youtube Perry is in for a "Hot time in thee Ol' town tonight!"

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