jimnyc
08-27-2018, 01:21 PM
Been hearing this since the old OCA days when various folks stated that we NEEDED the illegals coming in that they do jobs "that Americans won't do". I said BS from day one, that there were willing workers out there for a fair wage. We still hear this lame argument from some that support illegals, even if they won't outright state it.
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Report: Claims that immigrants are needed to do the jobs that Americans won't doesn't hold up
-Claims that immigrants are needed to do the jobs Americans wont doesn’t hold up, according to a Center for Immigration Studies report
-Jobs thought to be dominated by immigrant workers were heavily worked by native-born Americans
-Six of the 474 occupations were made up of majority illegal and legal immigrants
Claims that immigrants are needed to do the jobs Americans won’t do doesn’t hold up, according to a report released Sunday.
One of the key findings from a Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) report, “There Are No Jobs Americans Won’t Do,” was six out of 474 occupations were made up of majority illegal and legal immigrants. Illegal immigrants, however, did not make up a majority for any one of the occupations defined by the Department of Commerce.
“Because the American economy is so dynamic, with many factors impacting employment and wages, it would be a mistake to believe that every job taken by an immigrant is a job lost by a native,” the authors of the analysis wrote. “It would also be a mistake, however, to assume that dramatically increasing the number of available workers in high-immigrant occupations has no impact on the employment prospects or wages of natives.”
Jobs thought to be dominated by immigrants, however, were heavily worked by native-born Americans, according to the CIS report. Over 50 percent of taxi drivers, 65 percent of construction laborers and 73 percent of janitors were born in the U.S.
“Many of the jobs occupied by undocumented workers in the United States are physically demanding jobs that Americans do not want, such as gutting fish or work on farm fields,” according to a Brookings Institution study in 2017.
“In recent research conducted by the Cornell Farmworker Program, 30 New York dairy farmers told us they turned to undocumented workers because they were unable to find and keep reliable U.S. citizens to do the jobs,” Cornell Farmworker Program Director Mary Jo Dudley wrote on June 25. “That’s in part because farm work can be physically demanding, dirty and socially denigrated work.”
The Brookings Institution is a public policy think tank and the Cornell Farmworker Program focuses on research, extension outreach and education efforts to assess farmworkers’ needs
Occupations comprised of 25 percent or more immigrants were lower-skilled, however, exceptions included software engineers and physicians, according to the CIS report. Natives generally had high unemployment rates in high-immigrant jobs, with 1.8 million Americans unemployed.
Illegal immigrants made a large portion of agricultural jobs, yet agricultural workers were less than 1 percent of the U.S. workforce.
Americans with less education would feel the negative impacts of illegal immigration on employment opportunities because Americans with more education tend to avoid competing with illegal immigrants, the report said.
“Assertions by employers that it is impossible to hire Americans should therefore be treated skeptically,” the study said, adding that 42 million natives were not employed. A large number of Americans, additionally, did “immigrant jobs.”
Rest - https://dailycaller.com/2018/08/27/immigrants-jobs-americans/
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Report: Claims that immigrants are needed to do the jobs that Americans won't doesn't hold up
-Claims that immigrants are needed to do the jobs Americans wont doesn’t hold up, according to a Center for Immigration Studies report
-Jobs thought to be dominated by immigrant workers were heavily worked by native-born Americans
-Six of the 474 occupations were made up of majority illegal and legal immigrants
Claims that immigrants are needed to do the jobs Americans won’t do doesn’t hold up, according to a report released Sunday.
One of the key findings from a Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) report, “There Are No Jobs Americans Won’t Do,” was six out of 474 occupations were made up of majority illegal and legal immigrants. Illegal immigrants, however, did not make up a majority for any one of the occupations defined by the Department of Commerce.
“Because the American economy is so dynamic, with many factors impacting employment and wages, it would be a mistake to believe that every job taken by an immigrant is a job lost by a native,” the authors of the analysis wrote. “It would also be a mistake, however, to assume that dramatically increasing the number of available workers in high-immigrant occupations has no impact on the employment prospects or wages of natives.”
Jobs thought to be dominated by immigrants, however, were heavily worked by native-born Americans, according to the CIS report. Over 50 percent of taxi drivers, 65 percent of construction laborers and 73 percent of janitors were born in the U.S.
“Many of the jobs occupied by undocumented workers in the United States are physically demanding jobs that Americans do not want, such as gutting fish or work on farm fields,” according to a Brookings Institution study in 2017.
“In recent research conducted by the Cornell Farmworker Program, 30 New York dairy farmers told us they turned to undocumented workers because they were unable to find and keep reliable U.S. citizens to do the jobs,” Cornell Farmworker Program Director Mary Jo Dudley wrote on June 25. “That’s in part because farm work can be physically demanding, dirty and socially denigrated work.”
The Brookings Institution is a public policy think tank and the Cornell Farmworker Program focuses on research, extension outreach and education efforts to assess farmworkers’ needs
Occupations comprised of 25 percent or more immigrants were lower-skilled, however, exceptions included software engineers and physicians, according to the CIS report. Natives generally had high unemployment rates in high-immigrant jobs, with 1.8 million Americans unemployed.
Illegal immigrants made a large portion of agricultural jobs, yet agricultural workers were less than 1 percent of the U.S. workforce.
Americans with less education would feel the negative impacts of illegal immigration on employment opportunities because Americans with more education tend to avoid competing with illegal immigrants, the report said.
“Assertions by employers that it is impossible to hire Americans should therefore be treated skeptically,” the study said, adding that 42 million natives were not employed. A large number of Americans, additionally, did “immigrant jobs.”
Rest - https://dailycaller.com/2018/08/27/immigrants-jobs-americans/