From Steven A. Camarota of CIS:
The recovery from the recession of 2001 is often described as "jobless." But this is not entirely correct. My analysis of Census Bureau data shows that between March 2000 and 2004, the number of adults working in United States actually increased.
What's interesting, however, is that all the net growth in jobs went to immigrant workers. In fact, while the number of unemployed adult native-born workers increased by 2.3 million over this time, the number of employed immigrants rose by 2.3 million.
Significantly, about half the growth in immigrant employment was from illegal immigration.
It would be a mistake to assume that each job taken by an immigrant is a job lost by a native. Still, such statistics should give pause to those who want to legalize illegal aliens and increase immigration still further...
Immigration2005a · Tue, 02/22/2005 - 10:23 · Importance: 1
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Facts schmacts -- since when did politicians actually pay attention to facts? Not to mention the MSM, especially the financial and business press.
Posted by: eh at Feb 23, 2005 2:11 AM