How Immigration Causes Problems in a Jobless Recovery

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Of course neither side wants to address this because of the Hispanic votes, but this had some good points especially regarding the arguement that they are taking jobs that americans don't want.

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- Of the 900,000 net increase in jobs between March 2003 and 2004, two-thirds went to immigrant workers, even though they account for only 15 percent of all adult workers.

- There is little evidence that immigrants take only jobs Americans don’t want. Even those occupations with the highest concentrations of new immigrants still employ millions of native-born workers.

- The decline in native employment was most pronounced in states where immigrants increased their share of workers the most.

- Occupations with the largest immigrant influx tended to have the highest unemployment rates among natives.



Also Here's transcipt from Interview:

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"In job categories, such as agriculture, building maintenance, construction and food preparation, native-born Americans still hold the majority of jobs, but they're rapidly losing them to immigrants."