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Studies on workforce job displacement from mass immigration

• The Impact of New Immigrants on Young Native-Born Workers, 2000-2005, by Paul Harrington, Ishwar Khatiwada Andrew Sum, Center for Immigration Studies, September 2006.
  
  • Between 2000 and 2005, 4.1 million immigrant workers arrived from abroad, accounting for 86 percent of the net increase in the total number of employed persons (16 and older), the highest share ever recorded in the United States.
• Unemployment for Immigrants and the US-Born: Picture Bleak for Less-Educated Black & Hispanic Americans, by CIS, Center for Immigration Studies, February 2009.
  
  • Among US-born blacks and Hispanics without a high school degree, unemployment is 24.7 percent and 16.2 percent respectively - two to three times the national rate.
• A Huge Pool of Potential Workers: Unemployment, Underemployment, and Non-Work Among Native-Born Americans, by Steven A. Camarota, Karen Jensenius, Center for Immigration Studies, December 2009.
  
  • As of the third quarter of 2009, there are 12.5 million unemployed native-born Americans, but the broader U-6 measure shows 21 million natives unemployed or underemployed.
  • The unemployment rate for immigrants with less than a high school education is 12.3 percent. Their U-6 measure is 27.4 percent. The unemployment rate for young immigrants (18-29) with only a high school education is 12.2 percent. Their U-6 measure is 25.2 percent.
• Increasing the Supply of Labor Through Immigration: Measuring the Impact on Native-born Workers, by George Borjas, Center for Immigration Studies, April 2004.
  
  • By increasing the supply of labor between 1980 and 2000, immigration reduced the average annual earnings of native-born men by an estimated $1,700 or roughly 4 percent.
• Latino Labor Report, 2004 - More Jobs for New Immigrants but at Lower Wages, by Rakesh Kochhar, PEW Hispanic Center, May 2, 2005
  • Hispanic workers enjoyed significant gains in employment in 2004. But the concentration of Latinos in relatively low-skill occupations contributed to reduced earnings for them for the second year in a row.
• Immigration's Impact on U.S. Workers, by Steven A. Camarota, Center for Immigration Studies, November 2009 (Testimony).
  
  • There is huge supply of potential less-educated workers. In 2007, before the recession, there were more than 22 million native-born Americans (18 to 65) with a high school degree or less not working. In the third quarter of 2009 it was nearly 26 million.
  • There is no evidence that immigrants only do jobs Americans don't want. Of the 465 occupations defined by the government, only four are majority immigrant. Many jobs often thought to be majority immigrant are in fact majority native.
• Illegal Immigrants and HR 3200: Estimate of Potential Costs to Taxpayers, by Steven A. Camarota, Center for Immigration Studies, September 2009.
  
  • We estimate that there are 6.6 million uninsured illegal immigrants in the United States who could be covered by the new health care reform bill (HR 3200).
• Statistical Portrait of Hispanics in the United States, 2008, by the PEW Hispanic Center, 2008.
  • 2,526,882 (17%) foreign-born Hispanics live in poverty.
• Trends in Immigrant and Native Employment, by Steven A. Camarota, Karen Jensenius, Center for Immigration Studies, May 2009.
  
  • Immigrant unemployment in the first quarter of 2009 was 9.7 percent, the highest level since 1994, when data began to be collected for immigrants.
• Illegal Immigration and the Colonization of the American Labor Market, by Philip Martin, Center for Immigration Studies, 1986.
  • The longer illegal immigration persists, the more low wages will be incorporated into the values of business assets and the longer entrepreneurs will ignore options for less labor-intensive forms of production. Immigration reforms will be resisted by old owners who have come to expect their subsidy, and by new owners who have already paid an extra price for the subsidy when they bought the land or business.
• Immigration Is Hurting The U.S. Worker: Low Paid American workers have borne the heaviest impact of immigration, by Steven A. Camarota, Center for Immigration Studies, April 2007.
  
  • Low-paid American workers have borne the heaviest impact of immigration. This is largely because of the educational profile of the bulk of today's immigrants. Nine percent of adult native-born Americans (ages 18 to 64) were high school dropouts in 2006, while 34 percent of recent adult immigrants had not completed high school. (The rate was 60 percent for illegal immigrants.)
• Fewer migrants mean more benefits: As immigration enforcement takes hold, jobs begin to open up to less-skilled Americans, by Mark Krikorian, Center for Immigration Studies, September 2007.
  
  • The results we've seen so far are clear: We can get illegal aliens to return home, and doing so will improve conditions in American communities. Why didn't we start doing this a long time ago?
• Immigration Policy and Organized Labor: A Never-Ceasing Issue, by Vernon M. Briggs Jr., (Congressional testimony) Center for Immigration Studies, May 2007.
  
• Immigration Reform and the U.S. Labor Force: The Questionable "Wisdom" of S.2611 (i.e. The Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006), by Vernon M. Briggs Jr., Center for Immigration Studies, August 2006.
  
  • Immigration is a policy-driven issue. Policy changes make a difference. Any changes should be to the benefit of the nation - especially the welfare of its existing labor force.
  • The underlying reform issue that must be addressed before any others is illegal immigration. It makes no sense to debate remedies for deficiencies and/or additions to the extant immigration system when mass violations of whatever is enacted are tolerated year after year after year.

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