Study: All Job Growth Since 2000 Went to Immigrants

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/06/26/Study-All-Job-Growth-Sinc
e-2000-Went-to-Immigrants

Illegal and legal immigrants have accounted for all of the job growth in the
United States since 2000.

On the one-year anniversary of the passage of the Senate's "Gang of Eight"
comprehensive immigration reform bill, the Center for Immigration Studies
(CIS) released a report on Friday that revealed that even though native-born
Americans accounted for two-thirds of the growth in the total working-age
population since 2000, the number of native-born Americans with jobs
declined by 127,000.

While there were 114.8 million working-age native-born Americans with jobs
in the first quarter of 2000, there were only 114.7 million with jobs in the
first quarter of 2014. On the other hand, 17.1 million working-age
immigrants (legal and illegal) had jobs in 2000 while 22.8 million did in
2014, which is an increase of 5.7 million.

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), who has relentlessly encouraged his colleagues to
put American workers first during the immigration debate, told Breitbart
News that the report's findings are "shocking" and "represent a dramatic
indictment of immigration policy in Washington D.C" while underscoring the
"economic catastrophe that would have ensued" had the Gang of Eight's bill
been signed into law and further hollowed out the middle class.

"There is no doubt that a long, sustained period of high immigration,
combined with increased automation and the offshoring of jobs, has produced
a loose, low-wage labor market," Sessions said. "In spite of this, the
President continues to champion legislation that would place further
substantial downward pressure on wages."

Champions of comprehensive immigration reform have said amnesty and more
legal immigration are needed because the country has a labor shortage and
more immigration increases job opportunities for native-born Americans. But
the report, consistent with others, found that there is a labor surplus and
that massive immigration reduces employment opportunities for native-born
Americans.
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