The
Pew Research Center provides lots of useful information in two recent reports.
One of these, released on April 25, shows that the number of undocumented
immigrants in the U.S. remains around the level it hit during the Great
Recession of the late 2000s and early 2010s—in fact, it was actually declining
in 2015. So much for the repeated
warnings from anti-immigrant forces that Obama administration policies
like Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) would set off a new wave of
unauthorized immigration.
Another
report, one issued in March, analyzes the share of immigrants in various
industries and jobs. There’s no industry where immigrants make up the majority of
the workforce, although it’s true that in some jobs (manicurist, for example)
more than 50 percent of the workers are immigrants. But we should note that
even in these jobs, undocumented immigrants are still a minority. Some
advocates feel they’re helping immigrant rights by claiming that “immigrants
just take the jobs we don’t want,” but this is untrue and isn’t going to
convince the many citizens who work alongside immigrants. A far better argument
is that immigrants are our coworkers
and we should support their rights.—TPOI editor.
As
Mexican share declined, U.S. unauthorized immigrant population fell in 2015
below recession level
April
25, 2017
The
number of unauthorized immigrants living in the United States in 2015 fell
below the total at the end of the Great Recession for the first time, with
Mexicans continuing to represent a declining share of this population,
according to new Pew Research Center estimates based on government data.
There
were 11 million unauthorized immigrants living in the U.S. in 2015, a small but
statistically significant decline from the Center’s estimate of 11.3 million
for 2009, the last year of the Great Recession.[…]
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the full article:
Immigrants
don’t make up a majority of workers in any U.S. industry
By
Drew Desilver, Pew Research Center
March
16, 2017
Immigrants
are more likely than U.S.-born workers to be employed in a number of specific
jobs, including sewing machine operators, plasterers, stucco masons and
manicurists. But there are no major U.S. industries in which immigrants
outnumber the U.S. born, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of
government data.
All
told, immigrants made up 17.1% of the total U.S. workforce in 2014, or about
27.6 million workers out of 161.4 million. About 19.6 million workers, or 12.1%
of the total workforce, were in the U.S. legally; about 8 million, or 5%,
entered the country without legal permission or overstayed their visas.
(Roughly 10% of unauthorized immigrants have been granted temporary protection
from deportation and eligibility to work under two federal programs, known as
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and Temporary Protected Status.)[…]
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