Immigrants Account For All Job Gains Since 2000: Native-Born Workers’ Employment Has Fallen

Washington Times – Immigrants — both legal and illegal — have accounted for all of the job gains in the U.S. labor market since 2000, according to a report that highlights the stiff competition for jobs in a tight economy as Congress debates adding more workers to the mix. The Center for Immigration Studies report […]

CBO Figures Show American Wages Will Drop Under Senate Immigration Bill

Fox News – Analysis by the Congressional Budget Office projects that, if the Senate immigration reform bill passes, the influx of new immigrants would have the effect of bringing down the average wage. “The wages of U.S. workers — which should be growing — will instead decline,” said Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL). “It would be […]

Feds Seize 7-Eleven Stores in Immigration Raids

New York Times – Federal authorities seized 14 7-Eleven stores on Long Island and in Virginia early Monday, arresting nine owners and managers and charging them with harboring and hiring illegal immigrants and paying them using sham Social Security numbers. ICE agents and federal prosecutors in Brooklyn are also investigating 40 other 7-Eleven franchises in […]

Immigrants Really Do Rob American Jobs Says New Report

Washington Examiner – An exhaustive new report on the nation’s top 472 occupations finds that immigrants – legal or not – take some jobs from Americans, dispelling the accepted view that foreign workers only fill jobs Americans don’t want to do. “There are really no jobs that Americans won’t do,” said the authoritative report from […]

Senate Reform Bill Puts American Jobs in Jeopardy

NumbersUSA – MUCH MORE THAN AN AMNESTY – The ‘Gang of Eight’ immigration reform bill, if passed, would give out 33 million lifetime work permits to foreign citizens in the first decade. Please take action today to let your Members of Congress know that YOU know that this bill would give out 33 million lifetime […]

Immigration Redistributes Income from Poor U.S. Workers

Center for Immigration Studies – A new report by Harvard economist George Borjas and published by the Center for Immigration Studies finds that the flow of one million immigrants into the United States each year does not substantially raise the overall income of native-born Americans. Borjas, recognized by Business Week and the Wall Street Journal […]