An immigration reform think tank has published a new study that shows the labor pool of illegal immigrants continues to have a negative impact on U.S. unemployment.
The Center for Immigration Studies says its study has revealed that 79 percent of illegal aliens have no more than a high school education and are in direct competition with less-educated American citizens for employment opportunities.
CIS executive director Mark Krikorian contends there is no shortage of such American-born workers able to do the kind of work done by those who are in the country illegally.
“When you look at the unemployment numbers for native-born Americans who don’t have a high school diploma, they’re huge,” he emphasizes. “So the idea that there’s no people to do the kind of relatively less-skilled jobs that illegal immigrants do is just complete baloney.”
Krikorian says while admittedly there are some Americans who are unwilling to work, that does not mean the solution is to hire illegal immigrants.
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I have a friend who works at a small branch post office, who told me he does more business there sending money orders for illegals sending money they earn / steal here back to their families in Mexico, etc.
Only about 2% of the illegals are migratory workers. The remaining 98% do other types jobs, or collect welfare, etc. And many of the jobs they do are skilled blue-collar type jobs paying more than most college-grad teachers get.
For example, I know an illegal making over $2,000 a week at an auto upholstery shop. That’s over 100K yearly! How many of our college-grad teachers earn that much? Most Americans DON’T.
And he told me he sends almost 90 percent of his paycheck home to his family in Mexico City, while living here with a “girlfriend” collecting welfare and food stamps.
Plus, he conserves his paycheck further by getting “free” food, clothing, etc. from taxpayer-funded agencies and church donations intended for our own needy people.
He even got one taxpayer-funded Latin Community group to pay for his CELLPHONE! So he can stay in touch with his family.
The illegal alien’s name is Ruben. And that car upholstery shop has a “phantom workforce” to supplement its legally employed workforce, which is all they report for tax purposes. Ruben’s brother also works there.
Here’s how he gets paid: If the shop charges a customer $1500 to re-upholster car seats, and it only takes Ruben 3 hours to do it, he gets HALF. So he gets paid about $250 per hour. And both Ruben and the shop are quite happy with their arrangement.
I reported it, giving the name and location of the shop, to my Democrat federal senator’s office, asking them to investigate and prosecute. But they ignored my request… which is typical of most Democrats and many Republicans in Congress. For they are deliberately turning a blind eye to it.
This is far from an isolated example. Illegals are not only stealing high-paying skilled blue-collar type jobs, but also many illegals own their own businesses [construction, home improvement, landscaping, auto repair, roofing, paving, janitorial services, housekeeping, etc., etc.].
Next time you’re in Home Depot or Lowes, look for illegals there getting supplies for their plumbing jobs, etc.
I have a friend who tried starting a janitorial services business. But he gave up after a few months, telling me he couldn’t compete with illegals paying their illegal employees $3 an hour.
Another illegal near me was selling used cars with open titles, parking them at a shopping center with “for sale” signs on anywhere from one to three cars at a time. And he was selling them quickly. Every week I saw different cars. But I reported it to my state’s motor vehicle department, and about a month later they towed his cars away and warned the shopping center to not let anyone sell cars there.
Virtually all of them send money to their families in Mexico, etc. That’s why it’s important to stop them from sucking the lifeblood out of our country’s economy, and replace them with our own people, who will spend their paychecks right here in the good ol’ US of A.
Unless you have lived it no one has any real idea. You see the swarming gangs of illegals at the Home Dept. but that is a drop in the bucket at any construction site. I lived in Phx and had a drywall company for 15 years in Nebraska. I tried in Phoenix for 10 years. It was a struggle from the start especially because I did not and would not speak spanish. Legal companies can’t compete. But it got so bad that my white guys were afraid to go onto big job sites and I was forced to higher mexicans. I had trucks vandalized and tools stolen and face to face confrontations threatening me and my family for taking jobs…FROM THE ILLEGALS! Of course most people will think this is BS. But tell that to my closed company and wife and kids that left me over it. My story is simple compared to the family’s that have been murdered by drug cartels. This is a horrible example of the ineptitude…no…the out right refusal of government to uphold the laws on immigration.