According to a major
new report from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), net
employment growth in the United
States since 2000 has gone entirely to
immigrants, legal and illegal. Using data from the Bureau of Labor
Statistics, CIS scholars Steven A. Camarota and Karen Zeigler found that there
were 127,000 fewer working-age natives holding a job in the first quarter of
2014 than in 2000, while the number of immigrants with a job was 5.7 million
above the 2000 level.
The rapidity with which
immigrants recovered from the Great Recession, as well as the fact that they
held a disproportionate share of jobs relative to their share of population
growth before the recession, help to explain their findings, the authors report.
In addition, native-born Americans and immigrants were affected differently by
the recession.
Other significant findings
include . . . . . .
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