Since 2020 approximately, according to data cited by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), almost 90 percent of new job growth went to immigrants, 60 percent of whom were illegal aliens. During that period immigrants gained more than 4.7 million jobs, compared with only around 645,000 jobs for native-born Americans.
CIS researcher Steven Camarota observed that “All this at a time when a near-record share of working-age U.S.-born men remain out of the labor force.” Since the 1960s, when the current wave of mass immigration began, the share of those men has increased from 11 percent to 22 percent today, a total of 43 million men.
One reason for this trend is that Americans have felt less inclined to work as immigration has suppressed the wage levels of many jobs and weakened the incentive for employers to improve working conditions. We could encourage many Americans to enter or re-enter the workforce–and thereby meet our labor needs–if we cut mass immigration.
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