Mass immigration advocates often claim that “immigrants do jobs that Americans won’t do.” But if that is true, notes Jason Richwine of the Center for Immigration Studies, “there should be occupations in which the workers are overwhelmingly foreign-born.” Yet, as he continues, “among hundreds of occupations identified by the Census Bureau, natives outnumber immigrants in all but a handful, and in none of them do illegal immigrants constitute a majority.”
The Census Bureau lists 525 civilian occupations, and only five have a majority of immigrant workers. Just one of them, “manicurists and pedicurists,” has a foreign-born majority exceeding 60 percent. Even in those five occupations, native-born Americans are at least 40 percent of the workforce.
In occupations where many people believe that immigrants are the majority, the following are the true percentages: Maids and housekeepers: 51 percent native; Construction laborers: 61 percent native; Home health aides: 61 percent native; Landscaping workers: 66 percent native; Janitors: 71 percent native. Around half of agricultural workers are foreign-born, but natives and immigrants in agriculture make up less than one percent of the total U.S. workforce.
With immigrants competing with native-born Americans in so many fields, it is most likely that they are depressing wages and limiting job opportunities for those native-born workers.
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