Jason Richwine of the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) observes that “if immigrants do jobs that Americans won’t do”, there should be occupations in which the workers are overwhelmingly foreign-born.” But of the 525 civilian occupations identified by the Census Bureau, he notes, only five workforces where immigrants (legal and illegal) are the majority.
The following occupations, which many people believe are immigrant majority are actually native-born majority: maids and housekeepers, 51 percent native; construction workers, 61 percent native; home health aides, 61 percent native; landscaping workers, 61 percent native; janitors, 71 percent native.
Legal and illegal immigrants make up about half of agricultural workers, but natives and immigrants together in agriculture are only about one percent of the total American workforce.
From these statistics, Richwine concludes that claiming there are jobs Americans won’t do ”is clearly not a strong argument for immigration.”
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