President Joe Biden’s jobs record is built on the record hiring of 2.9 million job-seeking migrants — and a persistent 183,000 deficit in the number of Americans with jobs compared to 2019, according to a report by the Center for Immigration Studies.
Biden’s “Immigrant employment … has exploded,” said a statement by Steven Camarota, who wrote the report, titled “All Employment Growth Has Gone to Immigrants, Compared to 2019.
“The number of U.S.-born Americans working [has grown yet] has still not returned to the 2019 pre-Covid level,” he added.
The data does not say that American job-seekers are being unfairly pushed aside while employers only hire migrants for new jobs.
Instead, the data showed that all of Biden’s extra jobs above the 2019 level are held by his migrants — even as U.S.-born workers have not regained all their jobs held in 2019.
The share of working Americans remains below 2019 rates, partly because many older Americans are retiring while relatively few young Americans are joining the workforce. This demographic decline ensures that CEOs are likely to fill many jobs with hard-working migrants who are replacing the American babies who were not born in the early 2000s.
But Biden also makes it easy and profitable for CEOs to hire illegal migrants instead of the many Americans who still do not have jobs.
There are roughly five million working-age American men who could be hired for the extra jobs in the economy, Camarota told Breitbart News. Employers prefer not to hire them because they are sidelined in jobless towns, or by drug addiction, ill-health, criminal records, apathy, and alienation.
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Government policies generally ignore those sidelined Americans. For example, the 5 million discarded Americans are not counted as unemployed because they have not looked for jobs in the last month. Instead, they are described by government officials are not participating in the labor force .
“Labor force participation among non-college-educated U.S.-born men has not even returned to the 2019 level, which itself was very low by historical standards,” Camarota said in his report. He added:
The labor force participation rate of U.S.-born men without a bachelor’s (18 to 64) has still not returned to the 76.3 percent it was in the fourth quarter of 2019, which was lower than the 80.5 percent in 2006 and the 82.6 percent in 2000.
Biden’s policies encourage CEOs to ignore these sidelined Americans.
For example, Biden’s deputies have welcomed more than 6.2 million illegal migrants across the southern border. The welcome allows CEOs to hire cheap, drug-free, and grateful foreigners at the local bus station instead of going through the painful process of hiring and training alienated, unfit, unhealthy, and resentful Americans.
The scale of the replacement was outlined at a September 2023 House hearing by Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the business-backed American Action Forum:
In 2021, 96 percent of the 70,601 synthetic opioid caused deaths were in the prime-age labor force. AAF research found that between 2013 and 2021, opioid use accounted for the loss of more than 1.3 million workers … Opioid use contributes to lower worker productivity, increased worker absenteeism, increased job openings through employee turnover, and reduced labor supply.
Clearly, it also increases the likelihood that employers must turn to illegal labor to fill employment needs.
The government policies also allow investors to profit by creating low-productivity jobs for eager migrants that could not be profitable if employers had to pay decent wages to Americans.
This growth-by-poverty strategy is especially clear in the major coastal cities — such as New York. The strategy is backed by the Democratic Party because government workers also can profit by delivering aid and welfare to the underpaid migrants.
If Biden blocked the migrants, the investors would be pressured to invest in higher-productivity jobs that could allow higher wages and less welfare . The reduced flow of migrants would also prod coastal CEOs to create new jobs in the many Heartland states that are home to sidelined Americans.
Since 1990, the government’s vast inflow of migrants has created a bubble of cheap labor for extra low-productivity jobs in coastland states. That inflow allows government officials to display high job-creation numbers while concealing the massive transfer of high-productivity jobs to China, Mexico, India, and other countries.
For example, the number of restaurant jobs rose from 12.5 million in 2008 to 15 million in 2018, according to RestaurantBusiness.com. The growth of 2.5 million jobs was made possible by the steady inflow of job-seeking migrants during President Barack Obama’s terms, and by government welfare policies that allow employers to hire people at below-poverty wages.
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From 2008 to 2010, the number of U.S. manufacturing jobs fell by 2.5 million.
The government’s post-1990 cheap-labor bubble finally burst amid the 2020 coronavirus crash and President Donald Trump’s willingness to shut down the migrant inflow. The economic crisis also encouraged many migrants to go home. Those three factors helped to push up Americans’ wages in 2020.
But Biden’s deputies have used their vast inflow of migrants since 2021 to quickly reverse Trump’s pro-American wage gains.
Since 2021, Biden’s pro-migration policy has flatlined real wages — partly by spiking inflation — even as it grew the number of jobs filled by migrants.
This process helps Biden boast about creating millions of new jobs while also hiding the steady loss of wages nationwide.
The gradual drop in wages — and the rise in housing costs — also reduce the number of children born to American families. So Biden’s pro-migration allies use that painful problem as an excuse to import even more migrants.
“Now, more than ever, we’re short of workers,” Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said at a November 2022 press conference, which was intended to tout several draft amnesties for illegal migrants. He continued :
We have a population that is not reproducing on its own with the same level that it used to. The only way we’re going to have a great future in America is if we welcome and embrace immigrants, the dreamers and all of them — because our ultimate goal is to help the Dreamers [illegals who were brought in by their parents] get a path to citizenship for all 11 million — or however many undocumented there are here [emphasis added].
Biden’s “[migration] increase in population will put downward pressure on average real wages [emphasis added],” said a report by the Congressional Budget Office, which was released on February 7.
“Average real wages are expected to be slightly lower by 2034 [emphasis added] than they would be otherwise,” the report said, adding:
From 2028 to 2034, labor income is projected to remain stable as a percentage of [Gross Domestic Product] GDP, averaging 57.1 percent. That projection is below labor income’s average percentage of GDP from 1947 to 2000, 60.4 percent [emphasis added], because some factors that have depressed labor income relative to GDP since 2000 are expected to persist in the coming decade.
The official report reinforces the vast evidence that the federal policy of Extraction Migration shifts family wages and workplace investment toward Wall Street , real estate , coastal states , and government .
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Leftwing ‘experts’ tout the illegal invasion as a ‘$7 trillion gift’ to the economy
Here, the Congressional Budget Office says that the increase in “immigration” will increase the GDP by $7 trillion over ten years, and increase federal tax collections by $1 trillion, and Catherine Rampell of The Washington Post just parrots the talking point like it’s true:
The surge in immigration is a $7 trillion gift to the economy
Last week, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released updated 10-year economic and budget forecasts . The numbers look significantly better than they did a year earlier, and immigration is a key reason.
The CBO has now factored in a previously unexpected surge in immigration that began in 2022, which the agency assumes will persist for several years. These immigrants are more likely to work than their native-born counterparts, largely because immigrants skew younger. This infusion of working-age immigrants will more than offset the expected retirement of the aging, native-born population.
This will in turn lead to better economic growth. As CBO Director Phill Swagel wrote in a note accompanying the forecasts : As a result of these immigration-driven revisions to the size of the labor force, ‘we estimate that, from 2023 to 2034, GDP will be greater by about $7 trillion and revenues will be greater by about $1 trillion than they would have been otherwise.’
In that case, every country in the world should just erase their borders too, and incentivize the entire third world population to flood in! What harm could it do? Somehow the CBO didn’t distinguish between illegal and legal immigration
Paul Krugman also ran this same piece of propaganda recently
First off, why would anyone trust numbers from the CBO, which appears to just pull numbers from a hat? The office also said Obamacare would pay for itself, but the cost skyrocketed; it also pretended that if the government took over student loans, it would make the government substantial amounts of money. Instead, the government is spending hundreds of billions.
The office said the Inflation Reduction Act would cost a fraction of what it’s actually costing; at this moment, it looks like we taxpayers will be another $800 billion in the hole, at a minimum.
Of course it also falsely repeated the Democrat talking points that the Trump tax rate cuts would cost trillions, when the reality yielded increased revenues by trillions.
So why would we trust a ten-year projection on immigration from CBO that looks like a Democrat campaign ad?
For years, Democrats in sanctuary cities and states have said how they would welcome all illegals and not enforce immigration laws, because of how great this would be for their economy.
Now Democrat cities far and wide like New York, Chicago, and Denver are endlessly bellyaching about the cost of illegals, and blaming Republicans instead of Joe Biden for letting them flood in for over the past three years. They are claiming Abbott is a racist for shipping the illegals that cross into Texas to the places that actually welcomed them. They are cutting services to citizens to cover the massive costs. Housing, schools, hospitals, and education are being overwhelmed. Did CBO factor that into their calculations? I doubt it. Did they factor in all the inflationary aspects of flooding the country wil l millions of additional people? Again, I doubt it.
We are constantly told that these illegals do work that Americans just won’t do. That is also a load of garbage. I believe most of us remember that we all worked jobs that citizens just won't do. I cut lawns, detasseled corn, shoveled out cow barns, washed dishes, and bussed tables while growing up, all for low wages. My parents taught us to work, just like they did. Teenagers should be taught to work, and a good place to start is the minimum wage jobs that Americans supposedly would not do—there is no excuse for only 30% of teens working .
We are also continuously told that illegals don’t get access to government benefits. That is also a joke. They use government welfare programs at a higher rate than U.S .citizens. My guess is that CBO forgot to factor in all these additional costs into their rosy estimates. From the Center for Immigration Studies :
This report is based on newly released data from the 2022 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). Analysis of this data shows both immigrants and the U.S.-born make extensive use of means-tested anti-poverty programs, with immigrant households significantly more likely to receive benefits. This is primarily because the American welfare system is designed in large part to help low-income families with children, which describes a large share of immigrants. The ability of immigrants, including illegal immigrants, to receive welfare benefits on behalf of U.S.-born citizen children is a key reason why restrictions on welfare use for new legal immigrants, and illegal immigrants, are relatively ineffective.
Among the findings:
The 2022 SIPP indicates that 54 percent of households headed by immigrants — naturalized citizens, legal residents, and illegal immigrants — used one or more major welfare program. This compares to 39 percent for U.S.-born households.
The rate is 59 percent for non-citizen households (e.g. green card holders and illegal immigrants).
Compared to households headed by the U.S.-born, immigrant-headed households have especially high use of food programs (36 percent vs. 25 percent for the U.S.-born), Medicaid (37 percent vs. 25 percent for the U.S.-born), and the Earned Income Tax Credit (16 percent vs. 12 percent for the U.S.-born).
Our best estimate is that 59 percent of households headed by illegal immigrants, also called the undocumented, use at least one major program.
It is worthless when most people posing as journalists just repeat what they are told (Democrat talking points) whether it is about immigration, COVID, or climate change. The media acts like predictions are facts, and facts are misinformation.
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