“One of the Greatest Stories Never Told”: Employers Have Stopped Hiring Americans, but are Hiring “Immigrants”

 

Over the past 12 months:

• The immigrant labor force (people working or looking for work) increased by 2.5%; the native labor force declined by 0.8%

• Foreign-born employment rose by 838,000; native employment fell by 48,000

• The share of foreign-born holding jobs rose 1.5%; the share of natives with jobs fell by 0.7%

• The foreign-born working age population rose 2.4%; the native-born working age population rose 0.6%—one fourth as fast.

[“January Jobs: Immigrants Displace Natives at Record Rate,” by Ed Rubenstein, VDARE, February 5, 2011.]