Posted on 09/27/2011 12:55:20 PM PDT by VU4G10
Governor Rick Perry is quick to tout the job growth in Texas as one of his defining characteristics, accomplishments and results that Americans should depend on when considering him for the Republican nomination for president. Placing this issue front and center has pushed him forward and convinced many that he may be the candidate to support to resurrect a climate of positive job creation in this country. As there is a continued downturn in the US job market it seems like a plausible consideration until you actually take a look at the job climate Perry created in Texas. As with everything in politics bending things in your favor when the truth is not quite as appealing is an art form. And Perry, his team and supporters are either masters or blinded by numbers they have not looked into. The Center for Immigration Studies has taken up the challenge of actually looking into the jobs created in Texas and just who those jobs went to in a new report.
The report confirms that jobs were created in Texas, 279,000 to be exact, over the last 4 years from 2007 to 2011. Who has received these jobs and how this impacts the United States as a whole - should Perry become president - is another matter. The report, which used census data, finds that of the 279,000 jobs created 225,000 of those jobs went to immigrants, both legal and illegal, who arrived in the US in the same four year period.
The majority of growth of working age people in Texas - 69% - was of native born Texans. Yet of this group they only received 19% of the newly created jobs in the state. The rest went to immigrants who came into the state since 2007.
The most damning statistic the report finds is that half of the 81% of jobs immigrants received were taken by illegal aliens. Thus 40% of all job growth in Texas in the past four years went to illegal aliens, 40% went to non-citizen legal immigrants and 19% went to native Texans who are US citizens. The report finds also that the jobs taken are far from the "jobs Americans won't do". The job types taken were not only of a low-skilled blue collar type; a third of the immigrants who took a job had some college. It was across the educational spectrum of jobs that immigrants received over native Texans. I contend that it is not because the immigrants were more qualified, but that the jobs climate that Rick Perry created in the state of Texas was in favor of immigrants over the native born.
When just the number of employed native born Texans are analyzed for the past four years, the numbers speak volumes as to the truth of the jobs situation in Texas. In 2007 the percent of native born Texans with a job was 71%, in 2011 it is 67%, a 4% drop in native employment. As the report points out this is consistent with the rate of employment of all the other states.
... it is difficult to find evidence to support the argument that things are very different in Texas than in the rest of the country for the native-born population. In the second quarter of 2011, the unemployment rate in Texas was 8.1 percent for natives, ranking the state 22nd out of 50 states in terms of the lowest rate. If we compare the growth in unemployment from 2007 to 2011, the rate roughly doubled in Texas, which is very similar to what happened in the country as a whole. The share of working-age natives holding a job in Texas was 66.6 percent in 2011, ranking Texas 29th in the nation. Both the unemployment rate and the employment rate represent a significant deterioration for natives since 2007. A deterioration that roughly parallels what took place in the rest of the nation.
Is this really a jobs program we want for the United States?
When governor Perry points out that he's created jobs, he has created jobs for non-citizens in his state. He has created jobs for those who cannot vote for him, while those who supported him are left out of a job. It is simply ludicrous to have the largest growth in your state be native Texans, yet to have 81% of new jobs not go to those native Texans and then to turn around and call that a win for your state on job creation.
The reality is that Texas governor Rick Perry has encouraged illegal immigration. He has also encouraged legal immigrants in his state to create and give jobs to other immigrants, both illegal and legal over US citizens. There can simply be no other way to look at it. There is no reason for growth to be in one segment of the population, denying it to all the others unless the job climate created favored that situation. It defies logic and reason to see this happen and not believe that there is either an incentive balance created by the state legislature of Texas and Rick Perry, or there is some outright racism going on favoring immigrants over citizens in how people are being hired. The only other false argument that could be made is to believe that native Texans are simply a lazy bunch of people - and that I do not believe.
This all boils down to the truth of the matter and that truth is that the facts point out that Rick Perry is the governor of the non-citizen. He looks out for non-citizens first and touts his job creation among them as his highest accomplishment. That is not what we need for the United States. We need a leader who is willing to support the creation of jobs among all segments of society and not put in place incentives that favor illegal aliens and the guests we have allowed to come to our country over the citizens of our nation. When you hear Perry say anything about job creation in Texas, remember that the US Citizens in Texas were not among those who received those jobs by and large, they were illegal aliens and guests we have invited in to compete directly against American workers who have taken 81% of the jobs in Texas.
Did I miss something? Headline reads: “Immigrants”. . . Not illegal immigrants . . . So what’s the problem?
PS Sarah’s my first choice, Herman’s my second.
Well, gee, who wants to hire heartless people?
You made an assumption based on what I did not say - therefore not understanding at all what I meant - and responded to me with information that is not relevant to my point at all - thus we are done here.
As an undecided with published cred on pro Palin and pro Cain articles (and nothing either way on Perry) I was simply saying that Digger’s particular argument was weak. Anything beside the particular argument made by Digger is totally not relevant to my argument.
I don’t think the jobs created include illegals mainly because it is against the law to create a job for an illegal or hire one.
It would really stupid to report you hired an illegal.
Exactly where do these statistics come from? Is there a line on the W-4 that asks if you are an immigrant? Legal or illegal? Country of birth? I don’t remember seeing that on any W-4s I’ve had to fill out.
Look, puppydog. My post was not about illegal immigration. I oppose illegal immigration and so do most conservatives. Guess you missed that part.
This has to with legal immigration and the efforts by John Tanton and his fellow nativists, racists and white-supremacists at CIS, FAIR, NumbersUSA and their associates at Stormfront and VDARE, who support ideas like "racial purity through eugenics"". Tanton and his fellow fringers smearing Rick Perry. Not a novel idea but good to know.
This week its Tanton&Company. Last week it was Texans for Public Justice, a Democrat front group. Next week, who knows. LOL
I can’t wrap my brain around the fact that Perry (and apparently a lot of other Texans) feel it’s perfectly logical to provide in-state tuition to an illegal from Mexico. While at the same time charging out-of-state tuition to a legal American citizen kid from Oklahoma, who might happen to live 1 mile from the Texas border.
Sorry to have confused you with the reality of the source of digger’s information ;)
For Real Reagan Man, next week who knows...could be an illegal in the White House throwing ..well you know...
Just joking.
source of information at:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2784505/posts?page=26#26
You being a smart ass doesn’t change the fact that you assumed I had a certain agenda and you replied based on your assumption and not on the narrow problem I had with the reasoning of the post.
Right. I originally read the report as jobs taken legal and illegal (or recently arrived) immigranats. 81%.
True. But we do have a lot of legal immigrants working in Texas from all over the world. There have been a lot of tech jobs created.
I don’t think the numbers are off as far as job created here and I’ll go along with maybe as many as 5-10% could be illegal.
My son worked in construction as a supervisor and he told me ICE showed up at one of the new construction houses being built. They checked all of their documentation and surprisingly not a single one of them was without papers.
They were all legal.
Most illegals work on the farms, road construction and landscaping. You can hire a contractor but you can’t control who he hires. Seems like I remember Romney getting grilled over something like that in the past. But I don’t doubt he was unaware.
When the recession first hit, many went back to Mexico because there were no jobs for them.
Especially when it is, according to American immigration laws, a crime to hire illegals.
It seems special interest groups,such as affirmative action, homosexuals, pedophiles, animal rights groups, illegal immigrants, and anything green are all subversive anti-Christian, anti-Constitutional and not in the best interests of freedom loving and tax paying American citizens.
Hate to disillusion you about tech jobs but most tech ‘guest workers’ who often pay no or partial taxes and are brought in as cheap labor. There never has been a shortage of techies in the US, not ever during Y2K.
Many are unaware that ~ 40% of illegals are visa overstays, and white collar professionals (techies, physicians, nurses etc.) now not only compete with guest workers but also illegals who work through temp companies that vouch for them.
Legal immigration (guest workers who often pay no or partial taxes, and green cards) are as big a problem as illegals.
http://townhall.com/columnists/patbuchanan/2011/09/20/whose_country_is_it,_anyway :
“Thus, well over a million workers are added annually to our labor force when 14 million Americans are looking for work “[actually 125,000 per month or 1.5 million per year].
...
“U.S. companies see immigrants, legal or illegal, as an endless source of cheap labor to keep wage costs down. And they are right.”
Stop your whining. I appreciate Brother Buchanan and the WSJ pieces. They point out what we all know. The national economy sucks. Middle class folks are getting the short end of the American Dream. Since you obviously agree with John Tanton on severely restricting legal immigration. I take it, you too support a call for white supremacy and eugenics. TR, Wilson and Churchill did, so you're in good company.
>>>>>Boy, maybe you don't mind being the welfare and HR department for the world, I and many other conservatives do.
You need to find a better subject to criticize me on, bucko. That nativist hyperbole won't work. The US has to compete in the worldwide economy. So we will not turn into "Fortress America". If US companies stopped employing foreigners, we'd be in far worse shape then we are today. Properly educating our children should be the #1 priority to revive the US economy long term and to restore American exceptionalism. People are always coming to America. I'd rather they'd be legal foreigners as opposed to illegal aliens. Either way, they will come nonetheless.
If the Feds properly secured the border, we could start getting our house in order. Concentrate on correcting faults within the legal immigration system and streamlining the federal bureaucracy. Since liberals comprise the vast majoirty of US civil servants, I doubt we'll see any serious changes coming soon.
Btw, this conservative would like to see a more limited and less intrusive federal government. A govt that lives by the Constitution.
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