Not to be argumentative, but would the 29 million legal immigrants be counted as unemployed if.......they are laid off? Wouldn’t they be part of the unemployment number?
Or, perhaps, what we’re seeing is a bias on the part of employers to hire legal immigrants as opposed to “born in US” people?
But what we’re talking about here is labor participation rate, i.e., the percentage of those in their working years participating in employment. And that number is in steep decline.
Just my opinion, but I think two factors are at work here. First, automation and robotics have eliminated a ton of jobs and second, the Universities aren’t teaching to the Employers needs such that whereas the biggest area of job growth is high-tech and medical. Liberal Arts graduates aren’t cutting it.
They don’t self-deport.
They have many more children than American citizens.
Since there are such high numbers for the past 3 decades, I challenge the 11 million illegals are here numbers.
I say the number of illegals here searching for amnesty is much closer to 55 million.
Do your own math-—then rethink all this amnesty crap.