Report: American Born Workers Struggle To Compete With Immigrants

Immigrants are not only replacing native born Americans in the job market, where I live in the Southwest, ability to speak Spanish is increasingly required to land a job.

I hear complaints about this on local talk radio every day, especially when it comes to construction jobs. No Spanish = No Job.

Dry wallers say that they used to get $17/ hour and now can’t even find jobs that now pay $10/hour. Reason? No Spanish.

It works that way in California too. Illegals work under the table almost everywhere for cash - but collect all kinds of welfare benefits for themselves and, especially their children. So they get to keep the cash AND collect the benefits too.

It is unsustainable as more and more productive citizens flee the state and there are fewer to fleece. Meanwhile, immigrants, legal and illegal continue to pour into the state, welcomed by lavish benefits and sanctuary cities and a pro-illegal immigrant government.

We’ve stopped eating out because of illegals cooking in kitchens with unsanitary personal habits. I think brain worm, chagas, TB, etc. is a lot more widespread than the fedgov is telling us.

Liberals and abortion... liberals should be directly replaced one for one by illegals.

It’s both illegal and legal immigrants that drive down American wages. But mostly illegal.

Because illegals can work ONLY off the books. The black market labor economy where I live, Los Angeles, is officially bigger than the legal, tax paying economy. We crossed that Rubicon about ten years ago. That stat was quickly buried by open borders advocates.

And also? The “8 million” estimate for illegals in this country is laughable. There’s good evidence based on California public school enrollment figures (”what language is spoken at home?”), that the number of illegal immigrants is 11 million in California alone.

"It’s actually more attractive for an employer to hire an illegal alien, because they’ll work off the books and for less money."

Not for long they wont.

That's why it's soooo important to keep the "immigration reform" chatter going loud enough to be heard from way south of the border. Gotta keep the new arrivals coming that will be willing to take less money.

It’s both illegal and legal immigrants that drive down American wages. But mostly illegal.<

There are twice the number of legal immigrants in the workforce than illegal.

Because illegals can work ONLY off the books. The black market labor economy where I live, Los Angeles, is officially bigger than the legal, tax paying economy. We crossed that Rubicon about ten years ago. That stat was quickly buried by open borders advocates.

Most illegals work off the books, but many of them use stolen or fraudulent SSNs and work "legally." We spend over $4 billion a year on EITCs for illegal aliens. Even the IRS IG identified the problem. And many of these illegal aliens are collecting welfare benefits thru their US born children.

And also? The “8 million” estimate for illegals in this country is laughable. There’s good evidence based on California public school enrollment figures (”what language is spoken at home?”), that the number of illegal immigrants is 11 million in California alone.

Agree. The 8 million are official USG figures along with the claim that there are 11.5 million illegal aliens total. We don't know how many are here, which makes this legalization push even the more dangerous. In 1986 the USG estimated that 1 million would apply for amnesty. The true number turned out to be 2.7 million.

Obama's backdoor amnesty for Dreamers is a major reason why these unaccompanied "children" are flooding the border. When you reward something, you get more of it. Imagine the tsunami of illegal aliens that will come into this country once Congress gives even a sniff that an amnesty is on the way. It will make the current situation at the border look like a trickle compared to the numbers that will come in not only thru the border but also those flying in on visas who intend to stay. An amnesty will destroy this country with the stroke of a pen. And I define amnesty as any legislation that allows the lawbreakers to stay and work here. Citizenship is just the cherry on top.