[kabar]

The data I cited are from the Bureau of the Census, not BLS.

Census Bureau data collected from 2009 to 2011, which allows for detailed analysis of all 472 separate occupations, shows that there were only a handful of majority-immigrant occupations. Thus, there really are no jobs that Americans won't do. Further, we estimated the share of occupations that are comprised of illegal immigrants, and found that there are no occupations in which the majority of workers are illegally in the country.

Immigrants, legal and illegal are taking American jobs and depressing wages. There is a reason why our labor participation rates are at 38 year lows or that this is the lowest teenage employment rates since the end of WWII. The native born are being screwed and the middle class destroyed.

[C. Edmund Wright]

But none of that addresses the willingness to work. NONE OF IT.

Look, there’s two huge differences between you and I: A: I have tried repeatedly to show you where we agree, and in some way to improve the dialogue....but you have insisted on being an asshole. B: I lived it, 23 years, you researched it from the sterile laptop......Sorry, I don’t care. I know what I lived. Besides, your figures don’t address the why....just the what. I know the why. You refuse, because it’s inconvenient for you.