With Jobless Rates Like These, How Can Anybody Consider More Foreign Workers or an Amnesty?
Official U.S. U-6 Unemployment Rates
Groups |
All U.S.-born |
HispanicU.S.-born |
BlackU.S.-born |
Young adults
|
17.5% |
17.1% |
16.7% |
High school
|
30.8% |
26.4% |
53.9% |
Teens (16-17) |
28.3% |
35% |
44.1% |
SOURCE: From Center for Immigration Studies analysis of public-use January-March 2013 Current Population Surveys. The government's U-6 Unemployment Rate counts not only people actively looking for a job who cannot find any kind of work, but it also counts "discouraged workers" who just recently stopped their unsuccessful quest for a job and those wanting a full-time job who have been forced into a part-time position.
Unemployment Rates for All Veterans
Age |
Total |
Men |
Women |
18-24 Years |
30.2% |
29.1% |
36.1% |
25-34 Years |
12% |
12.4% |
9.2% |
SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Dept. of Labor, The Editor's Desk, Employment Situation of Veterans- 2011 on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/ted/2012/ted_20120323.htm
Unemployment Rates for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans (Post 9/11)
Age |
Total |
Men |
Women |
18-24 Years
|
30.2% |
29.1% |
36.1% |
25-34 Years
|
13% |
13.4% |
10.6% |
SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Dept. of Labor, The Editor's Desk, Employment Situation of Veterans- 2011 on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/ted/2012/ted_20120323.htm
Unemployment Rate for Veterans by Race and Ethnicity
Race/Service |
Post 9/11 Wars |
Total |
Black |
14.3% |
11.2% |
Hispanic |
17% |
9.8% |
SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Dept. of Labor, The Editor's Desk, Employment Situation of Veterans- 2011 on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/ted/2012/ted_20120323.htm
Do Unemployed Americans Deserve Suspension of Most Immigration?
The Americans represented in the above statistics are actively searching for a job and cannot find even a part-time job.
Those unemployed Americans in that table above primarily are looking for jobs in the same non-agricultural occupations where illegal foreign workers are currently employed – manufacturing, service, construction.
Additionally, most of the hundreds of thousands of immigrants entering the country legally this year under extended-family categories and the visa lottery also will be competing for jobs with these unemployed Americans.
Isn’t the compassionate option to suspend most immigration (at the least,suspend chain-migration and visa lottery immigration) and stop making it more difficult for jobless Americans to find a job?