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More than ten million undocumented aliens have entered the United States illegally since president Joe Biden and his “border czar,” Kamala Harris, took office. Oh, and those are just the border-crossings we know about. There are millions more “got-aways” – and doubtless millions of additional undetected aliens.
We’ve seen the adverse impacts of this unprecedented influx in many facets of our national life… be it soaring violent crime, depleted public resources or eroded electoral integrity. But we’re also seeing an adverse impact in the American labor market, where foreign-born workers are continuing to crowd out native-born workers.
In fact, the Biden/Harris’ administration job claims – already withering under “further review” – look even worse when we assess the breakdown of native-born versus foreign-born workers.
According to Zero Hedge, America’s economy “has not created a single job for native-born workers since July 2018.”
Or, to put more accurately, any jobs for native-born workers it has created over that time period it has also shed – and then some. Meanwhile, a net total of more than 4.7 million jobs have been created for foreign-born workers over the same period.
Wait, though… 2018. That was during the second year of the administration of Donald Trump, right? Indeed, although this graph reveals the divergence in job growth between these two subsets of workers began right when Biden and Harris took office.
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Prior to Biden and Harris taking office, these two subsets tracked each other during both upticks and downturns – including the Covid-19 recession – during Republican and Democratic administrations. What changed when Biden and Harris were sworn in?
A total undoing of Trump’s border security policies, for starters…
Some have suggested the surge in employment for foreign-born workers is tied to legal immigration, something anyone who isn’t a raging xenophobe would argue is a good thing when properly targeted and engaged in moderation. However, as our friends at Zero Hedge pointed out, conservative estimates from labor market experts like Steve Englander have shredded that narrative.
According to an analysis prepared by Englander back in June, “half of non-farm payroll growth” for the first six months of the 2024 federal fiscal year (which began last October) came from “undocumented immigrants.”
“Undocumented workers have added 109,000 jobs per month to (non-farm payrolls),” Englander estimated.
And remember, thanks to the “preliminary benchmark adjustment” we reported on last month, the average monthly job gain last year was only 150,000 per month. So if Englander’s numbers are correct, two-thirds of the monthly job gains Harris and Biden are touting are coming from illegal aliens.
“While the quality of job gains in the past year has clearly been catastrophic – a necessary condition to give the impression that headline, or quantitative, job growth was strong – there was a very clear reason for that, and it goes back to what we have been pounding the table on in the past: The reason is the continued replacement of native-born workers with immigrants (some legal but mostly illegal),” Zero Hedge concluded. “It is anything but a theory: it is cold hard fact.”
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR …
Will Folks is the owner and founding editor of FITSNews. Prior to founding his own news outlet, he served as press secretary to the governor of South Carolina, bass guitarist in an alternative rock band and bouncer at a Columbia, S.C. dive bar. He lives in the Midlands region of the state with his wife and eight children.
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“ soaring violent crime, depleted public resources or eroded electoral integrity.”
Yeah, those are complete lies. Violent crime is down (unless you count mass shootings from MAGA supporters). Public resources are eroded in red states already from Republican policies, not illegal aliens. There is zero proof that illegal aliens affect our elections.
MAGA is so desperate that they are stuck with a decrepit old felon rapist and fraudster who is clearly a Russian asset (like this blog) that they are just throwing out lie after lie after lie. Voters aren’t buying any of it.
Hell, Dick Cheney is voting for Kamala. Fucking Dick Cheney ;-)
Using ZeroHedge.com, a well know Russian propaganda outlet for years, sure doesn’t help the impression that this is not a Tenet Media type operation.
DonOLD Trump hires tons foreign workers to run his gold clubs and resort. He hires foreign workers to be his “Wife”. Nearly every one of his kids are anchor babies. JD Vance is married to an Indian woman. His children are bi-racial.
If you’re going to use more Russian propaganda about the Big Replacement Theory. Make sure your elderly MAGA master isn’t guilty of helping make that racist fantasy true.
Let’s see how FitsNews stacks up against Tenet Media content:
“ analysis shows that right-wing stars like Tim Pool and Benny Johnson focused on topics like Elon Musk and supposed racism toward white people in hundreds of videos allegedly paid for by Russia.”
Welp, looks like FitsNews is another proud MAGA blog that spreads Russian propaganda. No doubts there.
Enough of the crab bucket mentality. Undocumented immigrants are just trying to survive. It’s the capitalists who are exploiting them for cheap labor.
You have nothing to lose but your chains.
Maybe if some South Carolinians wanted to work, illegal aliens would not be able to take jobs they were never working in the first place.
It’s always rerun season at fEaRnEwS.
You know that Will’s heart sunk when he found out the school shooter was a white boy from Georgia instead of an “illegal alien.” How many days of blahg posts would he have generated if that had been the case? Better luck next time, chief.
Lies.
Garbage. Sounds like some of that Russian money made it to Will. If noncitizens are working in this country legally on a Visa they were likely brought in by Republicans. If they are here illegally they should not be hired and if they are they were probably hired by Republicans, like Trump who used them in his hotels and casinos. Did you ever wonder why Republicans don’t want larger penalties and jail time for all the people who allegedly hire people here illegally. Because they are Republican donors.
I can guarantee you that the vast majority of businesses exploiting undocumented immigrant labor vote Republican.
They know the walls won’t stop anything, but the message will be loud and clear – work hard and work cheap or end up in a cage.
I haven’t seen a single prior comment that, accusing the article of propagating “lies” about the foreign illegal composition of the job numbers, actually cite a different article or source refuting the claims. It’s just the classic knee-jerk Marxist/Communist DNC tactic of screaming “Russia, Russia, Russia” or side -stepping. If FITS and ZeroHedge are wrong on these FACTUAL DATA stats, then cite a reputable source that disputes or debunks it…put up or shut up. But you can’t…BECAUSE THE DATA IS REAL. I myself have heard these core assertions- that the so-called jobs growth or recovery was comprised mostly of non-citizen illegal aliens – from multiple respected economic/industry forums occurring in the last 12+ months…and these were in closed-door sessions put on by the investment forecasting divisions of major banks – not pseudo experts or people looking for clicks or posts or followers on social media. They didn’t wax political about it or even criticize it…but they clearly pointed out that it existed.