Originally posted by: David Miller
  Once again, Lewis has been found to be lying -- Most Employment Growth Since Pandemic Has Gone to Immigrants - The government’s household survey shows that there were only 971,000 more U.S.-born Americans employed in May 2024 compared to May 2019 prior to the pandemic, while the number of employed immigrants has increased by 3.2 million. -- Three - fourths of employment growth has gone to immigrants (legal and illegal) - https://cis.org/Camarota/Most-Employment-Growth-Pandemic-Has-Gone-Immigrants
With the USA unemployment rate at 4%, I would venture to say that without some form of immigration, many jobs would not be filled, hurting companies' bottom line. Many of these jobs are jobs Americans don't want because they can make the same hourly wage or better from less labor-intensive jobs.Â
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I worked with a small business association and visited small businesses all over my state, of course, the farmers and ranchers all told me that only immigrants would do the work that they needed done. One business owner had a roofing company and as we chatted he told me how his roofing employees changed from the 1980's through the early 2000's. He used to hire American-born roofers and transitioned to only immigrant roofers as time went on. Americans didn't want the roofing job, they could become a manager at a retail store or work in an office for more money and a much more comfortable work environment.Â
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My son worked for a landscape company one summer while he was in high school in the 90's, he was the only American-born person on the crew, it just the way it is.Â
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It would be nice if Congress would take the challenge and put something together to address our entire immigration system, just building a wall is a 6th-grade solution to the problem.