Can somebody provide me with a credible link where it states how many illegal immigrants are unemployed?
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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR\n\n\nAppropriate Procedures. Unemployment benefit payments to illegal aliens can, largely, be prevented by more careful verification before a first payment is made. Following is the recommended general procedure for implementing a verification system. Specific procedures must be developed jointly with the INS.\n\nWhen a claimant indicates that he or she is not a U.S. citizen, the claimant should be asked to produce his or her immigration document. If the claimant does not have a document, he or she should be advised that no determination of eligibility will be made until such time as the claimant returns to the local office with the required document\n\n        Immigrant Entry and Native Exit \n\nLooking first at all workers shows that between March 2000 and March 2005 only 9 percent of the net increase in jobs for adults (18 to 64) went to natives. This is striking because natives accounted for 61 percent of the net increase in the overall size of the 18 to 64 year old population. \n\n\nAs for the less-educated, between March of 2000 and 2005 the number of adult immigrants (legal and illegal) with only a high school degree or less in the labor force increased by 1.6 million. \n\nA national unemployment rate of 5 percent is irrelevant to the current debate over illegal immigration because illegals are overwhelmingly employed in only a few occupations, done mostly by workers with only a high school degree or less. In these high-illegal occupations, native unemployment averages 10 percent — twice the national average. Moreover, the unemployment rate does not consider the growing percentage of less-educated workers who are not even looking for work and have left the labor market altogether. It would be an oversimplification to assume that each job taken by an immigrant is a job lost by a native. What is clear is that the last five years have seen a record level of immigration. At the same time, the unemployment rate of less-educated natives has remained high and the share that have left the labor force altogether has grown significantly. Wage growth has also generally been weak. Thus it is very hard to see any evidence of a labor shortage that could justify allowing illegal aliens to stay or to admit more as guestworkers. Rather, the available evidence suggests that immigration may be adversely impacting less-educated natives. The statistical findings of this study are consistent with other research that has looked at the pattern of immigrant job gains and native loses in recent years\nhttp://www.cis.org/articles/2006/back206.html\n\n\n\nThe U.S. unemployment rate today is at the highest level in 20 years. \nMillions of hard-working Americans who are desperate for jobs can't find them, and both the short term and long term prospects do not bode well for many American workers.\n\nThe economic problems we face would be bad enough if all we had to contend with were a recovering economy, the continued threat of terrorism, and increased competition from foreign companies. \n\nBut a Congress that should be looking for ways to help unemployed Americans is busy opening the floodgates to millions of new immigrants who take jobs away from Americans - and also helping companies take the remaining jobs offshore.\n\nIt almost appears that our government is committed to making sure everybody in the world has a job - except Americans.\n\nHistorically, the U.S. admitted around 300,000 legal immigrants per year, but Congress changed our immigration policies back around 1965 and opened the floodgates. We now allow more than a MILLION legal immigrants into the country each year. A small number of these are refugees; some have special skills not easily found here. But an increasingly large percentage of those pouring through our borders are undereducated, unskilled workers who threaten the income of blue-collar workers, the backbone of America. Millions more come here each year ILLEGALLY, and the government does nothin
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Thanks for the links.I will be voting for those who are AGAINST illegal aliens. No amnesty or benefits should be given to those here illegally.
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Too many!! It is irrelevant to the issue now. We have too many illegal aliens in our country, now, today, 2006 and we need to put a stop to it and deport those here. There has to be a stopping point to the law being abused. That time has come.
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I don't know, but I do know there are approximately 40 million illegal aliens currently living in the United States, so be sure to add them to your list.....)(
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Here are related polls:\nhttp://www.pollingreport.com/immigration.htm
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics has data up to April 2006 and unemployment rate stands at 4.7%\n\nFrom the press release they issued:\nhttp://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm\n\n"The number of unemployed persons (7.1 million) was essentially unchanged in April, and the unemployment rate held at 4.7 percent.  The jobless rates\nfor the major worker groups--adult men (4.2 percent), adult women (4.3 percent), teenagers (14.6 percent), whites (4.1 percent), blacks (9.4 percent), and Hispanics (5.4 percent)--showed little or no change over the month.  The\nunemployment rate for Asians was 3.6 percent, not seasonally adjusted.
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I recently read this article in the Chicago Sun Times.  It is both enlightening and scary.  I am living overseas temporarily, but I often wonder what I'll return to when I do come home.  The US is not what it used to be.  Here's the article:\n\nNo easy answers on immigration conundrum \nApril 9, 2006 \nBY MARK STEYN SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST  \n \nHere's my immigration "compromise": We need to regularize the situation of the 298 million non-undocumented residents of the United States. Right now, we get a lousy deal compared with the 15 million fine upstanding members of the Undocumented American community. I think the 298 million of us in the overdocumented segment of the population should get the chance to be undocumented. You know when President Bush talks about all those undocumented people "living in the shadows"? Doesn't that sound kinda nice? Living in the shadows, no government agencies harassing you for taxes and numbers and paperwork. \nGo ahead, try it. In Michelle Malkin's book Invasion, she recounts the tale of two fellows who in August 2001 pulled into a 7-Eleven parking lot in Falls Church, Va., in search of fake ID from the illegal-alien assistance network that hangs around there. Luis Martinez-Flores, who'd been living here illegally since 1994, took them along to the local DMV, supplied them with a fake address and falsely certified they lived there. The very next day, the two guys returned with two pals of their own, and used their own brand-new state ID on which the ink was not yet dry to obtain in turn brand-new state ID for their buddies. A couple of weeks later, all four of them used their Virginia ID to board American Airlines Flight 77 at Dulles Airport and plowed it into the Pentagon. \nThink about that. From undocumented illegal alien in the 7-Eleven parking lot to lawful resident of the State of Virginia in just a couple of hours. Wow. Say what you like about Luis Martinez-Flores, but he runs one efficient operation. \nBy comparison, say you've got two kids under 5, and you'd like to bring over a nice English nanny to look after them. Name of Mary Poppins. Good references, impeccable character. If you apply now, there's a sporting chance the process may be completed before your children's children are in college. \nGiven that the new immigration "compromise" bill retrospectively approves all the millions of people who've been through the super-efficient Luis Martinez-Flores immigration system but without doing anything to improve the sclerotic U.S. government immigration system, maybe it would be better just to subcontract the entire operation to Senor Martinez-Flores and his colleagues. It would certainly be cheaper. The extensive Undocumented American support network manages to run it out of the back of the car from a parking lot without a lot of air-conditioned offices full of lifetime employees on government pensions, and given that the net result is exactly the same people who'd be living here anyway, why not go with the lowball bid? Legal immigrants to the United States can only envy the swift efficient service Messrs. Hani Hanjour and Khalid Almihdhar received outside that 7-Eleven. \nAll developed countries have immigration issues, but few conduct the entire debate as disingenuously as America does: The president himself has contributed a whole barrelful of weaselly platitudes, beginning with his line that "family values don't stop at the Rio Grande." True. They don't stop at the 49th parallel either. Or the Atlantic shore. Or the Pacific. So where do family values stop? At the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services. If you're an American and you marry a Canadian or Belgian or Fijian, the U.S. government can take years to process what's supposed to be a non-discretionary immigration application, in the course of which your spouse will be dependent on various transitional-status forms like
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The magic number is whatever our legal population is right now. How to stop it... Close the border immediately. Remove all illegals.\n\nPlain and simple.
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If this doesn't open your eyes... nothing will!\n \nFrom the L.A. Times\n  \n1. 40% of all workers in L.A. County ( L.A. County has 10.2 million people) are working for cash and not paying taxes. This was because they are predominantly illegal immigrants, working without a green card. \n  \n2. 95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens. \n  \n3. 75% of people on the most wanted list in Los Angeles are illegal aliens. \n  \n4. Over 2/3 of all births in Los Angeles County are to illegal alien \nMexicans on Medi-Cal, whose births were paid for by taxpayers. \n  \n5. Nearly 25% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally. \n  \n6. Over 300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles County are living in garages. \n  \n7. The FBI reports half of all gang members in Los Angeles are most likely illegal aliens from south of the border. \n  \n8. Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal. \n  \n9. 21 radio stations in L.A. are Spanish speaking. \n \n10. In L.A. County 5.1 million people speak English. \n3.9 million speak Spanish.\n(There are 10.2 million people in L.A. County). \n \n (All the above from the Los Angeles Times) \n \n \n Less than 2% of illegal aliens are picking our crops, \nbut 29% are on welfare. \n \nOver 70% of the United States' annual population growth\n (and over 90% of California , Florida , and New York )\nresults from immigration. \n \nThe cost of immigration to the American taxpayer in 1997 was, (after subtracting taxes immigrants pay), a NET $70 BILLION year, [Professor Donald Huddle, Rice University ]. The lifetime fiscal impact (taxes paid minus services used) for the average adult Mexican immigrant is a NEGATIVE number. \n \n29% of inmates in federal prisons are illegal aliens. \n  \nIf they can come to this country to raise Hell and demonstrate by the thousands, WHY can't they take charge over the corruption in their own country? \n \nWe are a bunch of fools for letting this continue. \n \n THE U.S. VS MEXICO\n \nOn February 15, 1998, the U.S. and Mexican soccer teams met at the Los Angeles Coliseum. The crowd was overwhelmingly pro-Mexican even though most lived \nin this country. They booed during the National Anthem and U.S. flags were held upside down. As the match progressed, supporters of the U.S. team were insulted, \npelted with projectiles, punched and spat upon. Beer and trash were thrown at the U.S. players before and after the match. The coach of the U.S. team, Steve Sampson said, "This was the most painful experience I have ever had in this profession." \n \nDid you know that immigrants from Mexico and other non-European countries can come to this country and get preferences in jobs, education, and government \ncontracts. It's called affirmative action or racial privilege. The Emperor of Japan or the President of Mexico could migrate here and immediately be eligible for \nspecial rights unavailable for Americans of European descent. \n \nCorporate America has signed on to the idea that minorities and third world immigrants should get special, privileged status. Some examples are Exxon, Texaco, Merrill Lynch, Boeing, Paine Weber, Starbucks and many more. \n \n DID YOU KNOW?\n \nDid you know that Mexico regularly intercedes on the side of the defense in criminal cases involving Mexican nationals? \n \nDid you know that Mexico has NEVER extradited a Mexican national accused of murder in the U.S. in spite of agreements to do so? \nAccording to the L.A. Times, Orange County , California is home to 275 gangs with 17,000 members, 98% of which are Mexican and Asian. How's your county doing? \n \nAccording to a New York Times article dated May 19, 1994, 20 years after the great influx of legal immigrants from Southeast Asia, 30% are still on welfare compared to 8% of households nationwide. A Wall Street Journal \neditorial dated December 5, 1994 quotes law enforcement officials as stating that Asian mobste
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Read the bills, please don't lie about them.\n\nNeither the House or Senate bills criminalize aid agencies (including churches) or medical facilities for helping illegals.  They are not required to ask or report.\n\nEMPLOYERS that hire EMPLOYEES (whites too!) are requires to check Social Security Numbers against a National database before they can employ someone.  Fail to do so and big fine/go to jail.\n\nThe truth will suffice, my Liberal friends.\n\nThank you for your support.
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Ha! That is so funny! What about the 7,649 that lost their jobs that day? If they really want jobs, why do they not go when they have one? I just don't get it I guess. IDK!
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There are Eleven Million ILLEGAL immigrants in the USA -\nin addition there are Millions of Legal Residents who are not Citizens - I do not know how many.\nAlso, a lot of Immigrants are now Citizens.
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there are always people that are desperate and need a job, illegal or not. there is a lot of extremely poor people in the united states.
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Try the Bureau of Labor Statistics :)
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The INS estimates 7 million.  But there's no way to acheive accuracy.  It's not like these populations would want to be counted.\n\n\n\nWASHINGTON (CNN) -- More than a million illegal immigrants have slipped into the United States in the past few years, raising the total in the country to 7 million, the Immigration and Naturalization Service said Friday.
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well here i have two cool websites for u the first shows the opinions which Alan Greenspan has about illegal immigrants read the sixth review which talks about the contributions of immigrants . and the second talk about the trues and lies about undocumented workers .\nhttp://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_14/c3675078.htm\nFederal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has spoken repeatedly about the contributions of both skilled and unskilled immigrants. He has advised Congress to ''open up our immigration rolls significantly''\nhttp://www.durrani.com/newsite/news_items/nactive_disp.asp?ID=1306
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In California, the overflow of foreign-born illegal residents has given this state the most crowded cities in the country. Poverty increased more in California than anywhere else in the nation over the past decade, particularly in areas of the state with large illegal alien populations. The influx of low skilled illegal workers may well have already vastly exceeded the demand for low-skill labor, and many economists and analysts not enamored of free-market theory argue it has caused lower average incomes overall and increases in unemployment. \nI'm not sure of the number they place on how many illegals are here its been estimated at about 12 million.\nBut no one knows their true number ,it may be higher or lower.