President Biden is using mass immigration to boost the U.S. labor market. This is happening at a time when over 44 million working-age Americans aren’t in the labor force at all, not counting those who are unemployed.
The Center for Immigration Studies’ Steven Camarota and Karen Zeigler released labor data on August 21 that demonstrates that while Biden increases the number of legal and illegal immigrants in the country who are employed, working-age Americans—particularly those in the working class—are leaving the labor force at an alarming rate.
As of April, 44.3 million American-born men and women between the ages of 16 and 64 are not working at all. This is close to ten million over the figure recorded in 2000 when only 34.4 million people were not working.
However, that number does not account for the millions of Americans who are deemed to be jobless.
Since 1960, the number of American men who are working has been going down dramatically.
For instance, in 1960, 88.7% of men aged 16 to 64 who were born in the United States were employed. In 2000, it was down to 83.7%, and in April 2023, it was at 77.5 %. If the same number of these men worked today as they did in 1960, there would be 9.5 million more American-born men available for work.
The drop is even bigger for guys from the middle class.
From 1960 to 2023, the number of men with less than a bachelor’s degree who worked fell by almost 17 percentage points.
Write Camarota and Zeigler:
“This is crucial to the immigration issue since one of the justifications for accepting a large number of legal immigrants or even permitting illegal immigration is the belief that the aging U.S. population and the low unemployment rate indicate that there are insufficient employees available. But this doesn’t take into account the huge rise in the number of individuals of working age who aren’t in the labor force and don’t show up as jobless because they aren’t looking for work.”
As Breitbart News highlighted in May, the Biden administration has welcomed so many legal and unauthorized immigrants that the percentage of foreign employees holding jobs in the United States is currently higher than it has ever been.
With about 30 million foreign workers currently employed in the United States, their labor market share increased to more than 18% in 2022, the greatest level in nearly 30 years.
Camarota and Zeigler write, “Policymakers should think about getting the millions of people who aren’t working to get jobs instead of ignoring the issues and continuing to let in huge numbers of immigrants.”
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