Immigrants, many of whom are illegal, have benefited from the purported fantastic employment growth that Dems, and particularly the Biden White House, have praised. Men born in the United States who do not hold college degrees are having difficulty finding work in Biden’s economy.
These days, employers should pick the best qualified candidate, therefore, hiring legal immigrants is acceptable. There are a lot of legal immigrants who make major economic contributions. However, the New York Post calculated that up to half of the migrants taking millions of jobs are probably illegal immigrants, as 6 out of 10 of the three million more working migrants are non-citizens. These illegal immigrants are using government resources and seizing employment that could go to Americans, even though they have no right to be in the nation at all. Unfortunately, Dems and some GOPers are completely uninterested in solving the issue.
The New York Post said, “There are tremendous expenses connected with illegal immigration.” “People with that skill profile typically make modest incomes, pay relatively little taxes, and consume a great deal of means-tested benefits. The majority of illegal immigrants have low levels of education.” However, the site also stated that they steal lower-paying positions that belong to Americans.
“The long-term drop in US-born men’s labor force participation is one of the most significant social issues facing our nation… In the fourth quarter of 2019, the rate of labor force participation for males who were born in the United States but do not possess a bachelor’s degree, ranging from 18 to 64, was 76.3%. As of right now, it is still lower at 75.6%.
“And those are both much lower than the rates of 82.6% in 2000 and 80.6% in 2006.”
About 90% of these American males were employed in the 1960s, if you travel back a few decades.
Just to refresh your memory, the unemployment rate is determined solely by taking into account individuals who have been jobless for the four weeks prior to the estimate of the rate. In contrast, labor force participation comprises only those who are employed or seeking employment. This implies that the number of jobless American men is far higher.
This drop is significant since being unemployed has a long list of detrimental effects on people, their families, and society as a whole. “An increased likelihood of criminality, social isolation, and so-called “deaths of despair,” such as drug overdoses, drunkenness, and suicide, is associated with not working.”
The New York Post pointed out that assistance and disability programs, among other things, do have an impact on Americans’ attempts to enter the labor market. But the fact that all those new jobs are benefiting immigrants—many of whom are undocumented—rather than males who were born in the United States indicates that the Democrats’ open-border policies are beneficial to immigrants but detrimental to Americans in the United States. The Biden White House’s policies continue to weaken Americans and reward foreign lawbreakers.
Author: Scott Dowdy
