Reuters: Obama Administration Won’t Tighten Up on Illegal Immigrants in the Job Market Because Majority of Hispanics Vote Democrat

by Jim Hoft

Reuters: Obama Administration Won’t Tighten Up on Illegal Immigrants in the Job Market Because Majority of Hispanics Vote Democrat: "

Over a million immigrants, many of them illegal, gained employment in the United States the last two years. But the Obama Administration won’t tighten up on illegal immigration because Hispanics are a key base for the Democratic Party.

Reuters reported:

Over the past two years, as U.S. unemployment remained near double-digit levels and the economy shed jobs in the wake of the financial crisis, over a million foreign-born arrivals to America found work, many illegally.

Those are among the findings of a review of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census Bureau data conducted exclusively for Reuters by researchers at the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston…

…With a national unemployment rate of 9.4 percent, domestic job creation is at the top of President Barack Obama’s agenda and such findings could add to calls to tighten up on illegal immigration. But much of it is Hispanic and the growing Latino vote is a key base for Obama’s Democratic Party.

…From 2008 to 2010, 1.1 million new migrants who have entered America since 2008 landed jobs, even as U.S. household employment declined by 6.26 million over that same period.

But in a sign of the times, the pace of job growth for new arrivals has also slowed, to an average of 550,000 a year from 2008 to 2010 from over 750,000 a year from 2000 to 2008.

This is allowed by the Obama Administration despite the fact that the unemployment rate is near “Depression scale” levels for Americans without a high school diploma.

But the demographic profile of the immigrants who are still landing jobs is slanted to the young, uneducated, unskilled or semi-skilled. Accommodations and food services, for example, was a sector that employed over 144,000 new arrivals — the biggest group of employed new immigrants. These would be jobs such as hotel maids and dishwashers.

And 42 percent of the 1.1 million were under 30.

The unemployment rate for all Americans without a high school diploma in this age group is about 27 percent to 29 percent — a level that Sum says is “Depression scale.”

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