Todd Bensman of the Center for Immigration Studies discusses the costs of illegal immigration in “The Bottom Line,” as the issue takes center stage in Congressional budget battles.
Sounding the alarm on the issue, a new analysis finds that Native American men are fleeing the workforce in droves in a decades-long trend that coincides with increased immigration.
Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) launched the study This week shows the percentage of US-born men of working age (ages 16 to 64), which shows that the number of US-born men not participating in the labor force has increased rapidly since the 1960s and As of April, 22.1% of respondents were not working or looking for work, up from 11.3%. This year.
The percentage of U.S.-born working-age men who are no longer in the labor force has nearly doubled since 1960, a new study finds. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images/Getty Images)
“This is relevant to the immigration debate, because one of the arguments for admitting so many legal immigrants or tolerating illegal immigration is that workers That's because there isn't enough.” “But this ignores the significant increase in the number of working-age people who are not in the labor force.
“Furthermore, being out of the labor force is associated with serious social problems, including crime, overdose deaths, and welfare dependence,” the authors write. “Instead of letting in more immigrants than ever and ignoring the problem, policymakers should consider encouraging the work of millions of people on the sidelines of the economy.”
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According to the report, the total number of U.S.-born working-age men and women not in the labor force was 43 million as of April 2024, an increase of 8.5 million from 2000.
The number of U.S.-born working-age men not participating in the labor force increased by 13.2 million from 1960 to 2024, according to the data. During the same period, the number of working-age immigrant men participating in the labor force was 14.1 million.
Migrants join a caravan heading to the U.S. border in Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico, on October 31, 2023. (Isaac Guzman/AFP via Getty Images/Getty Images)
The trend of U.S.-born workers retiring and being replaced by foreign-born workers shows no signs of slowing down.
According to E. J. Antoni, an economist at the Heritage Foundation, data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that net U.S. employment growth over the past year has come almost entirely from workers born outside the United States.
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“There are now 1.1 million fewer mainland-born Americans employed than there were a year ago,” Antoni wrote in X.[A]The net job gains went to foreign-born workers, totaling just over 400,000 since November 2023. ”
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The United States has seen a rapid increase in immigration in recent years. a recent analysis Data from the Congressional Budget Office, reported by The New York Times, confirmed that the Biden administration is overseeing the highest net immigration numbers in U.S. history, with more than half of that coming from illegal immigrants.
FOX News' Gabriel Hayes contributed to this report.
