Here's a revelation about the real war on women. The latest employment data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (see chart below) reports that since the recession hit in December of 2007, foreign workers netted 100% of all employment gains among women workers. In fact the number of American-born women with a job declined.
Between December 2007 and today the number of employed foreign-born women grew by almost a million from 9.041 million to 10.028 million. During the same period American-born women with a job fell by 64K from 59.322 million to 59.258 million, at the same time the total number of American-born women grew by 600K+.
The influx of immigrants to America has been dramatic. According to data supplied by the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration And The National Interest in 1970, less than 1 in 21 residents were foreign-born; today it is almost 1 in 7. And, if current federal law remains unchanged, the U.S. will issue more green cards to new permanent immigrants over the next decade than the combined populations of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina creating new records in share of total employed represented by foreign-born workers. And that doesn't count illegal aliens.
The overwhelming majority of immigration to the United States is the result of our visa policies. Each year, millions of visas are issued to temporary workers, foreign students, refugees, asylees, and permanent immigrants for admission into the United States. The lion’s share of these visas are for lesser-skilled and lower-paid workers and their dependents who, because they are here on work-authorized visas, are added directly to the same labor pool occupied by current unemployed jobseekers. Expressly because they are admitted into the U.S. on legal immigrant visas, most will be able to draw a wide range of taxpayer-funded benefits, and corporations will be allowed to directly substitute these workers for Americans. Improved border security would have no effect on the continued arrival of these new foreign workers, refugees, and permanent immigrants—because they are all invited here by the federal government.
For those who care about low and middle income jobs, understand that those are the positions most likely to face increased competition because of the immigrant surge. This job competition may be the reason why per the immigration sub-comittee report, polling from Gallup and Fox report that Americans want Congress to reduce, not increase, immigration rates by a 2:1 margin. Reuters did a similar poll and reducing immigration won by nearly a 3:1 margin.
