August Jobs: Immigrant Displacement Of American Workers Off The charts

Immigrant displacement of American workers has reached an all-time high—right as Congress returns from its August recess and, incredibly, is looking at passing some version of the Eight Gangsters’ Amnesty/ Immigration Surge bill.

Employers added 169,000 jobs in August, slightly below expectations. The unemployment rate fell to 7.3%, mainly because people dropped out of the labor force and were no longer counted as unemployed. Labor force participation—the share of the working-age population that is either working or looking for work—has been dropping since the economy collapsed in late 2008, but is now at its lowest level since 1978.

...Total employment fell by 115,000 according to the Household Survey. Our analysis of BLS data finds native-born workers suffered more than 100% of the loss, while foreign-born enjoyed a big job gain.

In August:

• Total employment fell by 115,000, or by -0.08%
• Native-born employment fell by 338,000, or by -0.28%
• Foreign-born employment rose by 223,000, or by +0.95%

...this August seems to be one for the record books. The immigrant share of U.S. employment—16.49%—was a new high for any August during the Obama years...

From August 2009 to August 2013 the immigrant share of total employment rose by 1 percentage point—from 15.49% to 16.49%. Had the immigrant share remained at its August 2009 level, 1.44 million more native-born Americans would have been employed this August, and the native-born unemployment rate would have been 6.4% instead of the 7.5% reported by BLS.

The displacement of native-born Americans by immigrants reached an Obama-era peak in August...

While many Americans have lost jobs to competing immigrants, all American workers have lost at least some income. By increasing the supply of labor, immigration over a recent twenty-year period reduced average income of native-born American males by $1,700, or 4%, according to Professor George Borjas...

This is the economic environment into which the (bipartisan) Gang of Eight want to amnesty an unknown number of illegal aliens—and double or triple legal immigration.