February Jobs—Second Disastrous Month for American Worker Displacement/Immigrant Workforce...

The Labor Department employment report released Friday reads like a Trump White House press release: payroll jobs up by 313,000, the biggest gain in 18 months; unemployment rate at 4.1%, a 17-year low, despite a big increase in the labor force—i.e., the number of people actually looking for jobs. The one negative: a weak 0.1% rise in wages—although even this arguably reduces the chance that the Federal Reserve will derail the economy with interest rate hikes.

But completely missing from public debate, as usual: the fact that that all job growth was all taken by immigrants—and the immigrant workforce population continues the incredible growth it suddenly began last month (perhaps accounting for the weak wage growth). What’s going on?...

In percentage terms, the immigrant working-age population grew 11-times faster than the corresponding native-born American population in February – 4.42% versus 0.41%. If 4.42% per annum growth becomes the norm, the number of immigrants working here will double in about 16 years.

The monthly job numbers also show native-born Americans being displaced by their foreign-born competitors....