Study: Most new Texas jobs went to immigrants

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Study: Most new Texas jobs went to immigrants
byByron York Chief Political Correspondent
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ORLANDO --

With both jobs and immigration likely topics of sharp debate at tonight's Republican debate here in Florida, a new report suggests that newly-arrived immigrants have filled a majority of new jobs created in Texas, home to Republican frontrunner Gov. Rick Perry.

"Of jobs created in Texas since 2007, 81 percent were taken by newly arrived immigrant workers (legal and illegal)," says the report from the Center for Immigration Studies, a group that advocates reduced levels of both legal and illegal immigration.  The report estimates that about 40 percent of the new jobs were taken by illegal immigrants, while 40 percent were taken by legal immigrants.  The vast majority of both groups, legal and illegal, were not American citizens.

Native-born Americans filled just 20 percent of the new jobs in Texas, the report says, even though "the native born accounted for 69 percent of the growth in Texas' working-age population." "Thus, even though natives made up most of the growth in potential workers, most of the job growth went to immigrants," the report concludes.

The report is based on analysis of the Census Bureau's Current Population Survey.

The study notes that 56 percent of newly-arrived immigrants in Texas since 2007 have had a high-school degree or less.  But it also notes that "More than one out three…of newly arrived immigrants who took a job had at least some college."  It would be a mistake, the report concludes, "to assume that immigrants are only competing for jobs at the bottom end of the labor market."

Good luck, Perry. You were at the helm.

On The Job Training?

[FreeBorn]

This is a f*cking housefire.

At some point (long, long past) the federal government should have called out the response. They failed.

GO JAN BREWER !!!

She's our gal. the only thing standing between us and invasion. The CONSTANT AND UNRELENTING invasion.

Like fleas and lice.

America needs a remedy for these parasites.