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Now Is Not the Time to Increase Immigrant Labor
By Steven A. Camarota
National Reveiw Online, May 13, 2020
 
Excerpt: When the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the April employment figures last Friday, they showed the worst downturn in employment since the Great Depression. The end-line numbers of 14.7 percent unemployment and 23.1 million out of work have received a lot of attention. But the media has largely ignored the even-higher unemployment rate (16.5 percent) for immigrants and the even more dramatic proportional increase in their number unemployed. With millions of immigrants out of work, to say nothing of the unemployed native-born, it simply makes no sense to continue to bring in more foreign workers.
 
Report
The Employment Situation of Immigrants and Natives in April 2020
First full month of data after Covid-19 shutdown shows dramatic downturn in employment

By Steven A. Camarota, Jason Richwine, and Karen Zeigler
CIS Report, May 14, 2020

Excerpt: An analysis by the Center for Immigration Studies of data released last Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that both native-born Americans and immigrants (legal and illegal) suffered a massive increase in unemployment in April. With 18.2 million natives and 4.3 million immigrants unemployed, and millions more having given up even looking for work, it is now especially difficult to justify the continued entry of new immigrants on the grounds of any "labor shortage".

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