This Issue: This week the Center for Immigration Studies held a panel discussion on a new report detailing EEOC complaints about employers who discriminate against American workers.

Employers taking advantage of the U.S. immigration system to displace American workers is something we talk a lot about, and it does receive some attention in the corporate media, even if to dismiss out-of-hand the notion that any displacement is occurring.

We also have brought attention to examples of outright discrimination against American workers, which is well-documented but almost entirely ignored, even by groups ostensibly dedicated to rooting out worker discrimination.

On Thursday, the Center for Immigration Studies held a panel discussion at the National Press Club in coordination with the release of a new report "examining real-world case studies in which the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has sued employers for systematically favoring low-skill immigrants over native workers."

On the panel was Jason Richwine, the report's author, Peter Kirsanow, partner at a law firm specializing in labor and employment law who is also a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and Kevin Lynn, executive director of Progressives for Immigration Reform.

Richwine highlighted that his report was qualitative research and that he "did not go beyond the facts as alleged in the lawsuits" brought by the EEOC. It is his contention that the pattern of accusations of employer discrimination "calls into question [claims] there are zero negative effects from immigration."

Kirsanow, who has testified several times before Congress, talked about the total lack of interest shown by the Congressional Black Caucus in credible reports forwarded to them by the Civil Rights Commission of discrimination against black Americans in favor of illegal immigrants. He found their silence on this issue "an abomination."

Lynn spoke out against discrimination in the tech industry, which is particularly pronounced against women in STEM fields and recent college graduates, who are increasingly being passed over by companies in favor of cheaper foreign labor.

CIS is bringing attention to a very real problem, and one that has existed for many years. Unfortunately, many in the media who cover immigration issues have shown little interest in looking at the existing evidence of discrimination against American workers in favor of foreign ones, but the evidence is clearly visible to those who do care to look.

Watch the full CIS panel here.

Eric Ruark, Director of Research