Do refugees take jobs away from Americans?
For the most part, refugees take entry level jobs. Those refugees who are highly skilled and educated work hard for years to learn English and obtain U.S. transcripts of their credentials. The Urban Institute’s study states that, “Immigrants are already a critical component of the region’s lower-skilled labor force. The number of native-born workers without a high school degree shrank by almost 20 percent during the 1990s.
