Now in a recession, does an illegal immigration have a particularly negative impact on some Americans?
Yeah, I’ll say. Let’s take a fairly conservative view — which is officially, there are around 7 million illegal aliens who are holding jobs. Now the average illegal alien tends to have more than one job. So conservatively, just say 7 million U.S. jobs are right now being filled by illegal aliens. About a million of those are in agriculture. If those million illegal aliens went home, most of those jobs would be filled legally through the H2A program. Just bringing foreign workers. So let’s take a million off the table. …..But that leaves 6 million. So there are 6 million jobs in manufacturing, construction, and service that illegal aliens hold. Most of those jobs, not all of them, but most of those jobs are jobs that don’t require…..really even require a high school education. Those are lower scale, low educated jobs because that’s the kind of people that illegal aliens are. Guess which group of Americans has an incredibly high unemployment rate that’s more than doubled the rate in
