The following report is by The New York Post:
Foreign-born workers made up 18.1% of the US labor force in 2022 — the most in 27 years of recordkeeping, according to a report from the Department of Labor.
Immigrants’ record share of the US labor force in 2022 was up from 2021, when people born outside the US made up 17.4% of the American workforce. It’s the highest level on record since 1996, according to the Department of Labor’s annual report on foreign-born workers released last week, which surveyed about 60,000 households monthly.
The number of foreign- and native-born people age 16 and up in the workforce totaled more than 164 million in 2022, according to the Thursday report. Of them, 29.8 million were immigrants, either working or actively seeking jobs — a 6.3% increase from the 1.8 million foreign-born workers in the US workforce in 2021.
“Hispanics continued to account for nearly one-half of the foreign-born labor force in 2022, and Asians accounted for one-quarter,” the report said, although it didn’t clarify foreign-born workers’ country of origin.
The documents also showed that foreign-born workers were responsible for the majority of growth — 6% — of America’s labor force last year, while native-born workers only accounted for 1%.
The report concluded that immigrants over age 16 are more likely to participate in the labor force than their US-born counterparts. In 2022, 65.9% of foreign-born workers were more likely to be employed or looking for jobs in the American labor market, compared to 61.5% of native workers.
When participation rates in the labor force were broken down by gender, immigrant men showed 77.4% participation — a dramatic difference from 66% of native men’s active involvement.
Women, however, showed similar participation rates whether foreign- or native-born. In 2022, 57.2% of immigrant women participated in the labor force, slightly more than the 55% of US-born women who participated.
When it came to earnings, foreign-born workers took home more on average in 2022. Full-time wage and salary workers born in the US brought home a median of $1,087 weekly, while immigrant weekly earnings averaged $945.
“In 2022, foreign-born workers continued to be more likely than native-born workers to be employed in service occupations, 21.6% versus 14.8%,” the report stated. Immigrants also held more jobs than their American counterparts in natural resource, construction and maintenance occupations (13.9% versus 7.9%) and production, transportation and material moving occupations (15.2% versus 12.1%).
Native-born workers, however, held more jobs in management, professional and related occupations (44.7% versus 35.7%) as well as sales and office occupations (20.5% versus 13.6%).
Unemployment rate across immigrants saw a sharp decline, from 5.6% in 2021 to 3.4% in 2022. The percentage has yet to dip below its 2019 rate of 3.1% — before COVID obliterated the job market.
The jobless rate across native workers, meanwhile, saw a smaller shrink — from 5.3% in 2021 to 3.7% in 2022. The figure “is little changed from its pre-pandemic level of 3.8%,” the report noted.
The Department of Labor accounted for immigrants who were legally admitted to the US as well as refugees, temporary students and workers and undocumented immigrants.
It was unclear where surveyed workers were born.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
[43] The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low. [44] He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail. Deuteronomy 28:43-44
As I have discussed before, this is a curse among others in that chapter that God levies on a corrupted nation that turns its back on the Lord’s word. The body of Christ and nations of saved gentiles inherit these same curses as well, as explained in Romans 11.
The liberal will retort this news by claiming that “America was founded on immigration;” but it was NOT founded on socialism and Marxism, shelling out subsidies, grants, scholarships, reparations, racial favoritism and cultural appropriation, and tax exemption – leading to them taking our jobs and land, and us paying higher taxes and prices on everything to care for them, while they then funnel that money back to their native lands.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Speaking of which, did you hear what Ron DeSantis did recently? He passed a bill that made it impossible for migrant workers to work on the farms and construction sites in Florida.
I saw a video of a grocery store in Florida and the shelves were bare. Why? Because of this whacky bill passed that restrain what the migrant workers have to do.
Here’s a scoop: Americans started doing the jobs that the migrant workers do and they quit after either day one or after lunchtime, no joke! Wow! Some tough strong Americans! Haha!
Did not hear about that. I’ll look into that.
Most of the Americans at my job quit. The turnover is so high. The foreign born ones have stuck around longer to be honest.
Same here in Canada. Many asylum seekers (sounds nicer), as they termed illegal immigrants coming in, also many Indian students on temp work permits. We’re paying higher taxes this year, higher GSTs and PSTs along with insanely high prices of goods. Though I think not as many illegals, yet, as in the States or Germany.
Not against paying taxes or tribute (Romans 13), but taxes here are being wickedly misused (what’s new). Obviously most go to the rulers’ deep pockets and the evil systems they’re establishing. Some of our taxes also serve to benefit the Aboriginal people here in Manitoba.
These freebies are destroying most of the Native population here. A lot are drunkards, drug addicts, homeless, gang members, thieves, fornicators (seen these up close, partied with them when I was lost), most pretty much got crime and sin covered. Been seeing needles, and crack/meth smoking in broad daylight on streets and bus shacks. I’m saying most because a few do work regular jobs.
The Vatican Roman Catholic church stirring up different nations with wars, poverty and unrest to send Muslims, fervent Catholics, illegal immigrants to other nations, blending and mixing up cultures and kindreds (races).
Psalm 7:8
The Lord shall judge the people: judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.
Psalm 58:11
So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.