yea i'm not buying that bullshyt. no mexican has ever kept me from getting a job...if anything it's been the opposite.
and let's see these studies you talk about
Here is one good study:
"To find the specific effects of immigration on black low-wage workers, Professor Hanson
and his coauthors examined U.S. census data from 1960 to 2000 and found a strong
correlation between immigration, wages, employment rates, and incarceration rates for
blacks. He did not address the effects of illegal immigration separately. D
r. Hanson‘s
coauthored research suggested that a 10 percent immigrant-induced increase in the labor
supply is associated with a 4 percent decrease in black wages, a 3.5 percent decrease in the
black employment rate, and a 0.8 percent increase in the black incarceration rate.11 This
correlation held true in both national and state-level data, according to Hanson.
The same data source showed that the effect of immigration on white men also produced a 4.1 percent
decrease in wages, but had much less effect on employment and incarceration rates. Thus,
wages went down for the skill group generally, but black men lost proportionally more jobs
and disproportionally increased in incarceration rates."
Here is some context to WHERE blacks face competition with illegal immigrants and HOW blacks lose:
"Thus, it is not everywhere that there is likely to be significant competition between low
skilled black workers and illegal immigrant workers, but there are ample circumstances
where there is—such as the large metropolitan labor markets of
Los Angles, New York, San
Francisco, Chicago, Miami and Washington-Baltimore. Moreover,
some of the fastest
growing immigrant concentrations are now taking place in the urban and rural labor markets
of the states of the Southeast—such as Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia, which never
before were significant immigrant receiving states in previous eras of mass immigration.
Indeed, about 26 percent of the nation‘s foreign-born population are now found in the states
of the South—the highest percentage ever for this region. There is mounting evidence that
many of these new immigrants in this region are illegal immigrants.
Because most illegal immigrants overwhelmingly seek work in the low skilled labor market
and because the black American labor force is so disproportionately concentrated in this
same low wage sector, there is little doubt that there is significant overlap in competition for
jobs in this sector of the labor market. G
iven the inordinately high unemployment rates for
low skilled black workers (the highest for all racial and ethnic groups for whom data is
collected), it is obvious that the major looser in this competition are low skilled black
workers.
This is not surprising, since if employers have an opportunity to hire illegal
immigrant workers, they will always give them preference over legal workers of any race or"