Speech #1140041877

What changed over the past several decades that eroded the American dream? Three decades ago. America gave amnesty to millions of illegal aliens. That amnesty beget millions and millions in more illegal aliens. This illegal alien tsunami has done more to take jobs from and suppress wages of struggling American families than anything else over the past three decades. The Pew Hispanic Center established in 2009 that American workers lost 7.8 million job opportunities to illegal aliens. A more recent FAIR study estimates Americans lost 8.5 million job opportunities to illegal aliens. Economic studies reveal that wage suppression caused by the surge in cheap. illegal alien labor costs American high school graduates an estimated $800 per year and Americas lowskilled labor an estimated $2.300 per year in income. But it is not just illegal alien labor that undermines American opportunity and the American Dream for American citizens. Americas generous legal immigration policy created a second tsunami of legal foreign labor that doubles the economic damage to struggling American families. Census Bureau. Homeland Security. and Labor Department data offers a startling" and sobering insight for Americans in the 1665 age bracket. While the American economy created 5.6 million net new jobs in the 1665 age bracket over the past 14 years. Americanborn citizens lost 127.000 net jobs. All net job gains and more went to illegal and legal immigrants. While Americanborn citizens lost 127.000 jobs. foreignborn persons gained 5.7 million jobs. Worse yet. when you factor in population growth. there were 17 million more Americans in the 1665 age bracket not working in 2014 than in 2000. Contrary to the propaganda of amnesty and open border proponents and their media allies. immigrants gained across the labor market in lower skilled jobs. such as maintenance. construction. and food service. and middle skilled jobs. like office support and healthcare support. and higher skilled jobs. including management. computers. and healthcare practitioners. The propaganda that immigrants only do jobs Americans wont do is not supported by fact. Immigrants gained jobs while Americans lost jobs in each of the following highpaying industries: architecture. engineering. transportation and material moving. office and administrative support. Further. Americanborn citizens of all major races lost ground.