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National Data | In Time For Labor Day, Immigrant Displacement of American Workers Hits Obama-Era Record; New Illegal Surge?

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Edwin S. Rubenstein

Friday’s August job report was greeted with a collective yawn by the Main Stream Media—which as usual paid no attention to immigrant displacement of American workers, which has reached an Obama-Era high, or to mounting evidence that illegal immigration is surging.
Who cares that businesses added 151,000 jobs, far below the 275,000 added in July, and below what is required to bring the unemployment down. Not to worry: this mediocre job growth reduces the prospect of a Fed interest rate hike.
Wages grew by an anemic 0.1%, well below the growth that was common at this point in prior recoveries? Not to worry: this reduces the prospect of inflation – another positive keeping the Fed at bay.
The Labor force Participation Rate [LPR] remains at a historically low 62.8%? Not to worry: a low LPR means a lot of people are still on the bench and could come into the labor market. These poor folks are a useful dampener against wage and price inflation.
“The new August jobs report is a prime example of data that affirms the status quo. And that’s not such a bad thing,” writes Neil Irwin in the New York Times, illustrating it with the chart on the right.[ This Status Quo Jobs Report Shows the Economy Isn’t Overheating, September 2, 2016]
Not such a bad thing? Maybe for investors. Not for native-born American workers. Unfortunately, neither Mr. Irwin not his MSM counterparts bother with the table in the BLS report where monthly data on the nativity of workers is published. We do.
In August

• Total Household Survey employment rose by 97,000, up by 0.06%
• Native-born American employment fell by 177,000, off by 0.14%
• Foreign-born immigrant employment rose by 274,000, up by 1.06%

While Native-born workers have lost ground to their foreign-born competitors throughout the Obama years, the trend has accelerated significantly over the past few months. In fact, the displacement of natives by immigrants hit an Obama-era high in August. This is brought out in our New VDARE.com American Worker Displacement Index (NVDAWDI) graphic:

OBAMA'S LEGACY: IMMIGRANT VS. AMERICAN EMPLOYMENT GROWTH

January 2009 though August 2016

(Monthly employment index: Jan. 2009=100)

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*VDARE.COM AMERICAN WORKER DISPLACEMENT INDEX

Source: BLS Household Employment Survey; VDARE.com

Native-born American employment growth is represented by the black line, immigrant employment growth is in pink, and NVAWDI—the ratio of immigrant to native-born job growth—is in yellow. The index starts at 100.0 in January 2009 for both immigrants and native-born Americans, and tracks their employment growth since then.
From January 2009 through August 2016:

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• Immigrant employment rose by 4.455 million, or by 20.6%. The immigrant employment index rose from 100.0 to 120.6.
• Native-born American employment rose by 4.938 million, up by 4.1%. The native-born American employment index rose from 100.0 to 104.1.
• NVDAWDI (the ratio of immigrant to native-born employment growth indexes) rose from 100.0 to 115.8. (100X (120.6/104.1))

During the Obama years immigrant employment has risen 5.0-times faster than American employment – an increase of 20.6% versus one of 4.1%. In many unskilled occupations the job growth gap is far larger, owing to the disproportionate number of foreign-born workers.
The foreign-born share of total U.S. employment has risen steadily, albeit erratically, throughout the Obama years:

IMMIGRANT SHARE OF U.S. EMPLOYMENT

January 2009 through August 2016

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Source: BLS Household Employment Survey; VDARE.com

In February 2009, President Obama’s first full month in office, 14.972% of all persons working in the U.S. were foreign-born. The foreign-born share in August 2016 was 17.216%, the highest among the 92 months of Mr. Obama’s administration. The prior record, 17.077%, was set in March of this year.
Six of the 10 worst months for native-born workers (measured by the share of jobs held by immigrants) have occurred in 2016.
August’s immigrant employment share was 2.24 percentage points above the level recorded in February 2009, Barack Obama’s first full month in office. With total employment now at 151.6 million, this implies that Obama-era immigration may have pushed as many as 3.63 million native-born Americans onto the unemployment rolls since then.
A detailed snapshot of American worker displacement over the past year is seen in the Employment Status of the Civilian Population by nativity table published in the monthly BLS Report. Source: BLS, The Employment Situation – August 2016, Table A-7, September 2, 2016. PDF
From August 2015 to August 2016:

• Foreign-born employment rose by 1.220 million, up 4.9%, while native-born American employment rose 1.356 million, up by 1.1%. Immigrant employment grew more than 4-times faster than native-born employment.
• The foreign-born labor force rose by 4.9%, the native-born labor force rose by 0.9%. Advantage immigrants.
• The unemployment rate dropped slightly for native-born workers and did not change for immigrants. At 4.4%, however, the immigrant unemployment rate is significantly below that of native-born Americans (5.1 %.)

(And remember: this government data understates the true displacement impact of immigration, because it doesn’t count the post-1965 wave’s U.S.-born children, now a significant factor).
In other news: once again the foreign-born population seems to growing like gang-busters. The table shows a 1.478 million jump in working age immigrants since last August. That is larger than the commonly cited figure of 1 million for annual net legal immigration of all ages. That is also larger than the 1.280 million rise in the corresponding native-born population over that period.
Over the past 12 months the working-age immigrant population grew 6.2 times faster than the corresponding population of native-born Americans.
Why the foreign-born surge? Could the prospect of a wall be more frightening than the specter of deportation?
Edwin S. Rubenstein (email him) is President of ESR Research Economic Consultants.

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Do You Want to Join the Club?

 by Skip Miller Estimated reading time: 4 minutes

There are groups or clubs set up for just about everything in life. All have leaders, and many people seek those positions. But which position should we strive for?

Were you in a club when you were a kid? Not a Boys Club, Girl Scouts or any other organized activity, but a neighborhood club with your friends on the block? I was in at least two, maybe three, before I turned 12 years old.
A neighborhood boy would say, “Hey, we ought to have a club!” And others would chime in with comments like, “That’s neat!” (It was a time before the word “cool” was used in our area.) The boy who originally had the idea would say, almost offhandedly, “I’ll be first president.”

And then most of the other boys would say, “Dibs on second president!” Someone else announced, “I’ll be vice president.” And then we would argue over rank. You see, we didn’t understand that the vice president was the second president. We thought he was the third president or the third person in charge.

In one of these clubs, we had a girl, and she said she would be secretary. Nobody argued about being the secretary. We thought secretaries were always girls. The truth was that the girls were the only ones who could write. We boys were learning writing, but we didn’t feel (any of us) that we could compete with her in that area.

Pride and maturity

Every person wants to be able to do something well. It doesn’t matter what it is. Sometimes it doesn’t even matter if anyone else knows about it, but to have a properly integrated personality, every human being has to feel good within him or herself about doing something well. However, this drive is too easily subverted.
For me, pride was and still is the most natural inclination of human nature.

But we are Christians. And to be a true Christian, a real Christian, we must be mature. Ephesians 4:14 and 15 indicate that our thinking cannot remain as it was when we were “kids.” Yes, we can and should be childlike in humility (Matthew 18:3), but not childish in our assessment of the world, as Paul clearly explained.

This Christian maturity is difficult and nearly impossible in the world that you and I presently inhabit. The world says: You can get away with being stupid as long as you are aggressive; you can remain unfeeling as long as you are fast; and you can roll right over others as long as you always see yourself as first president.

We need God

This has been the way of the universe since Lucifer went bad and stated in Isaiah 14:14, “I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.”

We know who “the Most High” is, and we know that Jesus said, “No servant can serve two masters” (Luke 16:13). Christ knew what Lucifer wanted, and the master position could never ever be his.
Hopefully, we are not quite as proud as Lucifer is. But as adults, we are still tempted to think of ourselves too highly. After all, haven’t we at least achieved some things on our own? Interestingly, no! James 1:17 states, “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights” and Ecclesiastes 3:13 concludes with a similar thought, “It is the gift of God.”

And what do we really know that we have not been taught by others? Not much.

There is a perspective that Jesus shared with His disciples toward the end of His life on earth. He knew He was leaving for a while to be with God, and He wanted the disciples to understand His “club.” Consider what He taught in two important passages:

Matthew 23:8-12: “But you, do not be called ‘Rabbi’; for One is your Teacher, the Christ, and you are all brethren. Do not call anyone on earth your father; for One is your Father, He who is in heaven. And do not be called teachers; for One is your Teacher, the Christ. But he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. And whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

In essence, Christ was saying, “You are all brothers.”
Matthew 20:25-28: “But Jesus called them to Himself and said, ‘You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those who are great exercise authority over them. Yet it shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among you, let him be your servant. And whoever desires to be first among you, let him be your slave—just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.’”

Here He was basically saying, “Learn to be a servant.”

Along with understanding these two passages, we also know that the office of First President is already taken. Let’s be supremely thankful for the opportunity to become a member of the club and a humble servant!

Read more about this subject in “Jesus Christ’s Leadership Approach.”

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Illegal Aliens Received $750 Million in Obamacare Subsidies

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A new Senate report found that around 500,000 illegal aliens received up to $750 million in Obamacare subsides as of June 2015 despite the law specifically excluding them from the subsidies.
The report was compiled by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and was based on a review launched by the committee Chairman, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.). The report said that, “the administration awarded approximately $750 million in tax credits on behalf of individuals who were later determined to be ineligible because they failed to verify their citizenship, status as a national, or legal presence.”
According to The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services spokesman, Aaron Albright, “lack of verification does not mean an individual is ineligible for financial assistance, but only that a Marketplace did not receive sufficient information to verify eligibility in the time period outlined in the law.”
The federal government still grants the subsidies on a “temporary basis” to those who cannot verify their citizenship in the time period allowed. Their credits are still paid in advance to the insurers. If the recipient is still unable to verify their immigration status, then funding and coverage is suspended and the IRS is supposed to receive overpayments back from the individuals that were wrongly covered.
The report criticized this “pay and chase” method and predicted that the IRS would be “unable to fully recoup the funds.”
Read more on this story at FoxNews.com.

Rewards for Illegal Aliens

An interesting article from http://www.vdare.com about Governor Christie. This follows this post about Mexico and heroin. This follows this post about Pope Francis and immigration. Remember, “Amnesty” means ANY non-enforcement of existing immigration laws! This follows this comment and this post about how to Report Illegal Immigrants! Also, you can read two very interesting books HERE.
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Don’t Let Chis Christie’s Tough Guy Act Fool You—He’s Terrible On Immigration And Protecting American Workers

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See Also Chris Christie Won’t Block Obama’s Bridge To Amnesty  by Ann Coulter
His girth aside, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has rarely registered a blip on the 2016 campaign’s radar. The Real Clear Politics poll average currently finds him in 6th place with 3.5%. Unlike in the cases of Walker, Bush, Fiorina, Carson, Rubio, and Cruz, the Republican Establishment and the Main Stream Media has never pretended he was surging and about to take Trump out. In fact, he’s never broken 5% in the polls. Despite this, George Will (or his intern) recently suggested that Christie may very well be at “the center of the stage at the Cleveland convention.” [Keep an eye on Chris Christie, Washington Post, January 15, 2016]. Unlikely—but Christie could impact the race.
With the Trump-Cruz truce over, the Establishment now hopes for a war of mutual destruction. As Christie has been such a non-entity throughout the election, he’s remained relatively unscathed. With Kasich and Bush all but finished, Christie and Rubio are fighting for the scraps.
As I and others at VDARE.com have emphasized over and over again, Trump’s base is not ultraconservative Tea Partiers who hate the GOP Establishment for not cutting Medicare spending. Trump does well amongst virtually all Republican demographics but, as Josh Kraushaar has noted, he is strongest among the “more moderate, more secular, more blue-collar” voters [The Crackup of the Republican Establishment, National Journal, October 19, 2015] Cruz, in contrast, depends heavily from conservative and evangelical voters.
This is not to say that Trump and Cruz are not also competing for many of the same voters. While Cruz is running a traditional Tea Party campaign, he has also echoed Trump’s positions on trade and immigration—going as far as to say he would appoint Trump to build the wall and negotiate trade deals. Cruz has managed to gain support of many hardline conservative immigration patriots like Tom Tancredo and Steve King who likely would be otherwise inclined to support Trump.
The most conservative popular talk radio hosts, Mark Levin, Rush Limbaugh, and Sean Hannity have been very favorable to both Trump and Cruz—though Limbaugh and Levin have now all but endorsed Cruz. Yet even if Limbaugh and Co. completely turned on Trump and their listeners followed, Trump has a comfortable enough lead right now that he could probably do without them.
Unless a candidate peels off Trump’s working class base he’ll easily win the GOP nomination. Rick Santorum, who is running on an immigration patriot campaign and wrote a book called Blue Collar Conservatives, never even made it to the main debate stage. Scott Walker, who also flirted with immigration patriotism and governs a heavily working class Midwestern state dropped out. John Kasich represents Ohio, the key state for these voters, but his campaign appeals to liberal media elites and big money donors rather than his constituents.
Chris Christie is the only remaining candidate with a potential to draw off these voters. George Will gushes that “Christie could be an alternative alpha persona, but without the ignorance.” Christie’s shtick as a fat, no-nonsense guy from New Jersey who loves Bruce Springsteen ostensibly appeals to working class whites. As Sean Trende has written:

Christie is probably the only other candidate running in Trump’s “lane.” That is to say, while Ted Cruz and Paul could be seen as running in the “Tea Party” lane, and Carson and Huckabee are in the “evangelical” lane, Christie is the only candidate who really has a foot in Trump’s “tough guy/strong leader” lane. He draws from a lot of the same demographics as Trump,
[Laying Odds on the GOP Presidential Race, Real Clear Politics, December 10, 2015]

But despite these similarities in style and appeal, it’s vital to realize that on the key issue of immigration, Christie and Trump could not be more different.
Recently Christie has tried to sound tough. During the debate last week, he said

Now, I for seven years was the U.S. Attorney of New Jersey. I worked hard with not only federal agents but with police officers and here’s the problem, sanctuary cities is part of the problem in this country. That’s where crime is happening in these cities where they don’t enforce the immigration laws.
[6th Republican debate transcript, January 14, 2016]

In the December National Security Debate, a Facebook questioner named Carla Hernandez asked: “If the Bible clearly states that we need to embrace those in need and not fear, how can we justify not accepting refugees?”
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer added, in the helpful MSM way:

Governor Christie, you say there should be a pause in allowing new refugees to come into the United States, including orphans under the age of five. What do you say to Carla?

But Chris Christie doubled down, saying

And it was widows and orphans, by the way, and we now know from watching the San Bernardino attack that women can commit heinous, heinous acts against humanity just the same as men can do it. And so I don’t back away from that position for a minute. When the FBI director tells me that he can vet those people, then we’ll consider it and not a moment before because your safety and security is what’s most important to me.
[5th Republican debate transcript, December 15, 2015]

Good red-meat stuff. But there is an unfortunate complication: Christie’s recent tough rhetoric on immigration completely contradicts his longstanding pro-Amnesty career.
Thus while Christie repeatedly harps back to his career as a prosecutor and speaks out against sanctuary cities, he actually tried to force cities to be sanctuaries against their will.
Christie’s New Jersey is in fact one of the most attractive states for illegal aliens. Several municipalities, including the state’s two biggest cities, Newark and Jersey City, and also its capital, Trenton, have sanctuary policies.
The 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Control Act both outlaws sanctuary cities and enables for states and localities to enter into 287(g) agreements to cooperate with federal immigration authorities. But Christie has never done anything to combat the Sanctuary Cities.
Worse, in 2007 Don Cresitello, the (Democratic) Mayor of Morristown NJ, appealed to then-US Attorney Chris Christie for the town to enter into a 287(g) program. Morristown had been overrun with illegal aliens including gang members. One of these illegal aliens killed a ten year-old boy after being twice arrested for crimes involving knives and released without being reported to immigration authorities.
Far from taking the hardcore Joe Arpaio stance, Cresitello told NJ Ledger columnist Paul Mulshine that “We’re not going to go after jay walkers”—but that he wanted to be able to deal with the MS 13-led drug and prostitution rings.
Christie accused Cresitello of “”hyperbole and grandstanding and demagoguery” [Morristown’s mayor was right on immigration, August 14, 2007] To this day, Christie still refers to him as a “demagogue” on immigration.
In 2008, then-prosecutor Christie told a church group

Being in this country without proper documentation is not a crime…The whole phrase of “illegal immigrant” connotes that the person, by just being here, is committing a crime…Don’t let people make you believe that that’s a crime that the U.S. Attorney’s Office should be doing something about. It is not.
[Christie at church forum: Illegal immigrants aren’t criminals, Julie O’Connor, Star-Ledger, April 28, 2010]

While Christie is technically correct that “unlawful presence” is a civil rather than criminal offense, deportation is a civil remedy (as opposed to a criminal remedy like imprisonment). The issue with “unlawful presence” is not that it is a serious crime, but that every second an illegal alien is in the country, he is breaking the law. Moreover, unlawful entry (i.e jumping the border rather than overstaying a visa) is a crime, and in order to function in society most illegal aliens commit a host of other crimes like Social Security and document fraud. [Is Illegal Immigration a Crime?, by Brett Snider, Findlaw, July 9, 2014]
Christie opposed Arizona’s SB 1070, saying: “This is a federal problem, it’s gotta have a federal fix. I’m not really comfortable with state law enforcement having a big role.” [Gov. Chris Christie calls for Republican Party rebranding, Maggie Haberman and Ben Smith, Politico, June 30, 2010]
Yet Christie was quite prepared to addressing illegal immigration on the state level when it came to granting in state tuition for illegal aliens. He surrounded himself with illegal aliens, Democratic politicians, and Hispanic ethnic lobbyists from the Latino Leadership Alliance when he signed the NJ Dream Act. He called opponents of the act “cold hearted” and described the illegal alien DREAMer job thieves as “an inspiration.” [Chris Christie trumpets signing of Dream Act in Union City, Jeena Portnoy, Star-Ledger, January 7, 2014]
Christie portrays himself as a no-nonsense straight talker. His campaign slogan is “Telling it like it is.” In 2010, Christie told ABC News he supported “a commonsense path to citizenship for people.” [Christie: Take my bipartisan example to pass immigration reform, Jordy Yager, The Hill, July 25, 2010]
Yet on the biggest immigration issue that faced our country over the last few years: the Gang of 8 Amnesty, he refused to say whether he supported the bill—or a path to citizenship. When Chris Wallace asked him “Do you still favor comprehensive immigration reform, including a path to citizenship?” Christie responded” “What I favor is fixing a broken system, and the fact is that everybody knows the system is broken. And what Congress needs to do is get to work, working with each other and the president to fix a broken system that’s not serving our economy well, not serving our country well.”[Chris Wallace Tests Chris Christie’s Conservative Credentials, Fox News, November 10, 2013] He repeated that same type of evasion when ABC News asked him [Christie Defers to ‘National Leaders’ to Devise ‘National Solution’ on Immigration, by Matt Vespa, CNS News, November 12, 2013]
And just like the rest of the GOP field, Chris Christie reversed his support for a path to citizenship when his poll numbers tanked. In May, he told Megyn Kelly that citizenship was “an extreme way to go.”

Kelly reminded Christie that about five years ago, he expressed support for giving some undocumented immigrants an opportunity to legalize.
Christie said: “I’ve learned over time about this issue and done a lot more work on it. Just immediately going to a path to citizenship, as Hillary Clinton is proposing to do, is just pandering politics.”
[Chris Christie says he opposes path to citizenship, questions Rubio’s readiness, Fox News Latino, May 19, 2015]

In other words, Christie had no substantive objection to a path to citizenship.
Later in July, Alisyn Camerota of CNN quoted Christie’s previous “commonsense path to citizenship” line and he responded

Well, first of all, yes, I agree with everything I said in there. We don’t have the resources from a law enforcement perspective to forcibly deport those folks, not in those numbers. We simply don’t.

Christie then demurred from giving citizenship but said he wanted to still give illegals work authorization, noting

I have to tell you the truth, I—we have a number of undocumented immigrants here in New Jersey, many whom I’ve met over the course of my governorship. None of them has ever come to here and said that, “Governor, the reason I came here was to vote.” They said they came here to work. So let’s deal with the work situation first, and then we’ll deal with everything else.
[Transcript: Chris Christie Shares Views on Justice System, Immigration, CNN, July 17, 2015]

In an interview yesterday, Christie tried to veer right on immigration again, telling Byron York he opposes raising legal immigration limits or legalizing any illegal aliens until “after we get under control both our border situation and our visa situation.” He also endorsed the term “attrition through enforcement” and said he supported E-verify to “encourage some people to leave on their own.” [A few questions for Chris Christie on immigration, Washington Examiner, January 18, 2016] This contradicts his emphatic statement from less than a year ago that “I’m not someone who believes that folks who have come here in that status [illegally] are going to engage in self-deportation.” [Gov. Chris Christie: Many Undocumented Workers Won’t ‘Self-Deport’, by Charlie Spiering, Breitbart.com, April 21, 2015] As I’ve shown above, this is just the latest of Christie’s many equivocations and flip flops on immigration.
Chris Christie has gotten away with these flip-flops, obfuscations, and just plain terrible statements because no-one has really paid attention to him.
Yet as George Will and other Establishment Poohbahs start talking him up, no amount of tough talk and Bruce Springsteen quotes will be able to hide Chris Christie’s scandalously anti-American worker immigration record.
Washington Watcher [email him] is an anonymous source Inside The Beltway.