The US job market is booming, but only if you're here illegally

Ever since Americans began to wake up to the reality of our country’s illegal immigration problem, politicians, activists, and 24-hour news commentators have tried to placate the masses with slogans like “Immigration makes us stronger” and “Illegal immigration is a victimless crime.” While these Orwellian messages may have worked in the past, they fail today as people compare them to their everyday experiences and see the culture, opportunity, and security of a nation slipping away from them.

If the last three years have proven anything, it is that uncontrolled mass immigration does not make us stronger and is certainly not a victimless crime. Despite a media reorientation of the crisis, millions of American citizens and legal residents have lost their jobs, their property, their security, and even their lives because of our ruling class’s agenda to import the global problem of poverty into the United States.

While stories of outrageous criminal activity by illegal immigrants dominate alternative media headlines, much less attention is paid to the impact on Americans' job prospects caused by the addition of an estimated 10 million foreigners to the population in just a few years.

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The problem was recently highlighted by a report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that showed that native-born Americans lost more than 1.3 million jobs in the past 12 months, while foreign-born workers gained more than 1.2 million jobs.

Immigrants line up at a remote U.S. Border Patrol processing center after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border on December 7, 2023, in Lukeville, Arizona. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

These numbers come as the Biden administration boasts of generally positive job growth while ignoring the glaring distinction in the jobs report. No alarm bells have been sounded, no member of the administration has committed to fixing it. The data confirm what many suspected: The White House and many of our other elected leaders are prioritizing the interests of illegal immigrants over American citizens.

You don’t need a PhD in economics to understand how illegal immigration hurts American workers. When the labor pool is small, employers have to compete for workers, and wages go up. When the labor pool is flooded with cheap foreign labor, labor costs go down, and employers can pay their employees less. Unscrupulous employers are also more likely to hire and exploit illegal workers.

This isn’t just a matter of politicians turning a blind eye to the problem; they are actively taking steps to make it worse in the name of a potential new voting bloc. New York’s Democratic governor, Kathy Hochul, announced earlier this year that her state would allow illegal immigrants to get government jobs, becoming the first in the country to do so.

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To make this easier, Hochul has relaxed the requirements that job seekers must meet to qualify for these jobs, including English language proficiency and a high school diploma. A similar initiative is underway in Denver, where government jobs are being eliminated for Americans as the city seeks to hire illegal immigrants in clear violation of federal law.

These policies also result in huge amounts of money leaving the country. A 2019 study found that legal and illegal aliens send an average of $150 billion a year back to their home countries, tax-free. This is a major economic driver of illegal immigration, since American wages are much higher in these aliens’ home countries than in the United States.

The real goal of anti-border politicians pushing for work for illegal immigrants is amnesty. By allowing illegal immigrants to take jobs in the United States, they are ultimately paving the way for legalization, even if their asylum claims are rejected.

These leaders argue that it would be cruel to deport foreigners who have worked in the United States and become part of their communities. Nowhere in this calculation is the impact on American citizens taken into account as more and more competitors for jobs arrive from across the border.

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You don’t need a PhD in economics to understand how illegal immigration hurts American workers. When the labor pool is small, employers have to compete for workers, and wages go up. When the labor pool is flooded with cheap foreign labor, labor costs go down, and employers can pay their employees less. Unscrupulous employers are also more likely to hire and exploit illegal workers.

The U.S. economy has been devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic, with many small business owners closing their doors and millions of employees left jobless. As our country struggles to regain lost prosperity, the last thing we need is a steady stream of cheap foreign labor creating more competition for jobs, driving down wages, and sending U.S. currency overseas.

This may serve the interests of big business and Wall Street, but it is poison for American families. Until elected leaders begin to put the interests of our citizens first, we will continue to witness the slow, steady decline of America.