Illegals More Likely to Hold Jobs Than Citizens

One of Pew Research Center’s latest reports reveals males who are in the country illegally are more likely to have jobs than males who are U.S. citizens or in the nation legally.

Pew senior demographer Jeffrey Passel presented the finding to Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee members, the Federation for American Immigration Reform reported. And according to the data, there were 8.1 million illegal aliens working in the country unlawfully in 2012, the latest year the figures were available.

Males age 16 or older are “considerably more likely to be in the workforce than U.S.-born men,” FAIR reported.

Specifically, Pew found 91 percent of illegal males age 16 year or higher were working, versus 79 percent of U.S. citizen males in that same age bracket, and 84 percent of male legal immigrants.

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