For decades, researchers and immigration experts alike have warned lawmakers and administrations of the negative impact immigration, both legal and illegal, has on the African-American community.
Two studies from 2008 reviewed in great detail and length just how much black Americans have been kept down economically by a U.S. immigration system that admits more than 1.5 million legal and illegal immigrants a year, with no end in sight.
Cornell University’s Vernon Briggs Jr. wrote in his testimony before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights of how, in 2004, mass immigration to the U.S. had led to black Americans being replaced as the largest minority group in the country, being overtaken by Hispanic-Americans.
“Although black Americans were 13.5 percent of the nation’s native-born population, they were only 7.8 percent of the foreign-born population in 2000,” Briggs noted. “Hispanics, on the other hand, were only 8.5 percent of the native-born population while being 45.2 percent of the foreign-born population.”
In his 2008 testimony, Briggs stated that there was “little doubt that there is significant” impact on African-American workers who generally compete for the same U.S. jobs that illegal aliens and legal immigrants are often looking to get.
Briggs says that this immigration impact makes poor and working-class African-Americans the “major loser” in the workforce.
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There was another study done on who people would rather have as a neighbor, a black family, or a Hispanic Family, and why.
Guess who won?
Remarks were:
Work very hard
Both parents usually in the home
Very religious
Education is a priority for children
Keep yard nice
Parents take active part in caring for elderly and
young children
Very proud of heritage
Can you guess which race won ?
Funny reading this while watching a South Park episode from 2004 complaining about immigrants from the future coming back and stealing jobs for lower pay. 14 years later and nothing has really changed because a group of people are hoodwinked by a political party that says they are trying to help.
Think of all the the crappy jobs that need doing in the US.
Citizen of US don't want to do that work any more. They all think entitled to high paying clean jobs. Well someone has to do them. The alien population only ones willing to do it.
Just look at history of the local chicken plants. Went from white workers to African American and now to Latinos. One company started bringing Asians in to find workers. We throw out immigrant s, who left to do work?just saying.
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