From FactCheck.org LINK
The conventional wisdom, among many in this country, is that immigrants, legal and illegal, displace U.S. citizens from their jobs, thus increasing unemployment among legal residents.
However, there is a growing body of evidence that immigrants actually grow the economy, expand demand for goods and services and, therefore create new jobs.
Here's one piece of that information, more at the LINK
Economic Report of the President, Feb. 2005: The foreign-born are associated with much of the employment growth in recent years. Between 1996 and 2003, when total employment grew by 11 million, 58 percent of the net increase was among foreign-born workers…. [E]mployment of natives as operators, fabricators, and laborers fell by 1.4 million between 1996 and 2002, while employment in such occupations grew by 930,000 among the foreign-born. This should not be taken as evidence that the foreign-born displace native workers; rather, it reflects the fact that immigrants have made up all of the growth in the low-skilled workforce.
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