Corporate media outlets recently locked arms to dispel Donald Trump's assertion that illegal immigration hurts "Black jobs," yet experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation that the former president is right about the problem being all too real.
Trump said during a Q&A with the National Association of Black Journalists that "Coming from the border are millions and millions of people that happen to be taking black jobs," according to Politico, with the remarks igniting a bevy of critiques from corporate media outlets, with one going as far to say that "Black jobs" don't exist and others leaning on experts to characterize the assertion as "Not true." However, the reality is that immigration has a depressive effect on wages and employment, with experts pointing out how illegal immigration has disproportionately affected industries and localities where black Americans frequently work.
The factory saw its proportion of black workers go from 20% to 60%. "When we're talking about black jobs, we're talking about these situations here," Barnes said.
"We're talking about the meat packing jobs that are disappearing between the 90s and the early 2010s that went from majority black to majority Hispanic. That's what people need to talk about when they're talking about black jobs." Migrants walk on the US side of the border wall in Jacumba Hot Springs, California on June 5, 2024, after walking across from Mexico.
E.J. Antoni, a research fellow at the Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget at the Heritage Foundation, told the DCNF that since black workers are a large part of the low-skill labor force, the arrival of mostly low-skill immigrant workers means black Americans face pressure on their wages and employment.
Gordon Hanson, urban policy professor at Harvard University and co-author on a 2006 National Bureau of Economic Research study on immigration and black employment, told the DCNF that while immigration affects labor markets, we've learned more since 2006 on its effects to certain demographics and what industries and places in America are most vulnerable.
"Illegal immigration disproportionately affects black workers, including other minority workers, and we need to do everything to protect them from their jobs from being taken away," Trump spokesperson Karoline Leavitt told the DCNF, saying that around 1.1 million jobs went to foreign-born workers as native-born Americans saw a 943,000 job decrease over the past year, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
https://dailycaller.com/2024/08/05/donald-trump-black-jobs-illegal-immigration-experts/
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