BLACK AMERICAN WORKERS

Black American workers are the primary victims of US immigration policy, facing the most competition from immigrant labor. Why?

74% of illegal immigrants and 46% of legal immigrants have a high school education or less (Pew Hispanic Center), qualifying them MAINLY for the blue-collar jobs in construction, service, transportation and manufacturing sectors that have been the cornerstone of Black American employment.

We believe that all US citizens, regardless of race, are entitled to civil rights, but Black American workers should NOT have to compete for work against illegal aliens who broke the law to get here or with legal aliens who don’t care anything about them or Black Families.

HISPANIC AMERICAN WORKERS

20% of all US-native Hispanic American workers are unemployed today; the second highest percentage of unemployed American workers. Why?

A common misperception is that illegal immigrants work MOSTLY in agriculture, but government data proves that 95% of the illegal workers live amongst legal Hispanic American workers and compete with them for jobs in construction, service, manufacturing and transportation. This unfair competition for jobs has driven wages down and is the key reason why the Hispanic American community has the largest percentage of families living in poverty.

DISABLED AMERICAN WORKERS

Adults with physical handicaps are among the worst victims of the current US immigration policies and Americans4Work doesn’t support this cruel treatment of disabled Americans.

Experts agree that disabled workers, including Military Veterans, need routine jobs at retail clerk stations, parking attendant booths and other sedentary workplaces, but those jobs are disproportionately held by foreign workers today, creating a near zero demand for disabled workers as employees.

Americans4Work believes that it’s wrong to import 138,000 new legal immigrants each month and legalize 33M illegal immigrants when so many of our disabled Americans need work.

YOUNG AMERICAN WORKERS

About 1.5 million (53.6 %) of 20-25 year-old American college graduates are unemployed and underemployed today; the highest percentage in the last 11 years.

Economists have previously assumed the problem would go away as the economy improved, but a recent National Bureau of Economic Research paper confirmed that technology (robots, computers, etc.) has reduced the overall need for many college graduates, leading many of them to work in retail jobs.

Concurrently, the US President and Congress are now looking at ways to bring 1.1 million more college educated immigrants into the US each year, increasing the competition our kids have or will have for good work.