Immigrants aren't stealing your jobs

Maria Enchautegui for the Urban Institute: A large and growing share of the low-skilled workforce are immigrants, many of whom are unauthorized. This often makes people think that immigrants are pushing U.S. citizens out of their jobs. To bring some evidence to this contentious issue, I set out to find what types of jobs low-skilled natives and immigrants hold. I found that, even within the narrowly defined group of workers with no high school diploma, immigrants and natives do different jobs …

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The top three occupations with the largest number of immigrants without high school diplomas are maids and house cleaners, cooks and agricultural workers.