OPINION:
When Vice President Kamala Harris trumpets the supposed job growth under her administration with President Biden, all is not as it seems.
“We have created over 800,000 new manufacturing jobs while I have been vice president,” she said in Tuesday night’s debate.
Last month, economists at the Atlanta Federal Reserve noticed illegal aliens have been enjoying job growth the native population hasn’t. Their analysis was based on official government statistics tracking “foreign-born workers.”
This refers to the cheap source of labor the moneyed class exploits to keep wages low. The Democratic Party is importing millions of these foreigners in the hopes they’ll become voters one day.
According to the Congressional Budget Office, the net influx of people who aren’t supposed to be here used to hover around 200,000 per year before Ms. Harris became border czar. The CBO projects the total number of immigrants who have entered the United States illegally since 2021 will reach 9.7 million by 2026, not counting the 2 million children who will have been born to noncitizens by then.
That figure also doesn’t include those who remain in the country under “asylum” status, which the Biden-Harris administration conveniently applies to anyone claiming to have crossed into the country to escape government persecution. This supposed oppression tends to be nothing more than finding life under a socialist regime inconvenient.
The Biden-Harris administration hands out smartphones to the huddled masses from Haiti, Mexico, Nicaragua and Venezuela so they can fly into the country using an app called CBP One. This app admits asylum-seekers under the pretense that they’re going to attend a legal status hearing a decade from now.
Meanwhile, they enjoy VIP treatment while U.S. citizens are groped, scanned and hassled whenever they board a commercial flight. According to documents uncovered by the House Homeland Security Committee, 95.8% of aliens who didn’t meet the loosened admission criteria were nonetheless allowed into the country with the CBP One app.
While the CBO believes the federal government profits from the labor of uninvited migrants, that’s not true at lower levels of government. The moment lawbreakers arrive, they reap benefits at the expense of the rest of society. Adding millions to Medicaid and providing K-12 education and medical care strains municipal and state budgets.
“Research has generally found that increases in immigration raise state and local governments’ costs more than their revenues, and CBO expects that finding to hold in the case of the current immigration surge,” the Fed economists explained.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in May that “the foreign born” accounted for 18.6% of the workforce last year. Based on the trend, 1 in 5 jobs will be held by new arrivals within the next few years.
That also means one-fifth of available jobs aren’t available for those who waited their turn to become naturalized citizens or were born in this country. That’s particularly devastating for the young people who need entry-level jobs to begin their journey into adulthood.
No wonder unemployment for Generation Z — those born between 1995 and 2012 — surged to 14.1% last month. Perhaps Gen Z men have taken note, which is why they’ve embraced former President Donald Trump by a 13-point margin, according to a New York Times/Siena College poll.
If that shift in political allegiance contributes to Democratic losses in November, the party will have its reckless immigration policy to blame.
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