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butterbean · Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 2269

When I took this job at VDARE.COM, I was assured there would be no math. As I have mentioned before, I failed every statistics course I ever took…some more than once.

In spite of my mathematical ineptitude, even I understood (and was startled by) the numbers from the new Latino Labor Report issued this morning by the Pew Hispanic Research Center.

How many times have we been told that illegal immigrants (usually referred to as “foreign-born workers” or as I like to call them “likely Democrat voters”) are not taking jobs away from American workers?

They do the jobs nobody else will do…we need them…Americans are lazy…blah, blah, blah.

Right…and how they only take the back-breaking jobs in the agriculture industry such as picking lettuce or shaking nut trees—and of course this information comes to us almost subliminally via the not-so-subtle but always maudlin Mainstream Media (MSM) in stories that say something like this:

Little 12 year-old Maria—who lives in a one room apartment with the 15 relatives she supports with her meager $2/hr wage—sustained a concussion when she fell from the top of a twenty foot walnut tree…in other news, there will be no lettuce this year thanks to increased border security measures…Hollywood “Activist” Sean Penn is organizing a vegetarian march in Washington later this week.

As such, it may surprise you to hear (actually it won’t because you’ve been reading VDARE.COM’s Eddy Rubenstein) that this kind of comment is—to put it politely—untrue.

According to the Latino Labor Report,

The Latino labor force added 867,000 workers between the second quarters of 2005 and 2006, more than any other group.

The white labor force increased by 781,000, or only 0.8%, between the second quarters of 2005 and 2006.

The Pew report does not at any point make reference to illegal immigrants. But it does use the term “foreign-born” which (when referring to Hispanics) very often means the same thing.

Over the previous 12-month period, the “overall employment” for Latinos increased by 993,000—that’s an increase of 5.3% in one year.

Interestingly enough, the report mentions that, while Hispanics make up only 13% of the U.S. labor force, they accounted for 37% of the total increase in employment.

Hmm…so all those new jobs created in the Bush recovery—they’re going to whom? Americans? Yeah, not so much.

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http://www.vdare.com/bevens/060927_undercutting.htm