Do immigrants really do jobs Americans don’t want to do?

The question has no ‘one word’ answer and recently a study by the Center for Immigration Studies, a group advocating for tight restrictions on immigration, literally exposed the myth that Americans will not do the low-wage work done by immigrants. It however does not blame immigrants for the unemployment among American workers.

According to the CIS report, native-born United States citizens form a majority in the low-wage industries, contrary to the general belief that immigrants do only those works which native-born Americans don’t wish to do. Therefore, CIS notes that immigrants have become tough competitors to the native US born workers.

One way of looking at the findings is that immigrants could comprise of a much smaller part of the workforce in America than it is thought in general. To support this, lets point at the findings of the CIS which says that native-born Americans comprise of fifty-five percent of maids and housekeepers; among taxi drivers and chauffeurs fifty-eight percent are native born, sixty three percent among all butchers and meat manufactures are also native born and so on.

According to one more report from the CIS, native-born Americans’ official unemployment rate is 9.7 percent.

The report concludes that the data that has been found reveal that the famous argument that immigrants do only those jobs which Americans do not want to do is absolutely untrue. It stated that to say that some jobs are done almost entirely by immigrants is in no way helpful in understanding the impact of immigration on workers of America.