The number of Mexican immigrants living in the U.S. illegally has declined. In 2014, 5.6 million unauthorized immigrants from Mexico lived in the U.S., down by about 1 million since 2007. [...]
Mexican unauthorized immigrants are more likely than unauthorized immigrants overall to work in the construction industry ... Among Mexican unauthorized immigrants ages 16 and older who were employed in 2012, 19% worked in construction and 13% worked in a wide range of businesses
— pewhispanic.org
The Wall Street Journal previously reported on the trend of declining Mexican-born workers in the U.S. construction industry, leading to a total loss of half a million laborers since 2007. According to a Pew Research Study in "Hispanic Trends" from March of 2015, citing the most recent data through 2012, unauthorized immigrants account for 14% of the construction workforce overall:
Unauthorized immigrants made up 5.1% of the nation’s labor force in 2012, numbering 8.1 million who were working or looking for work, according to previously published Pew Research estimates (Passel and Cohn, 2014). But as this new analysis shows, they account for a far higher share of the total workforce in specific jobs, notably farming (26%), cleaning and maintenance (17%), and construction (14%).
Read the full report from the Pew Research Center for more information on the current state of the Mexican immigrant population in the U.S.
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very simple solution, grant 5 year work visas to anyone who wants one...at the end of the 5 years if you do not get convicted of a crime (most people do not despite what idiots like trump claim) you automatically get permanent residency...after 5 years of that you become a citizen if you choose...as well as your spoice and kids...simple...done...jlax for prez 2016!!!
for christ sake put a wall-up, don't let them out!
Accurate statistics on illegal immigrants? LOL
Interesting, there isn't enough legal labor in the US?
no_form it's complicated.
we shit on unions and people who take care of their communities and expect German engineering. we forget the system that makes a German engineer (massive giving a shit about your people), we forget humans are involved....
we American's shit on our own, because that's how we roll.
you start a socialist movement here...
ideologies fighting numbers by principle, you're a threat.
quality, after nutt jobs wiped out, will be the next rational threat.
Quality already is a threat.
To profit.
I hope Americans like paying $15 a pound for strawberries.
I would pay more for less if it ensured decent living standards, but somehow this whole obsession with Retirement plans causes Americans to make shitty life decisions based on finance alone.
Hey if I can buy $10 a pound strawberries x 52 weeks x 40 years = $10,400 in savings on my strawberry purchasing. You put that in an investment fund because you know you will never loose your money to big banks that's like $35,000 at 5% compounding interest.
With that $35,000 you could then keep eating your cheap strawberries, which apparently caused your stomach cancer because of a spray used to make the shit cheap.
Our obsession with 401k has led to this mess. We value the bottom line and not the lives that live at the bottom. I fucking hate 401k's.
you know just about all these illegal workers don't have a 401K, maybe they live life?
I've done this with hispanic speaking guys who surely have shit pay and enjoy their jobs many times.
so far no accidents. I always txt my wife after doing a drop, she never knows before hand.
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