Immigrants Already Displacing Americans At Record Rate—Even Before Senate Sellout By Edwin S. Rubenstein

"The Bush White House and the Senate leadership returned to their the vomit today, essentially reviving last year's Bush-Kennedy Immigration Acceleration Act,
As it happens, even without any help from the Senate, just released tables from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that the number of foreign born persons working in the U.S. increased nearly 6 percent in 2006.

Not since 2002, when post 9/11 security measures prompted many temporary and seasonal workers to stay in the country rather than risk apprehension at the border, has the immigrant workforce grown so rapidly. (Table 1.)

From 2000 to 2006 the foreign-born workforce grew by 5.3 million, or 31 percent. Over the same period the number of U.S.-born workers rose by 3.9 million, or 3.3 percent. About 57 of every 100 jobs created during these six years went to an immigrant."

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