Remember all those new jobs in Texas Governor Perry keeps talking about? Would it surprise you to learn that the overwhelming majority went to newly arrived immigrants and not to Americans? Surprise! From 2007 to 2011, 81 percent of the job growth went to recently arrived foreign workers — about half legal, half illegal. Nor did all this wonderful job creation for foreigners seem to benefit Americans indirectly — native-born Texans saw the same doubling of unemployment that Americans elsewhere experienced during the recession. So, to the extent Perry has anything to do with all this — and he’s the one boasting of his role in making it happen — his main accomplishment seems to have been to dissolve the workforce and elect a new one. Maybe this is what the plantation owners want, and certainly their immigrant laborers aren’t complaining, but what’s in it for the rest of us?
what about the jobs created from 2001 to 2007 ? funny how you managed to miss those ...
Romney tool ...
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseHe's not a Romney tool, he just hates immigrants to the point that it's all he sees, in any argument.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI think your slur is unhelpful and inaccurate.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIt might be unhelpfull, not that I care, but it is not inaccurate.
One only has to read Krikorian consistently and see that he always opposes immigration, of any kind.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI have read Kirkorian in NR for years, and on what planet does opposing immigration make you an immigrant hater?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseMarkW is right, always is. He's never added an unenlightening comment to NRO. We need more one-man-think-tanks like him, folks who don't preach to the choir but convert the libreral clods to logical conservatives.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseDid you forget to mention you work for the folks who did the study ?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseYou've noticed that too. Mr. Krikorian posts here all the time without disclosing what group he is associated with. And of course, his posts are all about immigration. [Yawn}.
Is NRO interested in full disclosure anymore?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseUnequivocally, No.
See this re Nicole Gelinas, who certainly appears to be trying to take down Perry with her post re SS.
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Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseYour accusation of hidden agendas is inaccurate and particularly nasty. Nobody has a bio blurb on NRO blog posts, but affiliations are spelled out clearly on all articles.
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Krikorian has a long history with NR and a well-known point of view, one that often runs counter to conventional wisdom. His opinion is very useful in evaluating immigration topics.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThe editors of the WSJ are soooo gonna AttackWatch you.
Wait, can we AttackWatch a conservative that takes a whack at another conservative?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseAnd the alternative would have been no jobs for anyone? How is that better?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThat's a joke, right?
Employment is a zero sum game?
So you think the jobs would not exist if illegals did not hold the jobs. LOL
How about jobs for unemployed American citizens who live in Texas or unemployed citizens living elsewhere who might move to Texas for the job.
Or with 10% of Americans looking for work, were these the mythical "jobs that Americans won't do"? (I assume the unemployment rate does not measure unemployed illegals, but with the feds, who knows)
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseWhile the employment of illegal immigrants is fair game and it should be highlighted who cares about legal immigrants? If an immigrant is here legally and gets a job I'm all for it. Isn't that the way it's supposed to work?
The GOP needs to be anti-illegal immigration and not anti-immigration.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI understand why you feel that way, Daily Plunge, but as a Texan I am also concerned about the illegal immigrants who aren't working.
Here's why: It is the federal government's job to secure the borders. Over the past 5 years Texas has spent $400 million of state funds to secure our borders, but it is not enough to staunch the flow of illegals. While we are waiting on the federal government to fulfill its mandate, illegals who are not working in Texas will be forced by life support needs to commit illegal acts.
Since they are already here, I would rather they be working than robbing me at gunpoint to feed their kids.
The north Dallas suburban area where I live is heavily populated with Latinos, legal and illegal. It's hard to tell. They don't wear yellow stars on their t-shirts so we can tell which is which.
Your "plantation owner" insult is so out of line! Please. Don't try to apply Old South slurs to Texas. We had nothing to do with plantations.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseOther than (your ancestors) fighting, killing, and dying to sustain a system that included them as a rather visible example of a very peculiar institution.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"... illegals who are not working in Texas will be forced by life support needs to commit MORE illegal acts."
Fixed that for you.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseImmigration is a policy. Every nation has a right to set the number of immigrants and the selection criteria. Wanting to reduce numbers, or change criteria, is simply a policy preference. Krikorian and his organization have spelled out, time and time again, their reason for wanting numbers reduced -- you might disagree, but his position is a perfectly legitimate one, and it is perfectly acceptable for him to try to get politicians to adopt it.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI like Mr. Krikorian's writing a lot. I really respect his work.
Yes, you guessed it ... BUT! But, this blurb is absurd, to be quite generous, actually.
"his main accomplishment seems to have been to dissolve the workforce and elect a new one."
Hyperbolic in the extreme. Let's see if anyone -- including commenters, chief among them, me -- can top that hyperbole for Thursday, September 22, 2011.
I doubt it highly.
According to Krikorian, white Anglo Saxons in Texas are suffering from the same anemic economy as the rest of us.
Unfortunately for him, from outside of Texas, he's the only one singing that tune. He should actually go there, and take a t-o from the academic wonkishness, and talk to people who live there.
I guess that wouldn't count as "think tank"-type work; more journalistic. He'd get a more accurate picture of the supposed suffering of white people in TX.
Nice try, Mark.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThe post is disappointing on a couple of levels -- if the research is accurate, I have to take the Texas miracle down a few notches in my mind, which is sad because I am from Dallas and route for the home team. If the research is inaccurate, that reflects poorly on the author.
From on another angle, Mark Steyn has quoted either in his NRO columns or in The Corner articles published in Houston Chronicle reporting Census Bureau basically saying that Anglos will be a minority very soon. In that sense one could superficially say Anglos are beleaguered and by extension not surprising jobs would be going to immigrants.
I happen to know personally some of those immigrants and they are from Nepal, India, etc., and this research seems to put them all into an amorphous "immigrant" class.
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