The Corner

Foreign-Born, Uneducated, and Unemployed

The Labor Department doesn’t usually break out the unemployment rates for immigrants and for different levels of education, so my colleagues Steve Camarota and Karen Jensenius did. Their report (L.A. Times coverage here) found, among other things, that Hispanic immigrants with less than a high-school education have an unemployment rate of 15 percent. And only 62 percent of them are even in the labor force (i.e., either working or looking for work). So what’s the rationale for taking in more of them?

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