In the article There Are No Jobs Americans Won’t Do the writers suggested that there are no occupations in the United States that are all foreign-born. Most immigrants work in construction, cleaning, maintenance, food service, garment manufacturing, and agricultural occupations. The writers found that these occupations consist of both legal and illegal immigrants and native-born citizens. Americans have a notion that Immigrants do jobs that most Americans won’t do such as farm work, however, the writers found that only 4 percent of illegal immigrants and 2 percent of all immigrants do agricultural work.
The writers also conducted an analysis of occupations that are thought to be dominated by immigrants but are actually employing significantly more native-born citizens. The data conveys that 51 percent of native-born citizens are maids and housekeepers, 54 percent of native-born citizens are taxi drivers or chauffeurs, 64 percent of native-born citizens are butchers and meat processors, 65 percent of native-born citizens are construction laborers, and 73 percent of native-born citizens are janitors. The writers believe that high immigrant occupations are low wage jobs that require no formal education. However, not all immigrants are in industries that are low skilled. Thirty-eight percent of immigrants are software engineers, 28 percent are physicians and 7 percent are lawyers.
This article demonstrates that immigrants are being employed in American, but a higher percentage of native-born citizens are dominating the jobs in America. There are no jobs in the United States where occupation is all immigrants. In addition, there are 24 occupations out of 474 in which illegal immigrant are among 15% of workers, whereas, 5.7% of native-born citizens are in high illegal immigrant occupations.
Camarota, Steven, et al. “There Are No Jobs Americans Won’t Do.” CIS.org, 26 Aug. 2018, cis.org/Report/There-Are-No-Jobs-Americans-Wont-Do.