Rise in Unemployment not Linked to Immigrants: IPC
Dispelling the long-standing perception of linking mounting unemployment with immigrants, the Immigration Policy Center (IPC) has released two reports concluding that recent immigration is not leading to a rise in unemployment of natives in the United States. Denying any nexus between unemployment and immigrants, IPC demographer Rob Paral, demographer and Principal of Rob Paral & Associates, said “There is this talk, allegation, discussion that somehow immigration is a cause of unemployment…but there is no direct link between the level of immigration in an area and its unemployment rate.” By “recent immigrants”, Paral implies those having moved to the U.S. “in the past ten years.” Lately, the issue has become central in Congress’ scramble for tools to reduce unemployment in the midst of the economic crisis. The current unemployment rate as of April 2009 was 8.9%.
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