From recent congressional testimony (pdf):

A variety of demand, supply, and institutional forces have been at work in reducing young employment opportunities. Unprecedented levels of legal, illegal and temporary immigration have been one of the factors underlying this deterioration in youth labor markets. Declines in youth employment have been matched almost one for one with increased employment of new arrivals over the past 7 years. This summer we project that U.S. labor markets will have the lowest rate of teen employment since we have kept data going back to 1948.

Jobs Americans won't do? Hah!

Go to Iowa, Maine, North Dakota, Idaho, and Nebraska where there are relatively few guest workers or immigrants, and you will find much higher rates of teen employment (in the mid to high 50s), as well as teens working in the types of jobs that it is claimed no one wishes to take.

Here's an earlier piece on the same topic. Read more...

... because the New York Times is going bonkers.

"More immigrants choose to leave U.S., go home":

No hard figures exist, but various surveys and anecdotes from immigrants, their advocates and consular officers in Miami suggest that more Latin Americans are voluntarily heading back home, the apparent result of the U.S. economic downturn and anxiety generated by a federal crackdown on illegal immigration.

• E-Verify -- the government's online system enabling employers to check legal status of workers -- is already handling more than 10 percent of all new hires.
• Mechanical olive pickers are beginning to spread: "As efficiency of mechanical harvesting increases and cost of hand harvesting increases, mechanical harvesting will become more attractive." (h/t Randall Burns)
• American livers transplanted to Japanese gangsters: "'If you want to destroy public support for organ donation on the part of Americans, you'd be hard pressed to think of a practice that would be better suited,' said Arthur Caplan, a bioethicist at the University of Pennsylvania." (h/t Michelle)
• Beware the lifeguard gap! (h/t Chris Kelly)

Welcome to the Center for Immigration Studies’ new website, which has several new features.

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