“Guest workers” in manufacturing – US too dependent to deport?
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Manufacturing News, Source : The Manufacturer US
Published : 13 Apr 2006 16:07
Just how significant is unauthorized migrant labor to US manufacturing?
According to the Pew Hispanic Center statistics, one of very few definitive studies, unauthorized migrants comprise 4.9 percent of the total civilian labor force, or about 7.2 million workers.
About 15 percent of illegal immigrants work in manufacturing, but the Pew Hispanic Center believes that a more significant figure is the percentage of workers in any given field.
Unauthorized migrants comprise –
• 14 percent of the labor in food manufacturing;
• 13 percent in furniture manufacturing;
• 12 percent in textile manufacturing;
• 6 percent of other manufacturing industries.
At first, the political divide has been baffling, with both the traditionally immigrant-friendly Democrats, and about half the Republican party, hammering Republican supporters of Guest Worker as being “soft on immigration.” Senior Republican senators in areas of high immigrant penetration, like Republican John McCain of Arizona, tend to favor the program.
Americans as a whole favor aggressive measures, including deportation. A Wall Street Journal poll found that 56 percent of respondents do not support the Bush guest-worker program, and 53 percent of Pew respondents favored plain old deportation. Republicans like McCain appear influenced by their high-value manufacturer consistency, who would find a sudden six percent to 14 percent labor vacuum hard to fill.
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