While the devil is truly in the details Fox News searches for another impeachable meme via Executive Branch overreach / defiance of Congress with the help of
The Center for Immigration Studies and one of the most reactionary US Senators, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, "only the second nominee to the federal judiciary in 48 years whose nomination was killed by the Senate Judiciary Committee". And as usual the actual numbers reveal that jobs aren't being taken away and numbers from the dominant national sources of such labor are actually in decline, leaving what has become the Dreamer issue of resolving the status of a future US workforce without devolving into anti-immigrant racism. The Right continues to sow the unfounded fear of some monolithic shadow population that ultimately is no different than any prior wave of immigration which might actually require the average 'bagger to examine the historical conditions of their own immigrant histories.
Since 2009, the Obama administration issued roughly 5.5 million work permits to non-citizens beyond what Congress has authorized, according to recently-released documents that critics of U.S. policy say reveals a "shadow" or "parallel" immigration system stifling wages and taking jobs from Americans.
Illegal immigrants make up 3.5 percent of the U.S. population
The vast majority of the population has roots in North America -- particularly Mexico and Central America. China, the Philippines, Korea and Vietnam are among the top 10 countries of origin for the Asian illegal immigrant population, which has remained stable at 1.3 million -- about 11 percent of all undocumented immigrants.
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