Ordena Willis
No, I do not believe that migrates or anyone that crosses the border are affecting the African American or any minorities as far as jobs, because the jobs they are taking are the ones we don’t want to work.
Mark Hatcher
I do not think so I think the employment rate of African Americans is pretty much stagnate especially at the professional level or what people consider the professional level. I think that when immigrants come into the country, they go through the proper process to be implemented or ingratiated into the workforce. But I think the workforce where African Americans come into play, if they have roles or have positions of employment, they typically can maintain them and if they lose it it’s generally through some form of organizational structure whether its racism, whether its nepotism or some corporate downsizing and what it does all minority group suffer the same fate for the most part.
Jessica Parks
No. I feel like if they are coming in illegally, they are trying to provide for their families and the African American community would probably be placed in the same situations if they were them. So, I feel like if we step up to the plate and we are here legally, they should feel obligated to get up and get a job just like everyone else
Allen Branch
I think they have. Illegal immigrants come into America and push down the wages of jobs that African Americans or other Americans would do, so I feel that employers that employ immigrants are giving them lower wages than they would normally give legal citizens and that is pushing down the job rate not allowing proper rates for those jobs that would make other American groups do it, so it affects African Americans but other Americans in general.
Kesanet
I don’t think so. Most jobs immigrants take are jobs most people do not want — labor, custodial, field work. Americans aren’t looking to those types of jobs. So, no I do not think it affects the African American employment position or any other American for that fact and if they go through the proper channels to gain citizenship then they are entitled to do what it takes to take care of their families.
Timothy Thornton
I do not believe that immigrants have been taking jobs from African Americans, immigrant have largely taken jobs that have not been filled by Americans and these are jobs that most Americans do not want to do. So, in some sense, these are unfilled jobs and so if anything, they are filling a void.
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