MAGA meltdown over Indians stealing jobs as racial abuse mounts
(This story originally appeared in on Nov 02, 2024)
TOI Correspondent from Washington: Cherrypicking data from the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report during a heated election campaign, some pro-Trump economists and the MAGA media are alleging foreign-born workers are scoring «nearly all job gains» at the expense of native-born Americans amid a toxic undercurrent of resentment and racial abuse of Indian tech community.
“Over the last year, native-born Americans have lost almost 800,000 jobs while foreign-born workers have gained over 1 million jobs; the US labor market is turning into a temp agency for foreign workers and govt bureaucrats,” Heritage Foundation Economist E J Antoni wrote in a post on X that some MAGA activists portrayed as part of the «great replacement theory» to sideline native-born Americans with immigrants.
According to Antoni's reading of the report, native-born Americans have fewer jobs today than before the pandemic (-873k), while all net job growth has gone to foreign-born workers (+3.7 million). «Many Americans aren't happy w/ the economy b/c they're not the ones w/ the jobs,» he wrote.
But the October jobs report actually shows employment rose for native-born workers and fell for foreign-born workers during the month, although over the past year, employment has fallen by 773,000 for native workers and risen by 1 million for the foreign-born.
The MAGA media, notably Breitbart Report, which has long carried on a crusade against foreign skilled workers, particularly H1B visa
