The Impact of Illegal Immigration on the Wages and Employment Opportunities of Black Workers

[Excerpt] The United States Commission on Civil Rights (Commission) is pleased to transmit this report, The Impact of Illegal Immigration on the Wages and Employment Opportunities of Black Workers. A panel of experts briefed members of the Commission on April 4, 2008 regarding the evidence for economic loss and job opportunity costs to black workers attributable to illegal immigration. The panelists also described non-economic factors contributing to the depression of black wages and employment rates. Based on that discussion, the Commission developed the findings and recommendation that are included in this report. Among its findings, the Commission notes that the illegal workers are estimated to account for as much as one-third of total immigrants in the United States, and that illegal immigration has tended to increase the supply of low-skilled, low-wage labor available. The Commission found also that about six in 10 adult black males have a high school diploma or less, and are disproportionately employed in the low-skilled labor market in likely competition with immigrants. Evidence for negative effects of such competition ranged from modest to significant, according to the experts who testified, but even those experts who viewed the effects as modest overall found significant effects in occupations such as meatpacking and construction. The Commission views this topic as complex, and therefore makes no specific recommendations at this time. The Commission recommends generally, however, that the Bureau of Labor Statistics and other appropriate governmental agencies collect data concerning the presence of illegal workers in the U.S. workforce and on the employment and wage rate effects of such workers on low-skilled and low-wage workers of all races. The Commission believes that such data should be made available to the public

Peaceful Coexistence: Reconciling Nondiscrimination Principles with Civil Liberties.

A report which has a primary focus on the uncertain boundaries of religious freedom under the Free Exercises and Establishment Clauses of the First Amendment and under some federal statutes

Civil Rights Issues in Maine: a Briefing Summary on Hate Crimes, Racial Tensions, and Migrant/Immigrant Workers

A report prepared by the Maine Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights in 1996. Major sections: Hate Crimes and Bias in Maine; Racial Tension and Educating Language Minority Youth; Migrant and Immigrant Workers

Report on Maine: Denial of Equal Opportunity in Rental Housing and its Effect on Negroes in Portland and Bangor, Maine

Introduction Although the Maine State Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights is concerned with the entire scope of civil rights responsibilities in the State, most of its attention in the last two and a half years has been focused on denial of equal opportunity in housing to Negroes. Investigation of this denial of equal opportunity culminated in two Open Meetings, the first in Portland, Maine on March 25, 1963, and the second in Bangor, Maine on April 27, 1964. It is significant that Maine, geographically remote from the troubled South and temperamentally different from the large industrial centers in the North, should contain this problem. It is possible that many residents of this State, and of other States may be surprised to discover that denial of equal opportunity is not confined to any one section of the country but is to be found even in this New England State which is not traditionally regarded as a site of racial tensions. Unfortunately, the problem is not new in Maine. But it is only now that it has emerged as one that people in the State are recognizing, discussing, and trying to solve.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1369/thumbnail.jp

Federal and State Services and the Maine Indian : A Report

Federal and State Services and the Maine Indian : A Report. A report of the Maine Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights prepared for the information and consideration of the Commission. This report will be considered by the Commission, and the Commission will make public its reaction. In the meantime, the findings and recommendations of this report should not be attributed to the Commission, but only to the Maine Advisory Committee. December 1974.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/me_collection/1021/thumbnail.jp

Briefing on Tragedy Along the Arizona-Mexico Border: Undocumented Immigrants Face Death in the Desert: Before the Arizona Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Tucson, August 23, 2002

A record number of Mexican immigrants trying to illegally enter the United States died along the Arizona-Mexico border in 2002, most during the sweltering, drought-ridden summer months. As the death toll mounted, U.S. immigration policies came under fire and myriad solutions to the problem were proposed. Against this backdrop, the Arizona Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights held a briefing on August 23, 2002, in Tucson to gather information on border-crossing and other immigration issues, and in the process help spur actions to stem deaths in the desert. 1. Thirteen panelists spoke before the committee, including government officials, human rights advocates, and immigration lawyers. 2. Reflecting the urgency of the situation, many panelists focused on the reasons behind crossing deaths and ways to prevent them. Others discussed civil and human rights violations committed against migrants and U.S. policies that increasingly criminalize people who have immigrated for jobs or to join family members

Public Education ; 1963 staff report

Includes bibliographiesMode of access: Internet

Intimidation and violence : racial and religious bigotry in America /

"January 1983."Item 288-A-5Mode of access: Internet

Hearings before the United States Commission on Civil rights. Hearings held in Jackson, Miss., February 16-20, 1965.

Mode of access: Internet

Political participation ; a study of the participation by Negroes in the electoral and political processes in 10 Southern States since passage of the Voting rights act of 1965.

On cover: A report of the United States Commission on Civil Rights.Bibliographical footnotes.Mode of access: Internet