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Back to Home** Job Loss: Economy or Immigration? **  With our plummeting economy, job loss has been brought into the spotlight. Our country's businesses can’t afford to continue to run the way they have previously been. Many businesses are making changes by cutting back on the number of workers they hire while other businesses have come up with another plan to save some money. The number of illegal immigrants in the United States has continued to rise. These immigrants are also looking for jobs - no matter what that job is. Business owners have come to the realization that these illegal immigrants will perform jobs for a cheaper pay than natives will. As a result, they have fired workers and created job openings for immigrants willing to work for a cheaper pay.

Studies show between March of 2004 and 2009, the number of unemployed adult natives increased by 2.3 million, while the number of employed adult immigrants increased by 2.3 million. The top five states with the largest increase in the number of immigrants holding jobs were Texas, North Carolina, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. With the upcoming 2012 election, this is a problem that is going to be addressed to the candidates over and over again. The Republican Party’s candidate, Kurtis Ney, has come up with a simple answer: get rid of the illegal immigrants and open jobs to the American citizens that deserve them. By doing this, Ney believes this could open nearly 5-7 million jobs in America. America’s economy depends greatly on these job openings - something that Ney can deliver.