A majority of U.S. voters believe immigrants are working in jobs U.S. citizens don’t want. That’s according to a new report from the Pew Research Center.
Researchers say they surveyed voters across the country this fall and found about 75% believed undocumented immigrants take jobs U.S. citizens don’t want. About 60% said the same of immigrants with legal permissions to be in the United States.
That was the case across the political spectrum — though at different rates.
Ninety percent of Harris supporters believed undocumented immigrants were in jobs American citizens didn’t want, compared with almost 60% of Trump voters. The researchers say their new findings are very similar to those from 2020.
The 2022 Pew analysis showed the largest share of immigrant workers is in the agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting sector — accounting for about 27% of the workforce — followed by construction, with about 26%.
Pew research from 2022 shows immigrants make up about 18% of the overall U.S. labor force and do not outpace U.S. citizens in any major industry.-
