Immigrants and asylum seekers buy groceries. They rent homes. They buy cars. They buy gas. They buy clothes. They buy toys. They buy school supplies. They buy work supplies. And so on.

And the consumption of all those services increases demand, which increases jobs. Sure, immigrants and asylum seekers will fill existing jobs, but their presence results in a net increase in jobs, not in a net decrease.

And of course there might be some immigrants and some asylum seekers who won’t work, but I’d love someone to provide evidence that it’ll be at a rate higher than that of people who were born in Canada (or the US, or whatever country we’re discussing).

In fact, a 2017 report from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics states:

“The unemployment rate for foreign-born persons in the United States was 4.1 percent in 2017, down from 4.3 percent in 2016, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The jobless rate of nativeborn persons was 4.4 percent in 2017, down from 5.0 percent in 2016.”

Technically, people born outside the United States are more likely to hold a job than those born within it.

As well, according to the same report, people born outside of the United States but then work in the United States are more likely than those born inside of it to work in jobs in the healthcare support, food prep, building and grounds cleaning and maintenance, personal care and service, farming, construction, production, and transportation fields. Basically, the jobs those born within the United States don’t want to do.