claim: “illegal immigrants currently occupy 8 million jobs.”
author: lamar smith
evidence_1: one recent estimate by researchers at the pew hispanic center puts the number  of illegal aliens in the workforce at 8 million out of an overall population of 11.2 ...
evidence_2: 6 days ago ... some 8 million undocumented workers pick american fruit, construct american ...  attention on migrants currently trying to cross the border is that millions of ...  about 8 million of them have jobs, making up 5 percent of the u.s. ...
evidence_3: dec 3, 2009 ... in an ideas piece, smith says now is the time for the w.h. to stand up for ... the 8  million jobs currently occupied by illegal immigrants and make ...
evidence_4: may 13, 2010 ... miller makes it all sound so easy: eight million illegal immigrants working in the ...  reclaim the nearly 8 million jobs that illegal immigrants currently hold. ...  immigrant workers "create almost as many" jobs as they occupy, "and ...
evidence_5: may 26, 2017 ... with fewer native born workers coming into the job market, the country is ... today , there are 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the united states. ... at  8.3 million in 2009, but has since dropped slightly to 8 million.