Title: Most Americans say immigrants mainly fill jobs US citizens don’t want | Pew Research Center
Headings: A majority of Americans say immigrants mostly fill jobs U.S. citizens do not want
A majority of Americans say immigrants mostly fill jobs U.S. citizens do not want
Unauthorized immigrant workers in the U.S.
Industries and occupations of U.S. legal and unauthorized immigrants
Facts are more important than ever

Content: The findings are little changed from August 2019, when 77% of U.S. adults said undocumented immigrants fill jobs U.S. citizens do not want. They come amid mounting job losses across the nation during the COVID-19 outbreak. The U.S. unemployment rate soared to 14.7% in April, up from 4.4% in March, the highest monthly rate since 1948. In May, it was 13.3%. The Center’s April-May survey found most Americans say the federal government does not have a responsibility to provide economic help to undocumented immigrants who have lost their job due to the outbreak. How we did this
To examine the public’s attitudes on whether immigrants hold jobs that U.S. citizens would want, we surveyed 10,957 U.S. adults from April 29 to May 5, 2020. Everyone who took part is a member of Pew Research Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP), an online survey panel that is recruited through national, random sampling of residential addresses. This way nearly all U.S. adults have a chance of selection. The survey is weighted to be representative of the U.S. adult population by gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, education and other categories. Read more about the ATP’s methodology.