Jobs report is a boom for migrants, slump for Americans

The new August jobs report shows employment numbers of U.S.-born workers and foreign-born workers going on two very different trajectories. Data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, an arm of the Department of Labor, shows native-born Americans lost more than 1.3 million jobs over the last 12 months, while foreign-born workers gained more than 1.2 million jobs. The news comes as U.S. job growth picked up in August but missed economists' expectations, while the unemployment rate changed little. As of August of this year, there are 129,712,000 native-born workers...