According to the Pew Research Center, while the U.S. unauthorized immigrant workforce holds fewer blue-collar jobs than it did prior to the 2007-2009 recession, the majority of unauthorized labors still work in low-skilled service, construction and production occupations. The number of unauthorized immigrants working in construction or product jobs fell by around 475,000 between 2007 and 2012 - a decline of 5 percent.
In 2012, unauthorized immigrants made up 14 percent of the construction industry's total workforce, holding almost twice the share of construction and product jobs compared to U.S.-born workers.
(more on the shifting unauthorized immigrant labor workforce and the construction industry...)
