When companies move production offshore, they pull away not only low-wage service jobs but also many related jobs, such as high-skilled managers, tech repair people, and others. But hiring immigrants for low-wage jobs helps keep many kinds of support services in the United States. In fact, when immigration is rising as a share of employment in an economic sector, offshoring tends to be falling, and vice versa. That means immigrants are very often competing more with offshored workers than with other laborers in America.
