Posted on 03/27/2006 8:03:56 AM PST by SC33
PRINCETON, NJ -- Last week, President Bush renewed his efforts to promote his plan to control illegal immigration while creating a new guest-worker program. This week, expectations are that the Senate will take up proposed legislation to deal with the illegal immigration situation. At the same time, House leaders who passed an immigration enforcement bill late last year intend to hold a series of events promoting border security this week.
Of course, there are plenty of reasons for Congress to act on the issue of illegal immigration, not the least of which is illustrated by the new UBS/Gallup Index of Investor Optimism poll for March showing that 80% of U.S. investors think the federal government should do more to prevent illegal immigration. Only 10% believe the government is doing enough while 7% believe the government should do less to prevent illegal immigration.
(Excerpt) Read more at poll.gallup.com ...
And then the same "Investors" say later in the poll by 84% that the Illegals "Are taking jobs Americans don't want". Utterly phsyco is the American Public. They are hurting our economy by taking jobs Americans do not want??? Make up your minds.
CBS poll:
Do You Support A Congressional Bill That Would Make Illegal Immigrants Felons?
Yes 71%
No 29%
http://cbs2.com/topstories/local_story_084102644.html
"From an economic perspective, illegal immigrants -- by their very status -- are subject to economic exploitation by being paid lower wages and working under worse conditions than other workers simply because they are "illegal" and fear being deported. The benefits of this exploitation accrue to those employers -- both companies and high-income individuals -- who employ illegal immigrants and the consumers who buy the products and services they produce. Presumably, investors, as owners of many of these companies and as higher-income individuals themselves, benefit disproportionately from today's illegal immigration."
Polling has become the scourge of our times.
Polling is like a lot of of other data collection. You can make the results come out any way you choose just by picking your audience or "cherry picking". If I were to take a poll about illegal immigrants I would pick cities in CA, TX, NM, AZ and FL. You are sure to get the response you want.
KRUGMAN & IMMIGRATION [Rich Lowry ]
On immigration at least, Paul Krugman seems to have a better understanding of market economics than some conservatives (TimesSelect):
...Because Mexican immigrants have much less education than the average U.S. worker, they increase the supply of less-skilled labor, driving down the wages of the worst-paid Americans. The most authoritative recent study of this effect, by George Borjas and Lawrence Katz of Harvard, estimates that U.S. high school dropouts would earn as much as 8 percent more if it weren't for Mexican immigration.
That's why it's intellectually dishonest to say, as President Bush does, that immigrants do ''jobs that Americans will not do.'' The willingness of Americans to do a job depends on how much that job pays -- and the reason some jobs pay too little to attract native-born Americans is competition from poorly paid immigrants.
Heard about a poll early this morning. Something about people believing that weather in their area has become more extreme. 1,000 people.....no doubt polled in the Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi areas....LOL.
Ronald Wilson Reagan remains the only US President to grant an amnesty to illegal aliens.
The workforce participation rate by race and ethnicity for February, 2006 is 66% for white Americans, 63.6% for black Americans, 66.3% for Asian Americans, and for Latino Americans it was 64.3%.
The adult Latino unemployment rate in February was 5.6% for men and 5.7% for women. Stats from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' website.
They are enemies of America.
"immigrants do the jobs that Americans will not do."
If I offered $100 an hour to clean my toilets ($200,000 per year) do you think any Americans would clean my toilets?
Damn right!
The numbers may trickle down when you lower it to $15 an hour, but their are a lot of hard working mothers who have put their kids through college cleaning floors, and didn't consider themselves not Americans.
It would serve them right. (or is that left?:)
It is an insult to say "jobs Americans don't want" if you think about it to both classes of people.
Construction has always been an American thing until the illegals came.I will refuse to have any construction done by illegals when we look to buy our new home.
An Aunt & Uncle called me over the weekend and said they called a reirement community they thought of moving to and told the manager they wouldn't be buying there because they drove around and saw a lot of illegals working construction there, today I drove around and there were NO illegals working, ha!
First they came for the gardening jobs
and I did not speak out
because I was not a gardener.
Then they came for the construction jobs
and I did not speak out
because I was not in construction.
Then they came for the computer jobs
and I did not speak out
because I was not a computer programmer.
Then they came for my job
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.
paraphrased from
Pastor Martin Niemöller
There are way more than enough new immigrants in the US right now to do all the menial, labor intensive jobs that Americans are reluctant to do.
This claim that we have to keep on importing and importing more and more new (Hispanic) immigrants is bogus.
Also, I seem to recall that in the 1960s the US used to simply issue work permits for thousands of Mexicans and/or other nationalities to travel to California and the farm states during harvest in order to help perform those harvest jobs.
After the season was over, those workers would head home to their native country with a load of money, but they would not be allowed to stay illegally in the US.
Did it. I also e-mailed both, and actually got a response from DeWhine, which was mumbo jumbo, but the fact that he actually gave me a response (so confusing it had to be actually written and not form-generated) suggests that they ARE feeling the heat.
Contrary to your beliefs, a "Guest Worker" program will DO NOTHING to stop illegal immigrants from entering this country. There will still be thousands of willing employers who do not want to pay the prevailing "American Citizen and Guest Worker" pay rates but rather will continue to employ the ILLEGALS.
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