Posted on 02/09/2015 5:21:58 AM PST by xzins
Last Friday’s employment numbers where the subject of a lot of spin from the White House to make them sound good and from Republican politicians to make them sound bad, but almost no one talked about the most important finding from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
And that finding was that, since the start of the recession in 2007 (which allegedly ended in June 2009) the number of foreign workers employed in the United States rose by 1.7 million, while the number of American-born workers employed decreased by 1.5 million.
About the only one in Washington talking about this astonishing number was our friend principled limited government constitutional conservative Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Immigration Subcommittee Chairman.
Senator Sessions has been one of the most vocal opponents of the president’s attempt to grant an illegal amnesty to millions of illegal aliens and the open borders policies which he argues harms American workers.
In an exclusive exchange with Breitbart News’ Caroline May Session’s spokesman Stephen Miller emailed Breitbart, “There are two jobs narratives: the one from the Administration, and the one lived and experienced by American workers. Fewer American workers are employed today than when the recession began. The President’s policies have profited the corporate immigration lobby and no-borders contingent, but have been only deleterious for wage-earners.”
Miller highlighted to May that in addition to the annual flow of over 1.7 million permanent legal immigrants and nonimmigrant workers, as the Center for Immigration Studies recently exposed, since 2009 the administration has also provided another 5.5 million immigrants with employment authorization documents (EAD).
“What we are seeing in the BLS stats is the human fallout from the President’s actions,” Miller continued. “Figures such as these should be leading the nightly news. One of the first questions posited ought to be: will Minority Leader [Harry] Reid’s (D-NV) caucus continue to shield the issuance of 5 million more EADs for those illegally here?”
Of course Senator Sessions is right, but what about the rest of the Capitol Hill Republicans?
We checked for statements from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Speaker john Boehner as well as other top Republicans and we couldn’t get or find one statement regarding the human toll these cheap labor policies are having on American families.
And that makes us wonder exactly who do Capitol Hill Republicans represent?
Today, despite President Obama and his Democratic Party allies trying to blue sky the numbers, more than 92 million Americans remain out of the labor force.
How has this occurred if the economy is in “recovery” as President Obama and his Democratic Party allies claim?
The major reason in our view is the lax immigration policies of the past several Presidents.
As Karen Zeigler and Steven A. Camarota of the Center for Immigration Studies noted earlier this summer, “Government data show that since 2000 all of the net gain in the number of working-age (16 to 65) people holding a job has gone to immigrants (legal and illegal).”
This is remarkable, concluded Zeigler and Camarota, “given that native-born Americans accounted for two-thirds of the growth in the total working-age population.”
Now here’s the key takeaway from Zeigler and Camarota’s study: “Though there has been some recovery from the Great Recession, there were still fewer working-age natives holding a job in the first quarter of 2014 than in 2000, while the number of immigrants with a job was 5.7 million above the 2000 level.” (Emphasis ours)
What’s more, a Freedom of Information Act request by the Center for Immigration Studies unearthed the operation of a shadow immigration system previously unknown to the American public.
Senator Sessions was again one of the few on Capitol Hill to react to this serial law-breaking saying, “We know now the Administration has been issuing millions of additional work permits beyond what Congress has authorized. Since 2009, the Administration has issued 5.5 million new work permits in excess of the regular immigration flow. This massive increase in the labor supply has occurred simultaneously with a steep drop in family incomes and a sharp rise in the number of Americans pushed out of the workforce. All jobs gains since the recession have gone to foreign workers, while the slack labor market has depressed median family incomes almost $5,000 in that time.”
Although it would be nice if Republicans for once did the right thing on immigration simply because it was right and in the interest of American workers (AKA their constituents, politically stopping this tide of foreign workers from destroying the quality of life for millions of American families should be a no-brainer for Republicans.
Back before the midterm elections in which Democrats were vaporized in large measure because of their support of amnesty and open borders, top pollster Kellyanne Conway, President & CEO of the polling company, conducted a poll that found likely voters were unequivocal in their support of immigration policies that protect the American worker.
Conway found their sentiment to be the inverse of the oft-repeated phrase, “illegal immigrants do the jobs that Americans don’t want to do,” finding instead that voters thought American workers should have a fair opportunity to do the jobs that illegal immigrants currently do. (See links to Conway’s poll at the end of this article)
And these voters get the economics of illegal immigration and understand that depressed wages are one of the results of allowing a flood of illegal aliens to enter the American workforce.
“Raise the pay” is a rallying call for these voters, who believe there are plenty of Americans to do the work and that better pay and more training is an elixir for labor shortages. Working class voters, married women, and political Independents agree with this in dramatic numbers noted Conway.
These results turn the often-heard statement that illegal immigrants do the jobs that Americans won’t do on its head. Over 8-in-10 respondents believe that American workers and legal immigrants already in the U.S. should get first pick at these jobs before illegals. As one can see from the graph below, blue collar workers support having the opportunity to take these positions more than the any other demographic group studied.
Perhaps the most important finding of Conway’s research was this data point: 75% want more enforcement of current immigration laws, including 63% of Hispanics and over 50% of Democrats (emphasis ours) meaning that the Chamber of Commerce line to the effect that Republicans are about to go extinct because they want our immigration laws enforced is a bunch of hooey.
With the latest numbers showing that net U.S. job gains since the recession have gone to foreign-born workers, and family income falling by some $5,000 a year during the same time, it is time for Republicans to put an end to the devastation of American families that Obama’s cheap labor policy has caused. We urge you to call your Representative and Senators (the Capitol Switchboard is 1-866-220-0044) and demand that they vote to defund Obama’s unconstitutional executive amnesty and protect American jobs for American workers.
Probably the most important statistic about jobs in America yet.
And yet, there are those in government who continually push to being even more in. I know that this is the Age of Lies administration, but until Americans accept the truth about our struggling economy, nothing will change.
Yes, that says it all, doesn’t it?
Many Americans have “been retired” earlier than they anticipated.
CONgre$$? The elites in CONgre$$?
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers…
/list of grievances
6. But the grand nostrum will be a public debt…
7. It must not be forgotten that the members of the legislative body are to have a deep stake in the game. This is an essential point, and happily is attended with no difficulty. A sufficient number, properly disposed, can alternately legislate and speculate, and speculate and legislate, and buy and sell, and sell and buy, until a due portion of the property of their constituents has passed into their hands to give them an interest against their constituents, and to ensure the part they are to act.
8. The ways in which a great debt, so constituted and applied, will contribute to the ultimate end in view are both numerous and obvious. (1) The favorite few, thus possessed of it, whether within or without the government, will feel the staunchest fealty to it, and will go through thick and thin to support it in all its oppressions and usurpations. (2) Their money will give them consequence and influence, even among those who have been tricked out of it. (3) They will be the readiest materials that can be found for a hereditary aristocratic order, whenever matters are ripe for one. (4) A great debt will require great taxes; great taxes, many taxgatherers and other officers; and all officers are auxiliaries of power.
11. As soon as sufficient progress in the intended change shall have been made, and the public mind duly prepared according to the rules already laid down, it will be proper to venture on another and a bolder step toward a removal of the constitutional landmarks.
Rules for Radicals? “No, Rules for Changing a Limited Republican Government into an Unlimited Hereditary One”…
http://www.constitution.org/cmt/freneau/republic2monarchy.htm
/Freneau
The above says that conservatives, who believe only lawful immigrants should be in the job pool, could run an election campaign on that issue and blow away the competition.
A Cruz/Sessions or Sessions/Cruz ticket would eat the opposition alive.
“And that makes us wonder exactly who do Capitol Hill Republicans represent? “
Three guesses.
It’s all part of the wholesale invalidation of American citizenship.
The idea of US ‘citizenship’ is becoming absolutely worthless except when politicians continue in their agenda to exploit American taxpayers and appropriate tax revenue.
Apart from THAT, there is nothing IN being a US citizen. The benefits are being systematically eroded (national security is not even assured) and the responsibilities are strictly limited to involuntary servitude ... so that the politicians’ agenda may remain in place through coercive taxation.
Yeah, if Republicans were about to go extinct they wouldn’t own Congress right now. I think many middle class (and former middle class) voters have accepted that the Dems have no answers; the problem is that they felt the same way after 8 years of Bush as well. Both parties will be around forever; it is a question of which can grow a lasting base.
Dems know they can’t build one just on unassimilated minorities and sexual deviants; Republicans know they can’t build one just on family values/morality.
Homeschooling just might be the hope of America’s future.
I would love to see America’s parents nullify ‘common core’ by choosing to keep their kids home until their school districts jettison it.
It’s strange to watch the spirit of Laodicea descend on America. In my circles, there are actually fewer parents homeschooling than before.
Homeschooling is being injured by the facts of economic life: jobs are so bad, pay is so poor, that to have a livable income both parents must work to provide reasonable food, clothing, and shelter.
I’m not making excuses, but it is a reality.
I know of one homeschooling family where the one parent intentionally stayed home despite the impact on income. The other parent had a decent enough skill to make that possible, but that is not always the case.
They use the Liberty schooling materials on line. My sense as I watched his kids explain their classes is that almost any parent could monitor this and that 2 parents doing it at staggered times could still make it possible. The question, of course, would be funding those classes.
Whenever you hear "We can't find enough American workers..." remember to add the missing clause "...willing to take the subpar wages we want to pay".
They have manipulated our belief in the free market/free enterprise system to worm their way into power. It’s time to show them that free market rejects crony capitalism and rejects backroom serf labor deals
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