Posted on 04/12/2010 5:57:25 AM PDT by opentalk
The Department of Homeland Security has just reported that during 2009, they issued 1,130,818 new Green Cards to foreign nationals, allowing them to work legally in this country. That number represents the fourth highest number of cards issued in one year.
750,000 of the new Green Cards were given to the families of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents.
The top four recipient nations are as follows:
-Mexico
164,920
-China
receiving 64,238
-Philippines
60,029
-India
57,304
In Feb. 2009, the financial institution Merrill Lynch announced that the nations actual unemployment rate had reached 13.9 percent. A year later, that number had risen to 17.3 percent. This figure represents Americans who have been laid off from full-time positions and are now working part-time, as well as those who have simply stopped looking for work, and workers whose unemployment benefits have run out.
The official unemployment figure given monthly by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics is now listed around 10 percent, but represents only those Americans currently receiving unemployment checks, and is not truly indicative of the dire employment situation now facing the U.S.
In 1931, the second full year of the Great Depression, the average rate of unemployment was 16.3 percent, with U.S. unemployment peaking at 25 percent in 1933. We now sit in between those two disastrous figures, with an ever-worsening economy.
With U.S. unemployment now at depression levels, we simply can no longer tolerate not only illegal immigration, but any immigration which allows foreign nationals to take much-needed jobs from American citizens.
Why are we paying the salaries of elected representatives who now seem to represent everyone, but us?
At least that's what I recall from my Alpha Bits days.
What I do remember is posting some numbers that belied the nonsense being thrown-about regarding H1-B's being paid "slave wages."
Kenny, let me say this as kindly as I can. Many of the illegals have a less than eighth grade education. As sizable amount have far less than that. So does it really matter what language I post this in?
No. ;-)
For the record, I have sorrow for the people of Mexico. Let it be clear though, we and the United States did not create the system they are saddled with.
Folks, don’t look at U.S. Citizens and ask if they don’t have any compassion as if to shame them. It’s the government of Mexico’s obligation to help them. When are you going to ask that government if it has any compassion?
The answer of course is NEVER. Screw you then...
Not you Kenny.
I hear ya. I put on a Mexican-made suit to give an oral argument before an American court, and later talked to a Chinese law professor about how to make China better respect the rule of law (and thus be less dangerous to Americans), and now I’m about to celebrate completing a number of projects with Belgian beer and Irish whiskey at a successful business owned by a friend of mine who is an Irishman and a naturalized American citizen, who proudly displays the flag of his beloved adopted country which he was awarded at his citizenship ceremony, along with a plaque commemorating the day he became a citizen.
I’m drinking with another friend of mine who is an Englishman who is also a naturalized U.S. citizen, who is a productive engineer for a company that employs a lot of Americans, and who loves his adopted country.
Aren’t free trade and traditional immigration awful? What could be less American?
Brad Paisley? Seriously, that's what I've heard. Some sort of a commielib, I think. Won't stop me from playing this:
American Saturday Night*_____
On your way home, do stop by the Home Depot parking lot and do some tequila shooters with the illegal aliens looking for the work Americans won't do.
BTW, if I were you, counselor, I'd have the Irishman and the Johnny Bull riding shotgun.
They took our JERB!
Sorry, I meant to ping you to my last.
Look, lawyers can sell out their country, they should just be quiet about it. Nobody likes a loud rapist.
I don’t think lawyers should be able to sell out their country.
Why would I want to do that?
People need to stay focused.
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