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 nation’s 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?
So, this article was “xenophobe baiting”.
Green cards should only be issued when unemployment is less than 5%.
Where is Barry’s green card?
He is an illegal alien. That is why he wants Amnesty.
-Mexico…164,920 = construction work
-China…receiving 64,238 = data systems work
-Philippines…60,029 =hospital jobs
-India…57,304 = computers
They were immigrants too, unless you count Siberia as part of North America.
They are needed here, for one reason, because of the abysmal lack of attention to, and due respect for, formal education by much of the American populace especially in the sciences.
My neighbor, who is from Peru, just got her green card...after fifteen years of following the rules. My bet is most of these are the same deal.
It doesn’t seem to bother any of the nincompoops on this thread, that Mexico just happened to get an allotment of green cards almost equal to the next three nations combined.
This racist b.s. needs to stop.
As for these green cards only going to people who have been waiting in line, you folks need to sit up and smell the suicide capsule. Why do you folks think the number of illegal aliens hasn’t grown since 2000? Any ideas?
It’s because we are legalizing them as fast as we possibly can.
“Hey, my family had a person come over from another nation, so I think you all should be thrilled to have your nation over-run by illegals and a racially jobbed quota system.”
What a bunch of G D fools.
High Immigration Harms Many American Workers
I know people who obeyed the rules, applied for their green cards legally and waited patiently. Seven to ten years of living through absolute Bureaucrat Hell is generally the norm. That being said it is interesting that so many Mexicans got approved. Supposedly under the rules it is harder for Mexicans to get at Green Card than people from most other countries. (not sure it makes sense to give Pakistanis or Egyptians an easier time than Mexicans). The shift in those numbers would seem to indicate some kind of move towards back-door amnesty
A bogus wage control program. Supply and demand only works for the employer not the employee. A pox on all "captains of industry" that use this program/prosham. Anyone that supports this crock of s h1-bulls&$^ program is unamerican free-traitor.
So is this OK if they take your job and others in your community for less pay?
Yes or no?
You’re from NY? Just like Pelosi.
Ping!
No, unless you have a source for it, that's BS.
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