What we have learned as have the Germans and everyone else, guest workers don't go home. And how many guest workers do we need when 25 million Americans are looking for full time employment?
The Bureau of Labor statistics for August 2011 show a national unemployment rate of 9.1 percent, including 16.7 percent for blacks and 11.3 percent for Hispanics. 25 million Americans are seeking full-time employment. Despite the economic downturn, the U.S. continues to bring in 125,000 new, legal foreign workers A MONTH. This includes new permanent residents (Green Cards) and long-term temporary visas and others who are authorized to take a job. This makes no sense.
Very well said.
>>> And how many guest workers do we need when 25 million Americans are looking for full time employment? >>>
You are joking, right? 25 million looking for employment so hard that they’re spending their time lobbying for 99 weeks of unemployment.
“Despite the economic downturn, the U.S. continues to bring in 125,000 new, legal foreign workers A MONTH. This includes new permanent residents (Green Cards) and long-term temporary visas and others who are authorized to take a job. This makes no sense.”
Exactly.
It’s not just illegal immigration; our legal immigration policy is broken too. We’re being flooded by both. And the immigrants coming in, both illegal and legal, are not top-heavy on the rocket scientist side. We’re importing the third world while wringing our hands that we’re falling behind other industrialized countries.
We have to stop illegal immigration and drastically reduce legal immigration, and choose carefully the types of persons we want to invite into our house.