[cripplecreek]

He called for a temporary-worker program that could make use of that work force in a legal fashion.

I'm really tired of the lie of omission. These clowns keep repeating the "We need a guest worker program" mantra, yet none of them has the courage to acknowledge that we have more of those than ever before. I really have to wonder if they actually have a limit in mind or are they just thinking they can fool us forever.

[kabar]

CIS just released this report: Trends in Immigrant and Native Employment Among the findings:

--Among immigrants who arrived in 2006 or later unemployment is 13.3 percent.

--The number of unemployed immigrants increased 1.3 million (130 percent) since the third quarter of 2007. Among natives the increase was five million (81 percent).

--There is no way to know if the current trend will continue, but these very high unemployment rates for immigrants and natives raises the question of whether it makes sense to continue admitting so many new immigrants. In FY 2008, some 1.45 million new immigrants (temporary and permanent) were given work authorization.

--Unemployment has risen faster among the least educated immigrants. The unemployment rate for immigrants without a high school diploma has increased 9.9 percentage points since the third quarter of 2007 to 14.7 percent in the first quarter of 2009. For natives without a high school diploma it increased 7.9 percentage points to 19.5 percent during the same period.

Right now we are importing more than 120,000 foreign workers a month [1.45 million annually] and many of them are going on to the unemployment rolls. Our immigration policy is not linked to our economic needs. This is a scandal that needs to be exposed.