Posted on 04/28/2015 1:35:36 PM PDT by Kaslin
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Iowa staged a big show-and-tell for nine 2016 presidential candidates last week. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker seems to be the only one who talked about a growing issue at the grassroots: how American jobs and wages are adversely affected by Obama's immigration policies.
The argument that immigrants do jobs that Americans won't do is as phony as a $3 bill. As Thomas Sowell pointed out, "Virtually every kind of 'work that Americans will not do' is in fact work that Americans have done for generations," and "most of the people doing that work today are Americans."
The United States gives permanent legal resident status (called a green card, which means lifetime residency plus the option of citizenship) to about one million people a year. In addition, the U.S. gives out half a million student and exchange visas, admission tickets to tens of thousands of aliens claiming to be refugees and 700,000 visas to temporary workers and their families.
After a speech in Cedar Rapids, Walker answered a question by saying he would make sure that our "legal immigration system is based on making our No.1 priority to protect American workers and their wages." That's music to the ears of the grassroots, but Walker seems to be the only candidate who gets it.
It was at least the third time this month that Walker had made the same point, using almost identical language. This time, in response to a questioner, Walker stressed, "I don't know how anyone can argue against that."
If you notice, the critics of Walker's immigration remarks don't address or try to refute his facts, but instead seem offended that he connected jobs and wages to immigration. In fact, the numbers are compelling.
According to a new report from the Congressional Research Service, the U.S. has admitted 51 million immigrants in the last eight years, and, as immigration expanded, the incomes of the bottom 90 percent of Americans dropped and then went flat. Republicans will be the big losers in 2016 in the face of headlines such as: "Middle class incomes drop as immigration surges."
Despite these numbers, the big corporations are demanding the right to bring in even more foreign labor. Just last Friday, a group of corporations invited senators to a closed-to-the-press briefing dedicated to "improving" the H-1B program by tripling the number of visas. As Rutgers professor Hal Salzman pointed out, that would enable the tech industry to fill 100 percent of its job openings with people brought in from China and India.
You have to watch the language and the choice of words. "Comprehensive immigration reform" means giving citizenship to the estimated 12 million illegal aliens now living in the United States.
I think everyone admitted to the U.S. should be informed at the border that you can never become an American citizen unless you swear a solemn oath to "support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic ... and that (you) take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help (you) God."
Americans not in the labor force now exceed 93 million for the first time. With a labor force participation of 62.7 percent, we are at a 37-year low, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Today we have a record 12.2 million black Americans who are not in the labor force. For black teens age 16 to 19, unemployment is a whopping 25 percent, which means that 1 in 4 black teens does not have a job and is actively seeking one.
According to former Cincinnati Mayor Ken Blackwell, Obama's giving work permits to millions of illegal aliens is an unlawful attack on American workers at every skill level. Yet, Obama reassured the aliens: "All we're saying is we're not going to deport you."
Some in Congress are starting to talk about reforming Social Security. But no one is addressing the financial burden that Obama's 2012 executive amnesty caused the Social Security administration to issue 541,000 Social Security numbers to illegal aliens.
White House spokesmen telephoned friendly companies and assured them his immigration policies "would make it easier for them to retain foreign workers." But the public was fed a different line: Obama claimed foreign workers would not compete for existing jobs because they would be creating new "jobs, businesses and industries right here in America."
Good one.
The immigration issue is about jobs, and the illegal alien amnesty issue is about the rule of law and those politicians who want to reward people who broke US laws.
Does the author really mean ‘student exchange visas” or college level ‘student visas?’ The student exchange program is for high school students to temporarily swap places with peers in other countries. I doubt there are 0.5 million of them.
it’s good that Schlafly and Sessions are focusing on the economic argument. It’s the only one that is emotionally neutral.
But the real reasons to oppose both legal and illegal immigration are the numbers - we have never had these kinds of numbers before, and certainly not from nations we have had wars over territory with like Mexico.
No rational nation allows itself to be overrun, and history didn’t end: they still don’t like us, they believe it’s their land to take back, and they don’t plan on assimilating. The fact that they have to come here for jobs they don’t blame on their own systems; they blame us and say we took all the resources.
Never mind that Mexico as well as all of Central and South America are swimming in oil and mineral wealth, as well as arable land.
We can assimilate almost anyone...in small doses.
But it won’t be America when it’s ethnically Mexico.
And if we “need” more population, shouldn’t we make it easier to have large families again?
That would come under the jobs heading...as in, they have to support such things.
We can vote to make it that way. The economy is supposed to exist for us, not the other way around.
Wow, 30 years on and the lightbulb is starting to come on. Thanks Scott Walker.
“Jobs Americans won’t do” means “Jobs Americans won’t do at the wages we want to pay”.
Answer is simple: 1. make it illegal to hire an illegal Alien—(without a green card). Anyone who does this will be arrested and serve 15 years in labor farm and have their house, cars and good stripped from them.
2. All illegal Aliens caught in the commission of any crime (like driving drunk—beating wife—doing dope) will be sentenced to 10 years in the Labor Farms.
3. federal labor Farms to be set up all over nation to make cheap cloth, cheap furnishings, grow crops for military, and dig cannals and levees. (They would be paid 20 cents an hour—to be given to them when released)
4. All Aliens would be elegible to serve in the armed forces—after 6 years—they would be granted citizenship with honorable discharge.
5. New Branch of the military—The Border Guard— to just guard the borders with Mexico — and build a wall! Maybe the 8th Wonder of the world—with towers, cannons, machine gun pill boxes. Something to rival Hitler’s Atlantic Wall fortifications. Seal the border AIRTIGHT>!
Republicans will be the big losers in 2016 in the face of headlines such as: "Middle class incomes drop as immigration surges."
Despite these numbers, the big corporations are demanding the right to bring in even more foreign labor. Just last Friday, a group of corporations invited senators to a closed-to-the-press briefing dedicated to "improving" the H-1B program by tripling the number of visas. As Rutgers professor Hal Salzman pointed out, that would enable the tech industry to fill 100 percent of its job openings with people brought in from China and India.
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