It is also an opportunity. The Dems will own amnesty, which will be a disaster for the American worker and the middle class. The majority of the American people are against amnesty. In fact, the highest disapproval is among blacks who have been hurt the worst by immigration, legal and illegal.
The problem is with the GOPe which supports amnesty--14 GOP senators signed on to the Gang of 8 bill--because its corporate paymasters want an inexhaustible supply of cheap, exploitable labor. If we had a shortage of labor, wages would be going up, not down. Immigrants are getting most of the jobs, most of them low paying.
What has been disappointing to me has been the lack of the use of immigration and amnesty against the Dems in these campaigns. All of the Dem senators signed on to the Gang of 8 bill, which triples legal immigration over the next decade to 33 million and doubles guest worker programs (skilled workers) to 1.4 million annually. We have 16 to 20 million Americans unemployed or underemployed. Why the flood of new workers when our labor participation rate is the lowest since 1978? We are creating a time bomb that will explode in our cities causing civil unrest. The Reps should be hanging this on the Dems. It is the real way to appeal to minorities.
You are from Georgia. Why isn't Perdue using this against Nunn?
The total number of working-age (16 to 65) immigrants (legal and illegal) holding a job in Georgia increased by 400,000 from the first quarter of 2000 to the first quarter of 2014, while the number of working-age natives with a job declined by 71,000 over the same time frame.
The fact that all the long-term net gain in employment among the working-age went to immigrants is striking because natives accounted for 54 percent of the increase in the total size of the state's working-age population.
In the first quarter of this year, only 64 percent of working-age natives in the state held a job. As recently as 2000, 74 percent of working-age natives in Georgia were working.
