We are told that many if not most of these are “dead-end jobs”Americans do not want or will not take. Yet, how can that be true whenAmerican citizens are already doing most of these jobs?
At last week’s Job Summit, there was talk of a second stimuluspackage, of tax credits for small businesses that hire new workers, ofan Infrastructure Bank to select national priority public worksprojects like the Hoover Dam and TVA of yesteryear.
But no one, it seems, advanced the one obvious idea that would have themost immediate and dramatic impact — a moratorium on all immigrationinto the United States.
Unemployment is at 10 percent, near the postwar high of 1983.Fifteen million Americans are out of work. Ten million more have givenup looking or are working fewer hours than they would like.
We have been losing jobs every month for two years.
Why, then, are we still bringing immigrants into the United Statesat a rate of 125,000 a month to take jobs from fellow Americans andcompete with our unemployed for the jobs that open up?
In the last year, 1.5 million new immigrants have come to take upresidence and been issued work permits. Probably twice as many jobshave been taken by these folks as the 650,000 the Obamaites claim weresaved or created by their $787 billion stimulus package. How doDemocrats justify this?
How can they justify bringing in another 1.5 immigrants in 2010 andanother 1.5 million in 2011, when 25 million Americans they aresupposed to represent are unemployed or underemployed?
If Obama voters feel disillusioned do they not have valid reason?
As for illegal aliens, it is estimated that 8 million still holdjobs in the United States. Endlessly we are told that these hardworkingfolks are just doing jobs that Americans refuse to do.
But Middle American News has taken a look at the Census Bureau data.In almost all the occupations to which unskilled and semi-skilledillegal aliens gravitate, native-born Americans hold most of the jobs.
U.S. citizens account for well over half of all housekeepers, maids,taxi drivers and chauffeurs in the U.S., almost two-thirds of all thebutchers, meat processors and ground maintenance and constructionworkers, and three-fourths of all porters, bellhops and janitors.
We are told that many if not most of these are “dead-end jobs”Americans do not want or will not take. Yet, how can that be true whenAmerican citizens are already doing most of these jobs?
As related here in October, USA Today found that, invariably, whenU.S. authorities raid a plant site where hundreds of illegals areworking, and send them packing, hundreds of Americans show up and applyfor the jobs. Is this not as it should be, if we are looking out forour own people first? And isn’t that what a family does, or should do?
Why, then, is the Obama administration cutting back on jobsite raidsand inspections? Why is the administration talking of moving in 2010 tolegalize the status of the 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens inthe United States?
Is putting illegal aliens on the path to citizenship a higherpriority for this Obama crowd than opening up jobs for American workers?
Are the K Street lobbyists whose corporate bosses cannot get enoughlow-wage labor that powerful? Are the Hispanic lobbies like La Raza andMALDEF, with their charges of “nativist” and “xenophobe,” sointimidating the Democratic Party cannot stand up to them?
Two weeks ago, The Washington Post, focusing on unemployment amongyoung African-American males, wrote, “Joblessness for 16- to24-year-old black men has reached Great Depression proportions — 34.5percent in October, more than three times the rate for the general U.S.population.”
More than one-third of all young black males are unemployed.
Which raises a question. Where is the Black Caucus?
Here are folks who favor preferential treatment for their blackconstituents over white Americans — i.e., affirmative action. But theygo mute when it comes to immigrants coming and taking jobs and illegalaliens holding down 8 million of those jobs that could be going to theunemployed in their own community.
Nor is it only working-class Americans who are being shouldered aside by the annual flood tide of immigrants.
As Jerry Woodruff, editor of Middle American News, writes:“Immigrants are taking good, high-paying jobs from highly skilledAmericans. The Census Bureau found that 34 percent of all softwareengineers … are immigrants. Yet, the Institute of Electrical andElectronic Engineers reports that 48,000 U.S. software engineers areunemployed.”
If Obama wants to take executive action to assist Americans out looking for work, he could take two strong and effective steps.
First, call on Congress to vote a moratorium on immigration untilthe unemployment rate falls below 6 percent. Second, instruct HomelandSecurity and the Justice Department to renew the raids and enforce thelaw against employers who are taking jobs from Americans by illegallyhiring undocumented aliens.
If Obama did that, suddenly folks would sit up and say, as they didafter Ronald Reagan busted the air controllers, “This man is serious.”