Pro- and anti-immigration advocates invoke the economy
"With the federal government reporting continuing giant losses of jobs, it is time to slow the massive importation of workers," Roy Beck, executive director of NumbersUSA, wrote in a letter this week to Obama. "How can it make any sense for the American people's own government to be approving more competitors for a dwindling number of jobs?"http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-immigreform9-2009jan09,0,225463.story