A new study commissioned by the Chicago Urban League and the Alternative Schools Network reveals the negative impacts of illegal immigration on low-skilled American workers, specifically teens and young adults.
What Pres. Obama says -- or doesn't say -- about immigration will be the easiest tip-off to whether his first priority truly is putting Americans back to work. Or whether his talk about jobs is mainly a political ploy to gain back support from Independent voters. Here is what he should say . . .
In an op-ed piece published by the Daily Caller, Rep. Gary Miller criticizes the Administration and Congressional leadership for not doing enough for America's 15 million unemployed. Specifically, Rep. Miller says that the Gutierrez Amnesty bill introduced in the House would "jeopardize millions of jobs for Americans and legal residents."
Democrats can win if they can persuade voters that they have practical ways to put Americans back to work without spending a fortune of taxpayer money. Reductions in legal and illegal immigration fit the bill exactly. And Congressional Republican leaders through their inaction have left the immigration solution available for smart, moderate Democrats to pick up and win with. Any chance that we'll see more Democrats doing that after yesterday's Massachusetts shocker?
The Indiana Senate's Committee on Pensions and Labor will vote Wednesday on SB 213 that would require state agencies and local governments to use E-Verify to check the worker eligibility of all new hires.
Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), who also serves as the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, criticized Pres. Obama's 'catch-and-release' immigration policy after learning of an incident in Massachusetts. The policy of allowing suspected illegal aliens to go back to work keeps jobs away from American workers.
Charles' blog raises even more questions about why the SEIU is fighting so hard for illegal foreign workers while its current union members find it so hard to keep their jobs in the face of foreign labor competition. The SEIU led the way last week in sponsoring the pro-amnesty march in Washington and in attacking NumbersUSA's freedom of speech and mobility.
The jobless rate for December remained at a steady 10%, but 85,000 more jobs were cut during the month. The number of job cuts was higher than expected and a retreat from November's data when 4,000 jobs were created according to the labor department.
My wife liked what I said because she thought I sounded nice and empathetic in conceding that religious leaders are not hard-hearted toward unemployed Americans but just driven more by their compassion for foreign workers (including illegal ones). Others, I'm sure saw me as going a little squishy on the national TV appearance Sunday morning. What I really meant to say was . . .
Roy appeared on Fox & Friends on Jan. 3, 2010 to discuss a new Zogby poll that revealed the differing opinions of church leaders and their followers on immigration issues. For more information, see http://www.numbersusa.com/content/nusablog/beckr/december-28-2009/zogby-poll-finds-few-pew-agree-their-pro-amnesty-religious-leaders-a
Mayor R. Rex Parris of Lancaster, Calif., located about 60 miles north of Los Angeles, is requiring the city's businesses to verify the eligibility of its new hires using E-Verify.
Perhaps the most striking results of a massive new Zogby poll show that while their religious leaders mouth the arguments of the Chamber of Commerce for more cheap foreign labor, the vast majority of church and synagogue members show a strong preference for low-wage and jobless Americans. . . .
Acknowledging that unemployment among Black Americans is agonizingly high, Pres. Obama says it would be inappropriate to do anything aimed just at Blacks. He says he must help Blacks with actions that also help other Americans and that he continues to look for those solutions. Like all people blinded by ideology, Mr. Obama is his own worst enemy in not seeing that reducing overall immigration is in fact a magic solution that meets all his criteria.
California Rep. Gary Miller took a strong stand against Rep. Luis Gutierrez's mass amnesty bill in a statement released earlier this week. Rep. Miller called the sponsors of the bill "misguided" and "out-of-touch" in their policymaking.
Vanderbilt political science professor Carol Swain testified to a Congressional Forum about the negative impacts of America's immigration policies on native-born minorities. Armed with convincing statistics, Prof. Swain discussed the higher-than-normal unemployment rates among America's Black and Hispanic populations and how illegal workers keep lesser-educated Americans from obtaining jobs with a fair wage.
In response to Rep. Gutierrez's introduction of a comprehensive immigration reform bill (H.R. 4321), Rep. Phil Gingrey is calling for a reform plan that would reduce the importation of foreign workers, not increase it like Gutierrez's bill likely would.
Former Virginia Rep. Virgil Goode used an op-ed published on several conservative websites to call for an immigration moratorium. Goode joins NumbersUSA and several Republican Congressmen who made the same call during a Congressional Forum last month.
Judiciary Committee Republicans examined enforcement data and the impact of illegal immigration on American jobs at a forum entitled, "American Jobs in Peril: The Impact of Uncontrolled Immigration."
Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) discussed the impact high immigration levels have on the American workforce and suggests immediate action by Congress to review current policy.
(Courtesy: Center for Immigration Studies)
Judiciary Committee Republicans examined enforcement data and the impact of illegal immigration on American jobs at a forum entitled, "American Jobs in Peril: The Impact of Uncontrolled Immigration."
Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas) discussed the impact high immigration levels have on the American workforce and suggests immediate action by Congress to review current policy.
(Courtesy: Center for Immigration Studies)
"Governments which serve their own people survive and thrive,” said President Obama in Moscow on July 7. He should heed his own advice.
Take a look at the ad we are running with allies to force Congress to look at the 125,000 foreign workers they are bringing in each month to compete with jobless Americans . . .
Judiciary Committee Republicans examined enforcement data and the impact of illegal immigration on American jobs at a forum entitled, "American Jobs in Peril: The Impact of Uncontrolled Immigration."
Ranking Member Lamar Smith (R-Texas) discussed the impact high immigration levels have on the American workforce and suggests immediate action by Congress to review current policy.
(Courtesy: Center for Immigration Studies)
A report from the United States Census Bureau revealed that 1 in every 6 workers in the United States is foreign born. It's the highest proportion since immigration levels were reduced in the 1920s.
In a blog published on his website, Pat Buchanan commented on the fact that immigration was not even considered at last week's Job Summit hosted by the White House. Buchanan said an immigration suspension would have "the most immediate and dramatic impact."
Former House Member and immigration enforcement activist Tom Tancredo has filed the paperwork for a ballot initiative in Colorado that would require businesses to use E-Verify.
For the first time in two years, the unemployment rate dropped, going from 10.2% in October to 10% in November. Despite the drop, the United States still lost more jobs than it created, and as President Obama looks for a low cost solution to the jobs depression, he refuses to consider an immigration suspension.
The SAVE Act received its 100th cosponsor when Rep. Michael Turner (R-Ohio) added his name to the long list. The SAVE Act would make E-Verify mandatory nationwide and increase monitoring of compliance ensuring that only legal workers get jobs during one of the worst jobs depressions in our nation's history.
In a bold, aggressive op-ed today in Politico, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) challenged the sincerity of the President's Jobs Summit today because it is unlikely to look at putting up to 8 million unemployed Americans back to work by removing illegal aliens from their jobs.
Wonder why Washington politicians gathering in Jobs Summits on Thursday show NO interest in pushing illegal aliens out of their jobs in order to put millions of unemployed Americans back to work? A major pro-amnesty coalition has just provided one answer. An article promoted on its website says that illegal aliens are better workers than Americans. If somebody has to be unemployed, it should be the less-desirable American workers who don't have jobs, the article says. Unbelievable? Read on . . .
"So when the federal government has been engaged in enforcement, the boon to American workers has been obvious," says Rep. Steve King of Iowa. The federal government can quickly find jobs for millions of jobless Americans through immigration enforcement, he says: "You don’t have to look any further then when ICE conducted worksite enforcement to see the effects."
Several new reports show that the struggling economy is having a terrible impact on America's Jobless. The news comes at the same time that Rasmussen Reports revealed some troubling survey results. According to a new poll, only 14% of Americans say their company is hiring - the lowest number since February.
Nobel-award winning economist Paul Krugman can't figure it out. So, I doubt that he or any of the other hot-shot business and academic experts at Pres. Obama's jobs summit Thursday will bring up the fact that hundreds of thousands additional Americans could be working a year from now by changing immigration quotas (FOR FREE). I'm just an humble former newspaperman, but if Obama had invited me, here is what I would suggest to him . . .
Don't let anybody tell you that it would violate our immigration traditions for Congress to cut immigration in half or more to help jobless Americans go back to work. Watch this video and spread it around so people can understand our REAL immigration tradition -- by the numbers. Here's the video . . .
Twelve Senators sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano condemning her for her comments to the Center for American Progress earlier this month. Napolitano expressed her desire to legalize 12 million illegal aliens as part of a "comprehensive immigration reform" adding that it would provide a 'boon' to the economy. But the Senators argued an amnesty would hurt America's 16 million unemployed.
I finally got my chance to get a formal hearing before Members of Congress on Thursday for NumbersUSA's year-long argument that U.S. unemployment requires deep, immediate cuts in immigration. I let the key numbers do the talking. Do you know them? Take a look at the top three . . .
In a congressional forum Thursday, NumbersUSA President Roy Beck urged Members of Congress to immediately introduce and pass legislation to suspend most immigration in light of the nation's 10.2% U-3 unemployment rate. Three other experts testified that unemployment among Americans is so bad that there is no doubt that every job emptied by pushing an illegal foreign worker out of it would quickly be filled by an American.
NumbersUSA Founder and President Roy Beck will be testifying on Thursday in front of a Congressional Forum. House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Lamar Smith (R-Texas) called the forum - American Jobs in Peril: The Impact of Uncontrolled Immigration - to explore the relationship between high immigration and unemployment.
CATO Institute's Dan Griswold suggests that the U.S. faces a crisis in filling lower skilled jobs because we aren't producing as many high school dropouts as in the past. Perhaps somebody could explain to him that we have around 2 million native-born high school dropouts who are actively looking for a job and can't find one -- and another 7 million who have dropped out of the job market altogether.
Examples of insanity from just last week that further prove U.S. leaders don't understand the pain of 10.2% unemployment: (a) Sec. of State Clinton went to the Philippines to promise to bring more of its workers to compete with Americans. (b) Top U.S. immigration official Napolitano claims her enforcement is working against illegal immigration and, thus, the nation needs to bring in more foreign workers BECAUSE THE U.S. ECONOMY IS SO BAD! And more . . .
Sandi Zirbel has seen an influx of immigrants on dairy farms in Wisconsin firsthand.
As the co-owner of a 635-cow dairy cooperative in the town of Glenmore, Zirbel said immigrants frequently come looking for work.
Happy Veterans Day. At least, we veterans have our own organization, the American Legion, which does NOT lobby for more foreign workers to take our jobs. But if you own a business, or are in a union, or are a member of a religious organization or a civil rights group, your leaders likely are working every day to give your job to more foreign workers. On this Veterans Day, I have to ask the nation's elites, "Whose side are you on?"
Every month, we get terrible unemployment news. And every month, I must call on Americans to force the nation's elite leaders to answer why they insist on importing 125,000 working-age foreign citizens each month. If you are associated with the following groups, you need to ask your leaders to stop assaulting the unemployed Americans in their membership. SEE THE LIST . . . .
House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Lamar Smith (R-Texas) released a letter that he and 21 other House members sent to President Obama, urging him to increase immigration enforcement efforts to help reduce the 10.2% unemployment rate.
