December 2009
Obama to Force U.S. Workers to Compete with Aliens for Jobs
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 enying common decency to millions of out-of-work Americans, leaders in the Obama regime announced last month that they will seek to legalize 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens now living in the U.S. who are competing with Americans for a shrinking number of available jobs in the worst recession in 26 years.
In an address to the far left Center for American Progress, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank that has supplied the Obama regime with policy and personnel support, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said President Obama will insist early next year on legislation to overhaul the nation's immigration laws, which will include what she called a "fair pathway to earned legal status" for illegal alien workers in the U.S.
Napolitano's callous call for legalizing millions of illegal workers while as many 15.7 million Americans are out of work came just after the release of government statistics showing that the unemployment rate soared to 10.2 percent in October. When the number of the unemployed is added to the number of full-time workers who have been forced into part-time work, the real unemployment rate climbs to as much as 17.5 percent.
Economc analysts predict that severe unemployment will continue to rise throughout next year when the illegal workers will be invited to stay in the U.S., and perhaps even beyond.
Janet Yellen, president of athe Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco told reporters that any economic recovery will likely be very weak with persistent unemployment.
"With such a slow rebound, uemployment could well stay high for several years to come," she warned.
Writing in the New York Daily News, economist Nouriel Roubini warned, "Conditions in the U.S. labor markets are awful and worsening." He predicted that job monthly job losses, now about 200,000 per month, will continue next year and beyond. "We can expect that job losses will continue until the end of 2010 at the earliest. In other words, if you are unemployed and looking for work and just waiting for the economy to turn the corner, you had better hunker down... The jobs are just not coming back."
The sting of the Obama regime's slap at unemployed Americans was made worse by the revelation that work site arrests of illegal workers has fallen by more than 50 percent during Obama's presidency.
Obama and Napolitano announced back in June that they would cut back on workplace raids, in order to let illegals continue working at their jobs. After one long-planned raid that took place just after Napolitano was sworn in, immigration authorities were ordered to release 27 illegal workers cat an auto parts plant in Washington state. They were then granted work permits in response to complaints from Hispanic advocacy groups that supported Obama's presidential bid.
Rep. Lamar Smith, R-TX, said the latest figures show that Obama has kept his pledge to Hispanic groups to stop workplace raids.
Administrative arrests of violators of immigration laws fell a shocking 68 percent from 2008 to 2009, while criminal arrests fell 60 percent, criminal indictments fell 58 percent, and convictions dropped 63 percent, according to the figures released by Smith.
Some politicians and journalists falsely that immigrants take only the jobs Americans "won't do." But that is contradicted by Census Bureau data showing that most of the jobs people tend to think are occupied by mostly immigrants are in fact dominated by native-born Americans.
An analysis of Census Bureau data by the Center for Immigration Studies shows that maids and housekeepers are 55 percent native-born; taxi drivers, 58 percent native-born; butchers and meat processors, 63 percent native-born; grounds maitenance workers, 65 percent native-born; construction laborers, 65 percent native-born; porters and bellhops, 71 percent native-born; janitors, 75 percent native-born.
At the same time, legal and illegal immigrants are taking good, high-paying jobs from highly-skilled Americans. Census data shows that 34 percent of all software engineers are immigrants, but the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers reports that 48,000 U.S. software engineers are out of work.
"These stolen jobs should be returned to out-of-work citizens," said Smith.
His sentiment was echoed by Robert Goldsborough, president of Americans for Immigration Control, which lobbie Congress for reasonable limits on immigration.
"It is morally reprehensible and completely indefensible that leaders of our own government intend to legalize millions and millions of illegal workers to compete with Americans for jobs. American families are hurting all across the county, and the government should be helping them, not making their lives worse."
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