When the man's Right... he's right!
For the last five years, with average household incomes
falling and Americans being pushed out of the workforce, the president has been
engaged in a sustained campaign to strip away Americans’ immigration
protections.
We owe our first obligation to the citizens of this
country, and yet the last year has been consumed by an immigration debate
centered on the needs of immigration lobbyists and politicians.
The ultimate expression of this failure of priorities was
the Senate’s immigration bill.
During a time of low wages, high unemployment, and surging
welfare rolls, the Senate bill doubled the existing and expansive rate of legal
immigrant and guest-worker admissions into the U.S.
The U.S. already has the world’s most generous
immigration policy. The size of the country’s foreign-born population has
quadrupled since 1970. Harvard professor George Borjas estimated that high
immigration rates from 1980 to 2000 resulted in a 7.4% wage reduction for
lower-skilled American workers.
* A 7.4% WAGE REDUCTION HITTING THE MOST VULNERABLE
AMERICANS...
The Center for Immigration Studies issued a study based
on Census data showing that “since 2000 all of the net gain in the number of
working-age (16 to 65) people holding a job has gone to immigrants.”
(*CLAP...CLAP...CLAP*)
Meanwhile, further demonstrating that there is a large
surplus of labor, incomes and wages are down.
(*PURSED LIPS*)
The Wall Street Journal reports that “median household
income was $50,017 in 2012, below 2007’s peak level of $55,627, after adjusting
for inflation, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.”
At the same time, the number of Americans between the
ages of 16 and 65 who are not working has grown to 58 million.
If mass immigration is so good for the economy, why then
— during this long sustained period of record immigration into the U.S. — are
incomes falling and a record number of Americans not working?
On this July Fourth, it is time to focus squarely on the
needs of the American people who have given their blood and sweat to deliver us
this magnificent Republic.
For instance:
Stop promoting amnesty. Instead, send a clear message to
the world: If you attempt to come here unlawfully, you will be sent home. And
send a message to our neighbors in Latin America: If you do not accept
repatriation of your citizens who entered unlawfully, you will not be provided
any more legal-immigrant visas.
* I'D GO BEYOND THAT! I'D HOLD EACH NATION RESPONSIBLE
FOR THE COSTS WE INCUR DEALING WITH THEIR CITIZENS!
Protect the workplace. Protect the jobs and wages of
lawful residents. This can be done by expanding, as previously planned, the
effective and easy-to-use workplace verification tool known as E-Verify, used
to confirm a job applicant’s legal status. Senate Democrats have blocked this
measure.
* SENATE DEMOCRATS HAVE BLOCKED THIS MEASURE...
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
Remove the tax-credit magnet. According to the IRS
inspector general, in 2010 the U.S. improperly paid out $4.2 billion in
taxpayer money to illegal immigrants in the form of the additional child tax
credits — often to support children who are not even living in the United
States.
* AND THIS IS THE GOVERNMENT NOW CONTROLLING NOT JUST THE
VA, BUT BASICALLY THE ENTIRE NATIONAL MEDICAL INFRASTRUCTURE. GREAT JOB,
PEOPLE! CHANT IT WITH ME... O-BAM-A! O-BAM-A! O-BAM-A!
(*MASSAGING MY TEMPLES*)
We can end this practice by simply requiring a valid
Social Security number, as the IRS inspector general has recommended. Senate
Democrats have blocked this measure, too.
(*SPITTING ON THE GROUND*)
Help our unemployed get back to work. With a record 58
million working-age Americans not working, we need to get our people off
unemployment, off welfare, and into good-paying jobs that can support a family.
Doubling the already large and continuing flow of legal immigration, as the
Senate bill proposed, clearly works against this goal.
Create the conditions for rising wages. It is the job of
lawmakers to represent all citizens, not just the denizens of Wall Street and
Silicon Valley, and certainly not the narrow financial interests of
international corporations with facilities spread across the globe. As long as
we provide employers with an ever-increasing supply of low-wage workers from
abroad, American wages are not going to rise. If a job is tough, or difficult,
or in high demand, why shouldn’t wages go up?
Challenge the president’s lawlessness. The president made
clear with his Monday announcement on executive actions that he plans to go
even further in not enforcing America’s immigration laws. Congress simply has
no choice but to use its substantial constitutional powers to confront the
president’s lawlessness. And if the Senate Democratic majority continues to
empower this illegality, then they should be exposed publicly and held to
account for doing so. To violate even further his constitutional requirement to
enforce the law – regardless of what other measures are taken – will ensure
that the border crisis continues.
The immigration vision of President Obama and his
congressional allies provides benefits for various CEOs, amnesty activists, and
the citizens of other countries — but it offers nothing for American citizens
besides lower wages and higher unemployment.
After decades of open immigration and lawless borders, it
has become clear that it is time for a new immigration focus: one centered on
the just and legitimate interests of the American people.
The Americans who bravely fight our wars, dutifully pay
their taxes, and live their whole lives by the rules have every right to expect
and demand that their representatives act faithfully on their behalf. Let that
be our resolve on this July Fourth.
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