Huh! Does that make sense to anyone reading this? Record numbers of AMERICANS are out of work and the open borders crowd wants immigration reform now so that illegal aliens are in a better position to keep their jobs.
From the Los Angeles Times:
Religious and labor leaders called upon Congress and President-elect Obama to pass a comprehensive immigration package this year and said that the U.S. economy could not be restored without legalizing the nation’s undocumented immigrants.
“Immigration reform is a necessity in order to fix the American economy,” John Wilhelm, president of Unite Here’s hospitality-industry division, said Thursday during a national teleconference call on immigration reform. The New York-based group represents more than 450,000 workers around the U.S.
Wilhelm said immigration legislation would help the recovery by eliminating exploitation, increasing wages and tax compliance and placing all workers on a level playing field.
You know what really steams me! All this Leftist love and compassion for immigrants when you know they have disdain for the blue collar worker who perhaps lives in Appalachia (or PA!), whose home might be a mobil home, goes to church, hunts on the first day of deer season, is patriotic, and is proud when his kid joins the military. Why don’t these folks deserve the same respect and love showered on the illegal who has broken the law to get into the US?
Numbers USA defends the American worker and is calling for a halt to legal immigration as well!
But anti-illegal immigration advocates urged the U.S. government this week to curtail legal immigration in response to the economic crisis.
“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?”
Get involved with the NumbersUSA campaign here.
See the Numbers film we have permanently linked at the top of RRW, here.
So-called Comprehensive Immigration Reform (S-9) introduced in the Senate, for more go here. This is an open borders website, but it’s good for us to see what they are saying.