Month: May 2009

NumbersUSA: Obama to push Amnesty this year

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Pushing it fast!  

In his press conference* recognizing his 100th day in office Pres. Barack Obama reaffirmed plans to push amnesty this year. Obama said, “I see the process moving this first year. And I’m going to be moving it as quickly as I can.”

Read about it here at NumbersUSA.    The operating theory is that popular Presidents need to ram as much through in their first year before their popularity fades and that seems to be the principle at work here.   Earlier predictions were that there is no way Obama would be foolish enough to put Amnesty on the table if the economy still stinks, but looks like that concept is now out the window.  

And, heck, you have friends of big business who want to keep labor costs low pushing for an immigration stimulus in the WSJ.

Do you refugee industry folks ever worry that opening up more immigration (which amnesty will surely do) will further hurt your efforts to find employment for refugees?

* A little aside:  Obama is losing audience numbers for his prime time press conferences.  I guess the word is getting out that less people are interested in watching the media swoon and Obama stall, wander and weave.

Sweden: Highest number of rapes of any European country…

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…. high Muslim immigrant population blamed.  From Europe News:

“According to a new study from the Crime Prevention Council, Brå, it is four times more likely that a known rapist is born abroad, compared to persons born in Sweden. Resident aliens from Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia dominate the group of rape suspects. According to these statistics, almost half of all perpetrators are immigrants.”

Read it all.   And, see my earlier post about Muslim immigration killing Sweden, here.

WSJ Opinion piece: we need immigration stimulus

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Gordon Crovitz writing in the Wall Street Journal  this week argued for increased immigration to stimulate the economy.  Frankly his argument makes no sense to me.  If he were arguing for allowing some of the world’s best and brightest, then that makes some sense but he also argues for more unskilled laborers and amnesty for the illegal aliens already here.    Read his whole argument, here.   And consider it in light of yesterday’s post on the CIS study about the very high levels of unemployment among immigrants in the US right now—even the highly educated are not working.

One thing (of many things he said!) that I found puzzling was this comment:

It usually pays to be skeptical about immigration reform, given the alliance between nativists and labor unions for tighter borders. Still, an economic downturn is the right time to move on immigration, one of the few policy tools that could clearly boost growth.

I don’t know what alliance he is talking about, we see labor unions eager to get immigrant labor members.   The SEIU (Service Employees International Union) is organizing Somalis as just one example.