Day: February 16, 2010

Center for Immigration Studies Report: H-2B visa holders take American jobs and refugee jobs

~ Ann Corcoran

Well, they don’t specifically say “refugee” jobs, but they do report that other legal immigrants are getting booted out of traditional so-called “dirty work” jobs by the millions of H-2B visa holders admitted to the US each year.   Check out this new report released today by CIS.

Americans don’t want to mow your lawn. They don’t want to serve you your lobster roll sandwich during your summer holiday in Maine. They won’t drive the trucks that bring food to the grocery store you shop in, or chop down the trees that produce the paper you use, or perform at the circus you attend every summer. You’ll also need the helping hand of a “temporary, seasonal” guestworker to help you get on the chair lift in Vail, and to learn how to ski or snowboard. Nor will Americans guard your swim club’s pool, shovel the snow in your driveway, operate the rides at the amusement park you take your kids to, tidy up the hotel room you sleep in, or process the seafood you eat. Americans can’t even be counted on to coach sports, or work construction jobs. American workers have grown soft, young people don’t want to work, and the unemployed don’t want to do much of anything strenuous these days.

These are the kind of flawed assumptions that have led to the creation and rapid growth of the H-2B visa program, which has resulted in more half a million jobs being filled by foreign guestworkers over the last five years, rather than Americans and immigrants already in the United States.

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The goal of this report is to shed light on the poor conditions that H-2B guestworkers often toil in; to expose the damage that this program does to the most vulnerable sector of American workers: the poorly educated, students, minorities, and legal immigrants; to examine the recruiters who find workers and the employers who hire them; and to scrutinize the government’s role in sanctioning and managing the H-2B bureaucracy.

Read the whole report.  Considering that estimates of the unemployed refugee population in the US are about 50% unemployed, shouldn’t advocates of refugee resettlement be causing a ruckus over this information?

Two Obama Administration documents about refugees you should know about

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The first document we told you about here is a submission to Congress when Obama set the ceiling for refugee admissions for FY2010.  Read my earlier post and then check out the document here.

The second document, hat tip Susan, is a 2010 report to Congress also from the State Department about Refugee Assistance and Emergency Migration funding, here.

Note, this post is archived in our ‘where to find information’ category.

Anti-jihad conference in conjunction with CPAC

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Update February 21st:  Judy attended and wrote a review of the conference here.

Update February 19th:  I’ve heard first hand from attendees that the event was excellent.  However, Lawrence Auster makes some good points here about the squishiness of most to address the Muslim immigration question.

Update February 17th:  CAIR tries to kill this event!  Read all about it!

CPAC is the Conservative Political Action Committee that will be holding its annual gathering of Conservatives in Washington this week.  Check out their schedule of speakers and other events here.

Just as last year when Judy and I attended the event with Geert Wilders ( here and here are posts on that controversial event), it seems that anything to do with Islamic supremacism is always a side event for the inside-the-beltway Conservatives who make the decisions about CPAC’s agenda.

It’s not too late, if  you are in the DC area, to get to this important seminar on Islamic Jihad put on by a new group led by two of our favorite bloggers, Pamela Geller (Atlas Shrugs) and Robert Spencer (Jihad Watch), called the Freedom Defense Initiative.  Here is what they say in their recent press announcement:

The conference is designed to educate Americans about the Muslim Brotherhood’s infiltration at the highest levels of the U.S. government, as well as its war on free speech: its attempt to silence and discredit those who speak up against the jihad and Sharia encroachment in the West. Emphasis will be on the international character of the jihad against the West and on how the Islamic war on free speech (and the media’s self-imposed blackout on this issue, as in the Fort Hood massacre) is part and parcel of the same jihad against the West that terrorists are pursuing by violent means.

Go to the press release and check out the great list of speakers that you would not find in one place if it weren’t for the hard work of Spencer and Geller.  Note you must register in advance for this February 19th event!

Update:  Judy just sent me this link to an American Thinker article by Geller and Spencer with further clarification, including this:

This conference will be held at the Mariott Wardman Park Hotel, the site of CPAC, on February 19, from 10AM to noon. It is at the site of CPAC, but it is an independent event supplying the crucial information that the mainstream media (as well as the conservative establishment) ignores. We chose CPAC because it is the largest gathering of conservatives across America, and so it is the most appropriate place to end the near-universal silence about the true nature and magnitude of the jihad threat against our nation.

Federal Regulations for public welfare for refugees and refugee programs

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I was looking for something else just now and was reminded that we previously posted the Code of Federal Regulations link for the Public Welfare section of the Immigration and Nationality Act as it relates to refugees.   You can find those regulations here.

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