Obama to Make “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” a Priority This Year
The official unemployment rate for March hovered around 8.5%!
-663,000 U.S. jobs were eliminated.
-There are now 13.2 million Americans looking for a job who can’t find even a part-time job.
-Yet, many of the nation’s richest foundations, most prestigious newspapers and top elected officials continue to call for an increase in foreign workers.
Numbersusa uses calculations based on the most recent government data estimate that the feds gave out. 138,000 permanent work permits (green cards for immigrants) and new temporary work permits (for temporary workers) to foreigners were given out during the month of March. That makes around 400,000 foreign workers during this new year of the new Administration and new Congress, which are acting just like the last Administration in callousness. You would think we had a jobs surplus and a worker shortage in this country with the way the feds behave.
Unemployment rate estimates are expected to increase from 8.5% and the “stimulus job creation” touted by the democrats from their pay-to-play recovery act will be canceled out (if there even was a real job stimulus from it in the first place) due to massive immigration reform such as what Obama is proposing.
Numberusa also has a great article about the stimulus and what it really means, if anything at all with the number of illegals coming in and becoming workers and if amnesty occurs what they will do to the job rate in the United States during a recession as well as the fact that the United States is no longer a producing country – we don’t have tons of jobs to give away – our country is now a service provider!
Here is what the Obama Administration would like to do this year (yet another priority)- they aren’t letting a good crisis go to waste:
While acknowledging that the recession makes the political battle more difficult, President Barack Obama plans to begin addressing America’s immigration system this year, including looking for a path for illegal immigrants to become legal, a senior administration official said Wednesday.
Obama will frame the new effort — likely to rouse passions on all sides of the highly divisive issue — as “policy reform that controls immigration and makes it an orderly system,” said the official, Cecilia Munoz, deputy assistant to the president and director of intergovernmental affairs in the White House.
Obama plans to speak publicly about the issue in May, administration officials said, and over the summer he will convene working groups, including lawmakers from both parties and a range of immigration organizations, to begin discussing possible legislation for as early as this fall.
Some White House officials said immigration would not take precedence over the health care and energy proposals that Obama has identified as priorities. But the timetable is consistent with pledges that Obama made to Latino groups in last year’s campaign.
He said then that comprehensive immigration legislation, including a plan to make legal status possible for an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants, would be a priority in his first year in office. Latino voters turned out strongly for Obama in the election.
Yet another shining example of how the Democrats and the Obama Administration do not believe in punishment or discipline when it comes to those who have broken the law or made bad decisions…
But with the economy seriously ailing, advocates on different sides of the debate said immigration could become a polarizing issue for Obama in a year when he has many other major battles to fight.
The White House is calculating that public support for fixing the immigration system, which is widely acknowledged to be broken, will outweigh opposition from voters who argue that immigrants take jobs from Americans. A groundswell among voters opposed to legal status for illegal immigrants led to the defeat in 2007 of a bipartisan immigration bill that was strongly supported by President George W. Bush.
Administration officials said Obama’s plan would not add new workers to the American work force, but that it would recognize millions of illegal immigrants who have already been working in the United States.
I know a lot of moderate Democrats who are also against the idea of “comprehensive immigration reform.” Just like the Freedom of Choice Act or Card Check – they have nice little names that mislead you into thinking that they are good policies. This, however, is just a cover up for allowing illegals to get rights and citizenship without suffering the consequences (like being arrested or deported) for entering a country illegally and working here without paying income taxes etc.
Opponents of legalization legislation were incredulous at the idea that Obama would take on immigration when economic pain for Americans is so widespread.
Obama could care less about people – he cares about himself, his ideology and his policies – he only wants to pass an agenda no matter who is hurts or destroys along the way – like American workers and American jobs.
This is just another power grab so liberals can have a majority for years to come. This, along with the census, health-care and education will tie down generations of Americans to the government and make them dependent on a power-hungry Washington, D.C.
