By Patrick J. Buchanan
At last week’s Job Summit, there was talk of a second stimulus package, of tax credits for small businesses that hire new workers, of an Infrastructure Bank to select national priority public works projects like the Hoover Dam and TVA of yesteryear.
But no one, it seems, advanced the one obvious idea that would have the most immediate and dramatic impact — a moratorium on all immigration into the United States.
Unemployment is at 10 percent, near the postwar high of 1983. Fifteen million Americans are out of work. Ten million more have given up looking or are working fewer hours than they would like.
We have been losing jobs every month for two years.
Why, then, are we still bringing immigrants into the United States at a rate of 125,000 a month to take jobs from fellow Americans and compete with our unemployed for the jobs that open up?
In the last year, 1.5 million new immigrants have come to take up residence and been issued work permits. Probably twice as many jobs have been taken by these folks as the 650,000 the Obamaites claim were saved or created by their $787 billion stimulus package. How do Democrats justify this?
How can they justify bringing in another 1.5 immigrants in 2010 and another 1.5 million in 2011, when 25 million Americans they are supposed to represent are unemployed or underemployed?
If Obama voters feel disillusioned do they not have valid reason?
As for illegal aliens, it is estimated that 8 million still hold jobs in the United States. Endlessly we are told that these hardworking folks are just doing jobs that Americans refuse to do.
But Middle American News has taken a look at the Census Bureau data. In almost all the occupations to which unskilled and semi-skilled illegal aliens gravitate, native-born Americans hold most of the jobs.
U.S. citizens account for well over half of all housekeepers, maids, taxi drivers and chauffeurs in the U.S., almost two-thirds of all the butchers, meat processors and ground maintenance and construction workers, and three-fourths of all porters, bellhops and janitors.
We are told that many if not most of these are “dead-end jobs” Americans do not want or will not take. Yet, how can that be true when American citizens are already doing most of these jobs?
As related here in October, USA Today found that, invariably, when U.S. authorities raid a plant site where hundreds of illegals are working, and send them packing, hundreds of Americans show up and apply for the jobs. Is this not as it should be, if we are looking out for our own people first? And isn’t that what a family does, or should do?
Why, then, is the Obama administration cutting back on jobsite raids and inspections? Why is the administration talking of moving in 2010 to legalize the status of the 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens in the United States?
Is putting illegal aliens on the path to citizenship a higher priority for this Obama crowd than opening up jobs for American workers?
Are the K Street lobbyists whose corporate bosses cannot get enough low-wage labor that powerful? Are the Hispanic lobbies like La Raza and MALDEF, with their charges of “nativist” and “xenophobe,” so intimidating the Democratic Party cannot stand up to them?
Two weeks ago, The Washington Post, focusing on unemployment among young African-American males, wrote, “Joblessness for 16- to 24-year-old black men has reached Great Depression proportions — 34.5 percent in October, more than three times the rate for the general U.S. population.”
More than one-third of all young black males are unemployed.
Which raises a question. Where is the Black Caucus?
Here are folks who favor preferential treatment for their black constituents over white Americans — i.e., affirmative action. But they go mute when it comes to immigrants coming and taking jobs and illegal aliens holding down 8 million of those jobs that could be going to the unemployed in their own community.
Nor is it only working-class Americans who are being shouldered aside by the annual flood tide of immigrants.
As Jerry Woodruff, editor of Middle American News, writes: “Immigrants are taking good, high-paying jobs from highly skilled Americans. The Census Bureau found that 34 percent of all software engineers … are immigrants. Yet, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers reports that 48,000 U.S. software engineers are unemployed.”
If Obama wants to take executive action to assist Americans out looking for work, he could take two strong and effective steps.
First, call on Congress to vote a moratorium on immigration until the unemployment rate falls below 6 percent. Second, instruct Homeland Security and the Justice Department to renew the raids and enforce the law against employers who are taking jobs from Americans by illegally hiring undocumented aliens.
If Obama did that, suddenly folks would sit up and say, as they did after Ronald Reagan busted the air controllers, “This man is serious.”
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Pat asks: “Why, then, are we still bringing immigrants into the United States at a rate of 125,000 a month to take jobs from fellow Americans and compete with our unemployed for the jobs that open up?”
C’com, Pat, snap out of it. Its called the purposeful destruction of the American middle class, of the American Way, of America. It’s called “political correctness” which are the marching orders megaphoned directly into the mainstream of American life by the international bankster cartel, the enemies of America that have captured our power centers, the very enemies that have plagued this country, sometimes successfully, sometime unsuccessfully, since the early 19th century. I’m going to count to three and you will wake up: one – two – THREE.
First there is a typo in the first paragraph…it should read “PUBLIC WORKS” or is Mr Buchanan acussing these Obamaites of making it a national priority of pimping out our son and daughters under street lights.
Mr Buchanan wrote…..
“First, call on Congress to vote a moratorium on immigration until the unemployment rate falls below 6 percent. Second, instruct Homeland Security and the Justice Department to renew the raids and enforce the law against employers who are taking jobs from Americans by illegally hiring undocumented aliens.”
all I can say is AMEN BROTHER
Thanks Trizzy – I made the correction.
Regardless of whether the international bankster cartel, as Thomas suggests, is ultimately responsible for our destructive mass immigration or whether it is due to something else, the question remains as to why the American people are so complacent and/or cowardly in allowing it to continue. I don’t think Pat is the one sleeping on this as he has been sounding a warning for a long time, but rather the ordinary Joe American people. And, they are not really asleep as the majority recognize what is happening and don’t like it, but are generally too intimidated or discouraged to stand up and demand it be stopped.
I do from time to time ponder how this nation could have gone from the time of the 1965 Immigration Act which could only be passed by promising that millions of immigrants wouldn’t be flowing into our cities annually to today where we accept as normal and even required that millions flow into our cities annually. Political correctness is the primary weapon (of mass destruction?) being used to defeat us (U.S.), but why it is so effective and who is wielding it exactly is much more enigmatic.
I see, rather than international bankers so much, the growth of what we might call power-liberals who continue to magnify their own egos and find a cheap way of gaining power by giving away what isn’t theirs to those who don’t have any particular claim to it. Classical liberals seek truth and rationality; power-liberals seek power via lies and intimidation with complete disregard for the long-term consequences of their short-term power grab. Of course, plain old cheap labor folks, citizenship for a vote politicians, La Raza first and foremost type ethnic lobbies, communists wanting to own and control the means of production, a few genuine humanitarians, some churches wanting more influence, and perhaps the bankers are all part of the mix as well.
The point being, I guess, is to throw off the yoke of political correctness and demand that the issue itself be debated rather than always succumbing to defending against irrelevant, often inaccurate, and usually unwarranted name calling and labeling. And that leads to, IMO, the conclusion that enough is enough as we have already had too much, i.e. an immigration moratorium as Pat suggests. This nation has lost it’s continuity, cohesion, and vision; not to mention impending resource scarcity, environmental degradation, unaffordable essentials, low wages, and lack of jobs. A house in shambles will not stand as somebody sort of said.
Excellent article Pat……. and Thomas, your post is right on as usual. I can only echo some of your thoughts.
To place our workers fourth or fifth on a list, those who have suffered loss of wealth, dignity and a future and to provide comfort and gain to legal and illegal immigrants in the face of economic disaster suffered by so many is unconscionable.
To further outrage the people with radical healthcare reform and other administration priorities over job creation will break the back of America and increase our financial woes considerably over time.
The message I receive at this point, is downgrade the middle class so that it equals the spending power or lack of it of other countries and change our way of life for the good of the global society. The wealthy will rule and make the decisions.
Seemingly, no greater enemies does this country have than those to be found in the present and last administration. The influence of those liberal elitists and evil manipulators inside and outside of our own shores, may level the playing field and achieve their long desired “social” objectives for the world.
The question is…Will we let this happen??.
FRAN: “To further outrage the people with radical healthcare reform and other administration priorities over job creation will break the back of America and increase our financial woes considerably over time.”
Yes, they are applying excessive pressure on the back of America with the ultimate intention of breaking it. But the back is not an easy structure to break; it requires great force. A kick to the head will distract the monster to relieve some pressure, but the respite will not last long unless additional blows, to the legs and stomach (Climate-Gate), are given. This thing is an octopus, and always has been.
RichardS — you may not know it but I know it, and so should you by now. See
We “Southerners” had our “Reconstruction” starting in 1865, then went on steroids in the 1960’s……………No sympathy from the balance of the country at all?
Are yall enjoying your “Reconstruction”?……..The New England Elites intend to ruin the entire nation before it’s over…..Might want to brush up on those old marxism courses?
Or, you could require that immigrants must buy a house before they come and have a bank account with $100k in it. This weeds out the unqualified ones from the 1.5 mill, and boost home values and lowers immigrant numbers. It would be a huge transfer of wealth back here. Double win.
The thing that annoys me the most is the unqualified ones coming here and just slurping up all the public benefits that I paid for with my taxes. I pay for my groceries and watch as the person that doesn’t speak english well, using his food stamps to buy steak. WTF? I pay for my health insurance and hospital copayments, and they go in free of charge. Again, WTF?? Let them come, but FFS, let them pull their own weight!
Not all Americans are complacent: some are willing to do things. The problem is that most of them are doing the wrong things or are doing things the wrong way. Some Americans, for instance, are willing to go out and wave loopy signs despite the fact that they’re being useful idiots for questionable Beltway insiders and those with extreme ideologies and despite the fact that waving loopy signs is just a cheap, anti-intellectual stunt.
Meanwhile, for almost three years, I’ve been trying to get others to promote a smarter, more effective plan and I’ve gotten almost zero help with it. If you do a find for “Napolitano” at that page, you’ll see me trying to get people to go to one of her appearances and ask her about something relating to the topic of this post; I got no help with that.
If you want to do something about this, help promote that plan. And, if you see someone promoting other, less effective plans like waving loopy signs, call them on it.
While I agree with you about uneducated immigrants, I disagree on skilled workers and professionals in short supply in the USA.
One of my phyicians is from India. She is bright, well educated and did her residency and fellowship at Westchester County Medical Center. For several years, she was required by her visa to practice in a medically underserved area.
She saved my life. Enough said.
One reason is this- the ‘culture’ since the 60s has progressively degraded the neurologocal development of a large swath of Americans- TV,more TV, more mouth, mindless consumerism, and the big one- permanent brain damage from drug abuse. Mexican laborers work non stop and are very good at what they do. A Northern Virginia homebuilder told me around 2000 there wouldn’t be a homebuilding industry in northern Virginia without the Mexicans.
But in very skilled professions such as enginnering, medicine and IT, more foreigners are needed as the replacements for the home growns apparently aren’t available in adequate numbers.
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The Programmers Guild supports Mr. Buchanan’s call for a suspension in skilled immigrant immigration.
I disagree with those posting about a “shortage” of engineers – check your Sunday newspaper – the only jobs are PERM sham ads for greencards. See http://www.programmersguild.org/RIR/
American tech workers are being displaced by this flood of foreign workers. We have learned of yet another suicide triggered by an American, Stu Storey, being forced to train his H-1b replacement then laid off. See our Facebook for info: http://tiny.cc/PGFACE.
H-1b foreign workers are generally NOT the “best and brightest.” Industry likes them because they are indentured servant labor – they can only work for the employer who sponsors them – and if they quit or are terminated they must return to (typically) India within 30 days.
The largest employers of H-1b are Indian consulting firms (Infosys, TATA). By paying wages 25% below what they would need to pay Americans, they can underbid U.S. consulting firms for contracts, harming both U.S. workers and U.S. firms. They then take the work back to India, contributing to our trade and budget deficit.
Wage Reference: http://programmersguild.blogspot.com/2007/05/india-now-denies-their-prior-admission.html
Sincerely,
Mr. Kim Berry
President of http://www.ProgrammersGuild.org
Another example of government catering to big business. The foreign workers will accept anywhere from $ 20,000.00 to $ 30,000.00 a year less than prevailing American wages.
Incumbents are our enemy!