1. "'President Obama said this week that his health care plan won't cover illegal immigrants, but argued that's all the more reason to legalize them and ensure they eventually do get coverage." http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/18/obama-ties-immigration-to-health-care-battle/?feat=home_cube_position1
2. "we seem to still rely on the creativity and competence of politicians to solve problems, which always somehow seem to be tied in with which lobby is the strongest in Washington." http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=218
3. Who is lobbying for amnesty? Large corporations who want the cheap labor subsidised by the American taxpayer. http://www.numbersusa.org/ (At that link you will find that the Chamber is one of the biggest lobbyists for Amnesty...you will find out about many other interesting things as well)
Illegals and H1 B visa workers (outsourced workers too) are doing the work Americans once did for as much as one half to one third of the wage once paid. Once amnesty is achieved do you really think illegal immigration will suddenly stop? Now that we have several hundred applying for the same job, many legal American workers are complaining that their wages are much lower, and they are not paid overtime anymore ("bosses saying you should have finished in eight hours"). Fear of loosing their job makes them think twice before complaining. We are being whipped into submission as we are considered too "arrogant". One can read more about this at the following link (article by Chuck Baldwin on the goals for the North American Union/ NAFTA): http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=220
You will likely find this article very interesting too: "Fiorina's statement that "there is no job that is America's God-given right anymore" triggered particularly strong reaction. The pair spoke in Washington representing the Computer Systems Policy Project, a group of eight chief executives from the nation's top information technology firms. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/01/09/MNG6C46T0M1.DTL
Showing posts with label American workers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label American workers. Show all posts
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Obama Ready to Announce His Surrender to Big Business Lobby and Gut Workplace Verification?
Obama Ready to Announce His Surrender to Big Business Lobby and Gut Workplace Verification? Numbers USA
http://www.numbersusa.com/content/nusablog/beckr/june-11-2009/obama-ready-announce-his-surrender-big-business-lobby-and-gut-workplace-?jid=166109&lid=9&rid=1674&tid=814673
http://www.numbersusa.com/content/nusablog/beckr/june-11-2009/obama-ready-announce-his-surrender-big-business-lobby-and-gut-workplace-?jid=166109&lid=9&rid=1674&tid=814673
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Clergy look the other way while children abused. Child Labor
The intellectual bankruptcy and juvenile morality of trendy open-borders clergy is on an embarrassing public display during events marking the first anniversary of ICE raids of the Postville, Iowa kosher meatpacking plant.
Many of these are the same clergy who remained silent for years as the meatpacking plant physically endangered its workers and violated child laborers.
Like silent witnesses to pedophilia, these clergy were voiceless for years while the meatpacker workers -- especially children -- were chewed up by an immoral corporation. Now these clergy have the shameless audacity to blame immigration laws for the collapse of the business and the misery of the workers.
Lutheran, Catholic and United Methodist leaders say the lesson of Postville is that Congress should provide an amnesty to 12-20 million illegal foreign workers and dependents. In effect, they seem to want to make sure that unemployed U.S. workers don't get a crack at the estimated 8.3 million jobs the illegal workers currently hold.
IMMIGRATION LAWS ARE 'FOOLISH,' SAY CLERICS
The open-borders religious leaders say enforcement of immigration laws is "foolish."
Immigration raids are foolish. They traumatize families andchildren. They break families apart. We need a policy that treatspeople with dignity and justice.
-- Rev. Steven P. Brackett, pastor of St. Paul Lutheran Church, Postville
That means immigration laws are foolish. By extension, I suppose these religious leaders believe it to be foolish to protect vulnerable U.S. workers from the free movement of tens of millions of foriegn workers who would surely move to the U.S. and bid down wages and working conditions if the clerics got their wish of open immigration.
For a year, open-borders clerics around the country have used the Postville Raid as a pulpit to proclaim that illegal workers only do jobs that Americans won't do.
In the case of the Postville Kosher plant, that almost is true.
The Kosher management treated its workers so badly in terms of pay, working conditions, safety and benefits, that it would have been difficult to find U.S. citizens who would have put up with the job.
IMMIGRATION VIOLATIONS AREN'T WHAT COLLAPSED THE CORPORATION
In fact, it was the company's violation of safety, wage and child labor laws -- as well as potentially criminal fiscal management -- that led to the company shutting down, spreading economic hardship over the entire community.
Open-borders advocates constantly claim that it was the immigration raid that caused the shutdown. But that is not true. The company -- after improving the compensation package -- was actually able to quickly find legal workers and ship them into town after ICE removed all the illegal foreign workers.
I told newspaper reporters Thursday that even if there had been no immigration enforcement at all, the Kosher plant would have been in big trouble based only on safety, wage and child labor violations. We constantly hear politicians who oppose immigration enforcement say they want to see aggressive safety and wage enforcement. So do I. And if you get that kind of enforcement, you will see lots of businesses that hire illegal aliens in big trouble, because most of them break all kinds of laws other than immigration.
POSTVILLE PAIN WOULD HAVE BEEN PREVENTED BY EARLIER ENFORCEMENT
I was asked if I feel sorry for the community around Postville based on the economic suffering of losing its biggest employer. My answer is yes. But I note that the clerics preaching against law enforcement seem to be suggesting that we should allow corporations to continue to mistreat their workers because making them follow the law might cause collateral economic pain.
I ask the archbishops and bishops: Should we stop enforcing child labor laws because some community has become dependent on a plant that abuses child workers?
The problem for Postville is not that immigration and labor laws were enforced but that they were enforced too late.
If the Bush Administration had been serious about safety, labor and immigration enforcement earlier, conditions would not have gotten nearly so bad. Adjustments could have been made without the corporation collapsing. But by the time the feds got involved, the Kosher management had so corrupted the whole operation there really wasn't anything left to save. The business was rancid.
LET THE CLERGY EXPLAIN THEIR COMPLICITY IN LABOR ATROCITIES
I have another question for all the preachers, priests, nuns and religious social workers who are so eager for their moments of fame in the national press by declaring it immoral to arrest workers who illegally enter the country and take jobs from U.S. citizens:
How do you explain your silence over the last several years about the incredible mistreatment of workers -- including children -- at the Postville plant? Especially those of you who lived in the community. How were you able to just turn away from the grievous behavior of the employers? Why didn't you report the criminal activities to the government?
There is no way in a small community that you could have been unaware of what was going on. How do you justify your complicity with the sinful practices of the managers of that plant?
READERS, HELP YOUR OWN RELIGIOUS LEADERS
The callous immorality of open-borders theology is beginning to infect local pastors.
I request all of you readers to make sure your own pastor is aware of the solid morality of immigration laws in preventing powerful economic interesests from mistreating the most vulnerable members of our community.
Your pastors are constantly propagandized by denominational publications and leaders who suggest that immigration laws are immoral because they don't follow the Scripture's commandment to not mistreat the stranger. You don't have to convince your pastor that our position is right as much as you need to convince that the issue is more complex than stating that every stranger should be given amnesty, a job and citizenship.
You should also let your pastors know that millions of dollars have been donated by foundations to organizations to help persuade denominations to endorse amnesty and to side against unemployed U.S. workers in favor of illegal foreign workers getting jobs.
Please don't be combative with your pastor. Share your concerns sincerely and calmly. I have been around clergy all of my life -- and I talked with hundreds of them during my days reporting on religion. I can attest that most clergy are sincere compassionate people who would never deliberately show a hardened heart to the families in their community that are suffering from unemployment or the threat of joblessness. But they need to understand that illegal immigration is not a victimless crime. Millions of U.S. citizens are out of work today because 8.3 million illegal foreign workers are allowed to hold their jobs.
ROY BECK is Founder & CEO of NumbersUSA
Many of these are the same clergy who remained silent for years as the meatpacking plant physically endangered its workers and violated child laborers.
Like silent witnesses to pedophilia, these clergy were voiceless for years while the meatpacker workers -- especially children -- were chewed up by an immoral corporation. Now these clergy have the shameless audacity to blame immigration laws for the collapse of the business and the misery of the workers.
Lutheran, Catholic and United Methodist leaders say the lesson of Postville is that Congress should provide an amnesty to 12-20 million illegal foreign workers and dependents. In effect, they seem to want to make sure that unemployed U.S. workers don't get a crack at the estimated 8.3 million jobs the illegal workers currently hold.
IMMIGRATION LAWS ARE 'FOOLISH,' SAY CLERICS
The open-borders religious leaders say enforcement of immigration laws is "foolish."
Immigration raids are foolish. They traumatize families andchildren. They break families apart. We need a policy that treatspeople with dignity and justice.
-- Rev. Steven P. Brackett, pastor of St. Paul Lutheran Church, Postville
That means immigration laws are foolish. By extension, I suppose these religious leaders believe it to be foolish to protect vulnerable U.S. workers from the free movement of tens of millions of foriegn workers who would surely move to the U.S. and bid down wages and working conditions if the clerics got their wish of open immigration.
For a year, open-borders clerics around the country have used the Postville Raid as a pulpit to proclaim that illegal workers only do jobs that Americans won't do.
In the case of the Postville Kosher plant, that almost is true.
The Kosher management treated its workers so badly in terms of pay, working conditions, safety and benefits, that it would have been difficult to find U.S. citizens who would have put up with the job.
IMMIGRATION VIOLATIONS AREN'T WHAT COLLAPSED THE CORPORATION
In fact, it was the company's violation of safety, wage and child labor laws -- as well as potentially criminal fiscal management -- that led to the company shutting down, spreading economic hardship over the entire community.
Open-borders advocates constantly claim that it was the immigration raid that caused the shutdown. But that is not true. The company -- after improving the compensation package -- was actually able to quickly find legal workers and ship them into town after ICE removed all the illegal foreign workers.
I told newspaper reporters Thursday that even if there had been no immigration enforcement at all, the Kosher plant would have been in big trouble based only on safety, wage and child labor violations. We constantly hear politicians who oppose immigration enforcement say they want to see aggressive safety and wage enforcement. So do I. And if you get that kind of enforcement, you will see lots of businesses that hire illegal aliens in big trouble, because most of them break all kinds of laws other than immigration.
POSTVILLE PAIN WOULD HAVE BEEN PREVENTED BY EARLIER ENFORCEMENT
I was asked if I feel sorry for the community around Postville based on the economic suffering of losing its biggest employer. My answer is yes. But I note that the clerics preaching against law enforcement seem to be suggesting that we should allow corporations to continue to mistreat their workers because making them follow the law might cause collateral economic pain.
I ask the archbishops and bishops: Should we stop enforcing child labor laws because some community has become dependent on a plant that abuses child workers?
The problem for Postville is not that immigration and labor laws were enforced but that they were enforced too late.
If the Bush Administration had been serious about safety, labor and immigration enforcement earlier, conditions would not have gotten nearly so bad. Adjustments could have been made without the corporation collapsing. But by the time the feds got involved, the Kosher management had so corrupted the whole operation there really wasn't anything left to save. The business was rancid.
LET THE CLERGY EXPLAIN THEIR COMPLICITY IN LABOR ATROCITIES
I have another question for all the preachers, priests, nuns and religious social workers who are so eager for their moments of fame in the national press by declaring it immoral to arrest workers who illegally enter the country and take jobs from U.S. citizens:
How do you explain your silence over the last several years about the incredible mistreatment of workers -- including children -- at the Postville plant? Especially those of you who lived in the community. How were you able to just turn away from the grievous behavior of the employers? Why didn't you report the criminal activities to the government?
There is no way in a small community that you could have been unaware of what was going on. How do you justify your complicity with the sinful practices of the managers of that plant?
READERS, HELP YOUR OWN RELIGIOUS LEADERS
The callous immorality of open-borders theology is beginning to infect local pastors.
I request all of you readers to make sure your own pastor is aware of the solid morality of immigration laws in preventing powerful economic interesests from mistreating the most vulnerable members of our community.
Your pastors are constantly propagandized by denominational publications and leaders who suggest that immigration laws are immoral because they don't follow the Scripture's commandment to not mistreat the stranger. You don't have to convince your pastor that our position is right as much as you need to convince that the issue is more complex than stating that every stranger should be given amnesty, a job and citizenship.
You should also let your pastors know that millions of dollars have been donated by foundations to organizations to help persuade denominations to endorse amnesty and to side against unemployed U.S. workers in favor of illegal foreign workers getting jobs.
Please don't be combative with your pastor. Share your concerns sincerely and calmly. I have been around clergy all of my life -- and I talked with hundreds of them during my days reporting on religion. I can attest that most clergy are sincere compassionate people who would never deliberately show a hardened heart to the families in their community that are suffering from unemployment or the threat of joblessness. But they need to understand that illegal immigration is not a victimless crime. Millions of U.S. citizens are out of work today because 8.3 million illegal foreign workers are allowed to hold their jobs.
ROY BECK is Founder & CEO of NumbersUSA
Monday, March 23, 2009
Latest Info. on Amnesty
Weekly NumbersUSA Summary
Pres. Obama Pulls Rug Out From Under Ex-Convict Pleading for a JobBy Roy Beck, Friday, March 19, 2009
Today's news reports on Pres. Obama's visit to California include a touching interaction with an ex-convict who has lost his job. But his comments about making sure that illegal aliens keep THEIR jobs illustrates the common occurrence of really smart people at the top of our government who just don't get it. They don't understand that there are a limited number of U.S. jobs and that when you fill those jobs with foreign workers (including illegal ones) American workers lose out. Look at what happened . . .
Americans' Protests Rising Against Pelosi's & Obama's Preference for Illegal Foreign WorkersBy Roy Beck, Wednesday, March 18, 2009
The White House switchboard is barely holding on. Fax machines there and in congressional offices are churning out Americans' protest in peak mode. Pres. Obama and House Speaker Pelosi have started a grassroots rebellion with their new statements of prioritizing illegal foreign workers over unemployed Americans. How angry are you? Let me count the ways . . .
NumbersUSA Petition Nearly 4 Times Bigger Than Pro-Amnesty Group'sBy Phillip Zanders, Tuesday, March 17, 2009
I've written often about studies conducted by Vivek Wadhwa with various coauthors. We agree on many issues and disagree on others. But his newest report discussed in a New York Times blog, finds that many Chinese and Indian tech workers in the U.S. plan to return home, which he believes will be a huge loss to the U.S. But Vivek's characterization of this exodus as "America's Loss" is quite baffling.
We Lost On a Tabling Motion, But Would We Have Won On a Straight E-Verify Vote?By Roy Beck, Sunday, March 15, 2009
Paul of Montana asks: "Is there any difference between the procedural vote on Leahy's tabling motion on Sessions' E-Verify amendment and a straight vote on the amendment (for a long-term re-authorization)? Would a straight vote have won for E-Verify?" My answer is . . .
Recent News...
E-Verify Growing in Washington State
Australia Slashing Immigration Intake
Tech Companies to Apply for H-1B Amidst Layoffs
Pelosi Video Goes Public
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Says Immigration Enforcement is "Un-American"
Ninth Circuit Upholds Arizona Illegal Hiring Law
Rep. Roscoe Bartlett -- Today's Champion for American Workers
Rep. Lamar Smith Criticizes Pelosi for calling Enforcement Officers "Un-American"
27 Arrests in Nebraska Search for Illegal Aliens who Disobeyed Deportation Orders
Rep. Pete Hoekstra -- Today's Champion for American Workers
NumbersUSA Members Respond in Big Way
Both Nancy Pelosi and Pres. Obama made big news this week, and since Wednesday, NumbersUSA members have sent more than 325,000 faxes!
Pelosi first made news when a video tape surfaced catching the House Speaker calling U.S. immigration enforcement efforts "un-American" and calling for a stop to the raids. She also called a group partly made up of illegal aliens "very, very patriotic." If you haven't done so already, send a fax to your three Congressmen urging them to reject Pelosi's statements. You can also read a new report released by the Center for Immigration Studies saying that work site enforcement raids increase wages.
On Wednesday, Pres. Obama met with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus to discuss immigration. During the meeting, Obama promised to pursue Comprehensive Immigration Reform and said he plans to travel to Mexico next month to meet with Mexican President Calderon to discuss Amnesty. Visit your Action Buffet and send a fax to Obama blasting his promise to pursue comprehensive immigration reform.
Thanks again for all your support and making your voice heard. And please remember, no voice can be louder than making a personal visit to your Reps district office and telling them that you want to protect American workers through lower immigration levels.
Thanks,
Chris Chmielenski Website Content Manager
Pres. Obama Pulls Rug Out From Under Ex-Convict Pleading for a JobBy Roy Beck, Friday, March 19, 2009
Today's news reports on Pres. Obama's visit to California include a touching interaction with an ex-convict who has lost his job. But his comments about making sure that illegal aliens keep THEIR jobs illustrates the common occurrence of really smart people at the top of our government who just don't get it. They don't understand that there are a limited number of U.S. jobs and that when you fill those jobs with foreign workers (including illegal ones) American workers lose out. Look at what happened . . .
Americans' Protests Rising Against Pelosi's & Obama's Preference for Illegal Foreign WorkersBy Roy Beck, Wednesday, March 18, 2009
The White House switchboard is barely holding on. Fax machines there and in congressional offices are churning out Americans' protest in peak mode. Pres. Obama and House Speaker Pelosi have started a grassroots rebellion with their new statements of prioritizing illegal foreign workers over unemployed Americans. How angry are you? Let me count the ways . . .
NumbersUSA Petition Nearly 4 Times Bigger Than Pro-Amnesty Group'sBy Phillip Zanders, Tuesday, March 17, 2009
I've written often about studies conducted by Vivek Wadhwa with various coauthors. We agree on many issues and disagree on others. But his newest report discussed in a New York Times blog, finds that many Chinese and Indian tech workers in the U.S. plan to return home, which he believes will be a huge loss to the U.S. But Vivek's characterization of this exodus as "America's Loss" is quite baffling.
We Lost On a Tabling Motion, But Would We Have Won On a Straight E-Verify Vote?By Roy Beck, Sunday, March 15, 2009
Paul of Montana asks: "Is there any difference between the procedural vote on Leahy's tabling motion on Sessions' E-Verify amendment and a straight vote on the amendment (for a long-term re-authorization)? Would a straight vote have won for E-Verify?" My answer is . . .
Recent News...
E-Verify Growing in Washington State
Australia Slashing Immigration Intake
Tech Companies to Apply for H-1B Amidst Layoffs
Pelosi Video Goes Public
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Says Immigration Enforcement is "Un-American"
Ninth Circuit Upholds Arizona Illegal Hiring Law
Rep. Roscoe Bartlett -- Today's Champion for American Workers
Rep. Lamar Smith Criticizes Pelosi for calling Enforcement Officers "Un-American"
27 Arrests in Nebraska Search for Illegal Aliens who Disobeyed Deportation Orders
Rep. Pete Hoekstra -- Today's Champion for American Workers
NumbersUSA Members Respond in Big Way
Both Nancy Pelosi and Pres. Obama made big news this week, and since Wednesday, NumbersUSA members have sent more than 325,000 faxes!
Pelosi first made news when a video tape surfaced catching the House Speaker calling U.S. immigration enforcement efforts "un-American" and calling for a stop to the raids. She also called a group partly made up of illegal aliens "very, very patriotic." If you haven't done so already, send a fax to your three Congressmen urging them to reject Pelosi's statements. You can also read a new report released by the Center for Immigration Studies saying that work site enforcement raids increase wages.
On Wednesday, Pres. Obama met with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus to discuss immigration. During the meeting, Obama promised to pursue Comprehensive Immigration Reform and said he plans to travel to Mexico next month to meet with Mexican President Calderon to discuss Amnesty. Visit your Action Buffet and send a fax to Obama blasting his promise to pursue comprehensive immigration reform.
Thanks again for all your support and making your voice heard. And please remember, no voice can be louder than making a personal visit to your Reps district office and telling them that you want to protect American workers through lower immigration levels.
Thanks,
Chris Chmielenski Website Content Manager
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Times-Union: Stan Swart on the Employee Free Choice Act
LABOR UNIONS
Give workers a choice
Many thanks for publishing John Parker's excellent letter explaining the importance of the Employee Free Choice Act. It is time to level the playing field" for workers seeking to exercise their rights under the First Amendment to the Constitution.
This act will give workers - not management - the choice between a secret vote or a simple card check system.
As the situation now stands, many workers have actually lost their rights as citizens. In too many cases, we are seeing a return to the conditions made famous in a line from a song by Anne Feeney, The Union Maid: "Once unions were against the law, but slavery was fine."
It is time for the American people to fight back!
STANLEY L. SWART,
labor activist,
THE FLORIDA TIMES UNION (3/21/09)
Give workers a choice
Many thanks for publishing John Parker's excellent letter explaining the importance of the Employee Free Choice Act. It is time to level the playing field" for workers seeking to exercise their rights under the First Amendment to the Constitution.
This act will give workers - not management - the choice between a secret vote or a simple card check system.
As the situation now stands, many workers have actually lost their rights as citizens. In too many cases, we are seeing a return to the conditions made famous in a line from a song by Anne Feeney, The Union Maid: "Once unions were against the law, but slavery was fine."
It is time for the American people to fight back!
STANLEY L. SWART,
labor activist,
THE FLORIDA TIMES UNION (3/21/09)
Thursday, March 5, 2009
You may remember
Some of you may remember the interesting history of Cargil in the U.S., and its pull out. But for those of you who don't:
Cargil use to provide chickens and feed to U.S. farmers who were willing to build chicken houses. The farmers raised the chickens, and sold them to Cargil. Many American farmers did quite well in this form of teamwork especially once their houses were paid off free and clear. We knew of many of them.
Just before Cargil pulled out of the U.S., to take business overseas, they did something very odd. They demanded that the farmers upgrade their houses putting them in debt again. Then they stopped providing the chickens, and began doing business out of the Country. This, of course, destroyed many of the farmers here.
Over 20 years ago Farmers were being put out of business by "Globalization", and their cries were ignored by most (excluding Willie Nelson). Most continue to look the other way thinking oh well it is not us, we were going to get cheaper chickens (we didn't). The farmer lost their farms and lively hood. There were thousands in North Florida alone. To bad we did not listen to the U.S. farmer because many Americans are now hollering the same foul play. Now that you and I sit in our comfortable paid for homes we will hopefully listen and extend a helping hand. http://www.scribd.com/doc/7470879/Cargill-A-Threat-to-Food-and-Farming
Cargil use to provide chickens and feed to U.S. farmers who were willing to build chicken houses. The farmers raised the chickens, and sold them to Cargil. Many American farmers did quite well in this form of teamwork especially once their houses were paid off free and clear. We knew of many of them.
Just before Cargil pulled out of the U.S., to take business overseas, they did something very odd. They demanded that the farmers upgrade their houses putting them in debt again. Then they stopped providing the chickens, and began doing business out of the Country. This, of course, destroyed many of the farmers here.
Over 20 years ago Farmers were being put out of business by "Globalization", and their cries were ignored by most (excluding Willie Nelson). Most continue to look the other way thinking oh well it is not us, we were going to get cheaper chickens (we didn't). The farmer lost their farms and lively hood. There were thousands in North Florida alone. To bad we did not listen to the U.S. farmer because many Americans are now hollering the same foul play. Now that you and I sit in our comfortable paid for homes we will hopefully listen and extend a helping hand. http://www.scribd.com/doc/7470879/Cargill-A-Threat-to-Food-and-Farming
Monday, February 23, 2009
Action Request from Numbers USA: H-2B Visas
Sens. Mikulski & Specter push to break cap on H-2B low-skill workers -- keeping more Americans unemployed
The federal government released the numbers for jobless claims from the first week of February on Thursday and the numbers jumped another 170,000. Yet, as American workers continue to lose their jobs, Senators Barbara Mikulski, Arlen Specter and 23 other cosponsors have proposed legislation exempting tens of thousands of former H-2B holders from the current cap of 66,000. If passed, S. 388 could triple the number of less-educated foreign workers in the country taking jobs away from less-educated American workers.
Take action now by visiting your Action Buffet. You'll find new faxes to send hammering the Senators that have cosponsored S. 388 and faxes to thank those Senators that have not sponsored the bill. Stop Congress from taking jobs away from young American adults and the undereducated. You can also read Roy's blog on the topic that uses Dr. Steve Camarota's recent report showing how unemployment is impacting the less-educated
Thanks,Chris Chmielenski NumbersUSA Website Editor
Sens. Mikulski & Specter's H-2B bill multiplies less-educated foreign workers to keep less-educated Americans unemployedBy Roy Beck, Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Latest data reveal 1.6 million American young adults (18-29) with only a high school degree who are looking for a job but can't find one. Yet, Sens. Mikulski and Specter have introduced a bill to double or triple the visas for less-educated foreign workers over the next three years. And 24 Senators have already co-sponsored the bill!
New Stimulus Projections -- At most 3.6 million jobs, while feds import 3.2 million new foreign workersBy Roy Beck, Tuesday, February17, 2009
Many opponents of H-1B visas have correctly noted that the Sanders/Grassley amendment put in the Senate Stimulus Bill has a number of weakening provisions. But even those considerations pale in comparison to the core issue, which I believe is the historic, symbolic significance of the Sanders/Grassley amendment.
R-O-P-E Shows How to Strangle Grassroots Influence -- Warmup for Amnesty Passage?By Roy Beck, Sunday, February 15, 2009
We now have seen the ROPE swing into action and show its style. The implications for immigration policy are, frankly, terrifying. R-O-P-E is the Reid-Obama-Pelosi-Emanuel power bloc that called the shots on much of the Stimulus Bill with very little say from anybody else in the end.
H-1B Restriction Stayed In Stimulus Bill By Roy Beck, Friday, February 13, 2009
While Congress seemed to do everything possible to make sure that Stimulus Bill jobs go to foreign workers (both legal and illegal), it appears that a restriction on banks using foreign workers on H-1B visas got through in the final bill.
Recent News...
Indiana Senate Committee Approves Immigration Crackdown
Louisiana & Arkansas Reps Cosponsor Chain Migration Act
Texas Reps Cosponsor Chain Migration Act
Virginia County Turning in More Illegal Aliens with 287(g) Program
Georgia Reps Cosponsor Chain Migration Act
Pennsylvania Man Sentenced for Helping Illegal Aliens Find Work
H-2B Cap Exemption Introduced in Senate
Rep. Gingrey Introduces Nuclear Family Priority Act
Dobbs Spotlights Rising Protest of Anti-American-Worker Aspect of Stimulus Bill
Stimulus Package Clears Congress Without E-Verify Protections For American Workers
New on our Website
Send a fax to your Senators urging them to support American workers by not passing an exemption to the H-2B caps
Read analysis of Rep. Gingrey's Chain Migration bill
View our new map of states with mandatory E-Verify laws
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