In 1986, President Reagan ushered in the first of the great immigration amnesty bills, offering amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants in return for assurances that border security would be tightened, and employers would be rigorously prosecuted for hiring illegal immigrants.
We all know the consequences of this first great amnesty bill and those that followed: millions more illegal immigrants were lured into the U.S. in hopes of future amnesties (many to agonizing deaths in the desert), flooding the unskilled labor pool and reducing minorities and legal immigrants to poverty and economic desperation. Meanwhile, to no one's surprise, border security was neglected, and Big Business, in the pursuit of cheap labor and high profits, vigorously resisted all attempts at immigration job enforcement, particularly any means of enforcement, which would actually work to preserve jobs for minorities and legal immigrants, such as e-verify.
In the 1970s, for example, office buildings in Los Angeles hired union workers as janitors, paying high wages and substantial health and other benefits. Thengreedy businessmen thirsty for cheap labor and high profits began to hire independent contractors who in turn hired illegal immigrants. Within a year, wages were cut by two-thirds and benefits were eliminated.
In 1987, at a time when teenage unemployment among African Americans approached 80 percent [1] , greedy garment makers petitioned the INS to import more cheap labor on grounds that there was an "unskilled labor shortage", repeating the tired mantra that "Americans won't do the dirty work that illegal immigrants are willing to do"-- ignoring the fact that it isn't the dirty jobs that Americans disdain. Cities have no problem recruiting for the dirtiest of jobs, like garbage collection, when decent wages are offered. Most Americans would be willing to pay a few cents more for their tomatoes if it meant social justice for minorities and the legal immigrants who have been reduced to grinding poverty by the Reagan/Bush amnesty agenda.
Few did not see through President Bush's lame claim that his immigration plan was not amnesty because illegals would pay a $500 fine in order return for being allowed to jump the line for legal residency in front of the teeming millions waiting many years for legal entry, paying thousands for physical exams andbackground checks, or trying to a win a million to one immigration lottery. Why risk winning the lottery, when a winning ticket can be earned by illegal entry, identity theft, and felonious forgery of social security cards and other government documents in order to gain jobs that reduce wages of legal immigrants and minorities?
As immigration researcher Gary Imhoff has observed, illegal immigration "widens the differences between classes in the U.S.; it keeps down the price of hiring a maid or gardener for the rich while it makes thing more desperate for the poor."
Meanwhile, Big Business and many populist politicians seeking votes have adopted the Reagan/Bush amnesty agenda, apparently ignorant of a poll by Hispanic Opinion and Preference Research showing that "70 percent of Hispanics do not want Latin Americans given preferential treatment in immigration," or an INS poll showing that only 11 percent of Hispanics would like to see more visas granted for people from Mexico." [2] Despite the fact that our public schools notoriously fail to teach macro-economics, and in particular how the laws of labor supply and demand affect wages, most minorities and legal immigrants do understand the devastating effects of illegal immigration that has reduced so many of them to grinding poverty.
Perhaps most puzzling, Big Business and populist politicians continue to demand even more of the Reagan/Bush-type amnesty programs as the only means of "fixing" the illegal immigration problem, while at the same time disdaining the plan of Romney and other moderate immigration reformers to "make legal immigration more attractive than illegal immigration."
Anything but that!
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References:
[1] Robert Hardaway, Population, Law, and the Environment (Praeger, 1994), 138.
[2] Robert Hardaway, Population, Law, and the Environment (Praeger, 1994), 142
As to your information regarding his father, you are incorrect. George Romney was in fact born in Mexico, but to U.S. citizens living abroad, therefore he is, under the Constitution, a natural born citizen. He did in fact run for President against Nixon but lost in the primary and was appointed Secretary of Housing and Urban Development by Nixon when he won the Presidency.
BTW: Returning citizens do not immigrate, they return or are repatriated, but they were always U.S. citizens. And before you or anyone else mentions it, George Romney's Grandparents were polygamous, but his parents and he and his wife were monogamous.
Come on, a little basic research could have informed you of these facts; i.e.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Romney
The President is and remains a usurper who has just violated the 14th Amendment to the Constitution by putting the economic interests of NON CITIZENS above those of Citizens based completely on RACE.
Look it up.
Fact: there is not one nation in this world that allows illegal immigrants to flaunt that nations Laws like the USA does presently! Just sneak into Mexico and see what they do to your white Gringo butt! They lock you up and throw away the key. However, our USA Lefties give them so many bennies that it is no wonder we are simply overrun by numbers: free hospitization, free food stamps, aid to dependent children, free schools, and on and on it goes!! All this even though our nation broke, deeply in debt, adn going down fast!!! Wake up Lefties or we all sink.... including you.
Most union workers today joined the union, not because they believed in it, but because they had to as a requirement to work in that trade. Most members rarely attend union meeting and seldom vote on anything other then contracts. Today's unions are pretty much like churches. They want more members so as to garner more money. It doesn't matter if the current membership is fully employed, so long as they all members are paying their dues. Unions are now looking at illegal aliens as a money source, just like a lot of churches do.
Care to hear more about a Constitutionally INELIGIBLE PRESIDENT knifing 20 million long term unemployed workers IN THE BACK with a memo?
Huffpost put him in office on the basis of his skin color. You people own him now.
It will take a lawsuit challenging this latest travesty to turn things around.
The American Dream is now reserved for illegal aliens. No one else need apply.
Simple. Illegal is breaking law. In the US to allow someone to break the law is illegal. Now we have 1.7m more people who are criminals working for the bigger corporate criminals who are financed by even bigger money criminals who are being given a free ticket and more money by the ruling criminals. Guess the criminals have it under control then.
This is where a usurper gets elected because of his skin color and then grants Amnesty to illegals without having to worry about accountability. No one can touch Obama because he is not a contitutionally eligible President.
We were lied to. The dismaying part is that so many refuse to see the lie for what it is.
WE are watching an invasion by a hostile ethnic group in slow motion and cannot seem to understand that it is permanent.
Hate is hate. Paranoia is paranoia. Truth is truth.
They pay $500 a year in income tax and get $2000 refund for child tax credits. But the illegals are all like that. they are just here to suck the system dry, they don't care about this country, its laws or its people.
Who supports them?