Analyst's note: Absolutely must read and act. Our broken immigration system is leading to significant national security problems that we have the ability to fix. A nation that will not or can not control its borders and immigration will not long survive. Here is a problem that a Christian nation can in fact and must solve.
Will you please help us demand that Members of Congress and the President recognize that their proposals for more immigration must take into consideration how that might affect the prospects for jobs for our fellow citizens trapped in the nation's gigantic reservoirs of Black poverty? pitchfork
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While the politicians and mass media clamor about the moral necessity of increasing immigration and providing a PATH TO CITIZENSHIP for millions of illegal aliens, they are totally ignoring how immigration is blocking the PATH OUT OF POVERTY for all of America's underclasses, especially for the descendants of our past slavery system.
Why faxes on this topic this week?
Because major media -- after ignoring the subject throughout the campaigns -- have finally been focusing on just how bad joblessness and poverty are for Black Americans. Here in Washington, the Post ran a startling front page story over the weekend. And in the opinion section, it ran long-time open-borders columnist Michael Gerson's touching op-ed, "The ignored plight of black males."
Two quick examples of how bad it is: Only half of working-age Black Americans with a high school degree have a job. Less than a third of those without a degree are working.
Why send this fax?
Connect the sudden interest in Black poverty to the immigration debate.
Of course, none of the stories on Black poverty mentions that immigration for three decades has engorged the labor market, making it easy for employers to stop recruiting workers from poor Black communities, as well as other pockets of America's underclasses.
So, your thousands of faxes into each congressional office and the White House will be blasts of inconvenient truths to remind these politicians that their debates about addressing unemployment and about immigration should be tied together.
The nation's immigration system has resulted in 26 million foreign-born workers holding U.S. jobs. At the same time, 20 million Americans who want a full-time job can't find one.
As has happened in every great wave of immigration, the nation's employers have eliminated channels of recruitment into poor Black communities. Employers don't need Black American workers for construction, manufacturing, service and transportation because the government provides masses of new immigrant workers every year who, as the Post noted, have built-in job networks and a rootlessness that give them advantages for the scarce jobs of this economy. From Dr. Roy Beck we learn the following:
This year, Shirley and I witnessed the results of three decades of this phenomenon. We traveled through 17 states. We often made a point of driving through the older, predominantly Black-population parts of cities and towns. In the middle of the day in the middle of the work week, we were struck particularly by what seemed a virtual parade of Black working-age men who were not working. Of course, some of these may have been night-shift workers, but most likely we were seeing what the U.S. Labor Department statistics tell us we would find in every poorer Black neighborhood across the country.
Now, some people will try to claim that those men we saw are too lazy to want a job, or that they demand too much pay or too easy of working conditions. But the government stats tell us that masses of Black Americans are trying to find a full-time job and are being turned down while the government continues to import more foreign workers.
Columnist Gerson expressed the greatest concern for the young men:
"Our politics moves from budget showdown to cultural conflict to trivial controversy while carefully avoiding the greatest single threat to the unity of America: the vast, increasing segregation of young, African American men and boys from the promise of their country."
Incredibly, many of the people in Congress who -- sincerely, I think -- are the greatest voices for addressing the "segregation from promise" for the Black underclass are also among the loudest voices for increasing immigration.
We must force every Member of Congress to contemplate whether giving one million new legal permanent immigrant work authorizations each year -- or whether giving that authorization to another 11 million illegal aliens -- makes it even more difficult for millions of our Black fellow citizens to find a job and begin to climb out of poverty.
If they won't at least consider the balance sheet on that, they cannot claim to truly have compassion for these suffering members of our national community. That also goes for the media who fail to address immigration policy and American poverty in the same stories.
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Major media -- after ignoring the subject throughout the campaigns -- have finally been focusing on just how bad joblessness and poverty are for Black Americans.
Here in Washington, the Post ran a startling front page story over the weekend. And in the opinion section, it ran long-time open-borders columnist Michael Gerson's touching op-ed, "The ignored plight of black males."
EMPLOYERS HAVE ABANDONED RECRUITMENT CHANNELS INTO POOR BLACK NEIGHBORHOODS
Of course, none of the stories on Black poverty mentions that immigration for three decades has engorged the labor market, making it easy for employers to stop recruiting workers from poor Black communities, as well as from other pockets of America's underclasses.
Another set of reporters clamors about the moral necessity of increasing immigration and providing a PATH TO CITIZENSHIP for millions of illegal aliens while totally ignoring how immigration is blocking the PATH OUT OF POVERTY for all of America's underclasses, especially for the descendants of our past slavery system.
Two quick examples of how bad it is: Only half of working-age Black Americans with a high school degree have a job. Less than a third of those without a degree are working.
The nation's immigration system has resulted in 26 million foreign-born workers holding U.S. jobs. At the same time, 20 million Americans who want a full-time job can't find one.
As has happened in every great wave of immigration, the nation's employers have eliminated channels of recruitment into poor Black communities. Employers don't need Black American workers for construction, manufacturing, service and transportation because the government provides masses of new immigrant workers every year who, as the Post noted, have built-in job networks and a rootlessness that give them advantages for the scarce jobs of this economy.
DRIVING THROUGH NEIGHBORHOODS OF BLACK UNEMPLOYMENT IN 17 STATES
This year, Shirley and I witnessed the results of three decades of this phenomenon. We traveled through 17 states. We often made a point of driving through the older, predominantly Black-population parts of cities and towns. In the middle of the day in the middle of the work week, we were struck particularly by what seemed a virtual parade of Black working-age men who were not working. Of course, some of these may have been night-shift workers, but most likely we were seeing what the U.S. Labor Department statistics tell us we would find in every poorer Black neighborhood across the country.
Now, some people will try to claim that those men we saw are too lazy to want a job, or that they demand too much pay or too easy of working conditions. But the government stats tell us that masses of Black Americans are trying to find a full-time job and are being turned down while the government continues to import more foreign workers.
Columnist Gerson expressed the greatest concern for the young men:
Our politics moves from budget showdown to cultural conflict to trivial controversy while carefully avoiding the greatest single threat to the unity of America: the vast, increasing segregation of young, African American men and boys from the promise of their country."
Incredibly, many of the people in Congress who -- sincerely, I think -- are the greatest voices for addressing the "segregation from promise" for the Black underclass are also among the loudest voices for increasing immigration.
We must force every Member of Congress to contemplate whether giving one million new legal permanent immigrant work authorizations each year -- or whether giving that authorization to another 11 million illegal aliens -- makes it even more difficult for millions of our Black fellow citizens to find a job and begin to climb out of poverty.
If they won't at least consider the balance sheet on that, they cannot claim to truly have compassion for these suffering members of our national community. That also goes for the media who fail to address immigration policy and American poverty in the same stories.
Please join with hundreds of thousands of other Americans and send this message to your elected leaders by signing up to send free faxes on our NumbersUSA website.
ROY BECK is Founder & CEO of NumbersUSA
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