Senator Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.), ranking member of the Senate
Budget Committee and a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued
the following statement today:
“The arguments compiled by FWD.us pushing for a massive surge in
new workers from abroad have ignored the overwhelming literature, including
broad research by the Congressional Budget Office, demonstrating that such a
plan would reduce wages and job prospects for millions of struggling workers
living here today.
The White House and Senate Democrats have embraced a plan that
not only allows illegal immigration to continue indefinitely, but proposes to
double the flow of new legal immigrant workers and triple the number of mostly
lesser-skilled immigrants who will be given green cards. Unfortunately, it
seems several House leaders are contemplating a similar approach. We need to
move Americans off of welfare and into good-paying jobs—not replace them with
lower-wage workers from abroad. Gene Sperling has said there are three
jobseekers for every one job opening. Has anyone asked the American people
whether they want these large increases to current record immigration levels
now being proposed?
Lawmakers must decide who they represent: immigration activists
and powerful interests, or millions of struggling and unemployed Americans.
Republicans have an opportunity to stand alone as the one party dutifully
representing the legitimate interests of the American worker. They should seize
it. They should boldly and unapologetically articulate policies that end the
lawlessness and advance the national interest.” See study below:
Immigration Policy
and the U.S. Economy
“Immigration
and the American Worker: A Review of the Academic Literature” (report by Dr.
George Borjas, professor of economics at the Harvard Kennedy School):
“The
immigration surplus [benefits that accrue to natives rather than to immigrants
themselves] comes from reducing the wages of natives in competition with
immigrants by an estimated $402 billion a year, while increasing profits [of
businesses that rely on immigrant labor] by an estimated $437 billion…
Immigration has
its largest negative impact on the wage of native workers who did not graduate
from high school, a group that makes up a modest (and, in recent decades,
shrinking) share of the workforce. However, these workers are among the poorest
Americans… Although native-born high school dropouts may make up a small
fraction of the native-born population, they are particularly vulnerable to the
adverse wage effects of immigration.”
“Immigrant
Gains and Native Losses” (Center for Immigration Studies report by Steve
Camarota, July 2013):
“From the first
quarter of 2000 to the first quarter of 2013, the number of natives working
actually fell by 1.3 million while the overall size of the working-age (16 to
65) native population increased by 16.4 million. Over the same time period, the
number of immigrants working (legal and illegal) increased by 5.3 million… [In
other words,] none of the net growth in employment among the working-age has
gone to natives.”
“Immigration
Bill a Disaster for Unemployed” (op-ed by Peter Kirsanow, Commissioner, U.S.
Commission on Civil Rights):
“The assurances
of the [Gang of Eight] bill’s proponents that the bill will somehow help the
economy obscure copious evidence that the bill will wreak enormous damage to
the employment prospects of American workers who have already seen their wages
and employment rates plummet over the last several years…
Not only will
the bill grant amnesty to 11 million illegal immigrants, it will act as a
magnet for future illegal immigration and substantially increase the number of
legal immigrants. It is conservatively estimated that the bill will result in
30 million to 33 million additional immigrants over the next 10 years… Since
the supply of low-skilled workers already exceeds the demand, the massive
influx in low-skilled immigrants bodes ill for all such workers, but
particularly black males.”
“The STEM
Crisis Is a Myth” (op-ed by Robert Charette, contributing editor for the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers magazine):
“Companies
would rather not pay STEM professionals high salaries with lavish benefits,
offer them training on the job, or guarantee them decades of stable employment.
So having an oversupply of workers, whether domestically educated or imported,
is to their benefit… [in part because] it helps keep wages in check…
Viewed another way, about 15 million U.S.
residents hold at least a bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline, but
three-fourths of them—11.4 million—work outside of STEM… If there is in fact a
STEM worker shortage, wouldn’t you expect more people with STEM degrees to be
filling those jobs?”
Source:http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/370085/sessions-republicans-should-seize-opportunity-stand-struggling-workers-nro-staff by NRO Staff,
January 31,
2014 5:45 PM
Comments:
This answers the question about why and how this has
occurred and why “establishment Republicans” don’t touch this run-away
immigration. They would prefer to
receive campaign contributions from the “immigrationists” and not get elected.
If they seem secure when they claim that immigration is good for the economy,
they are either expert liars or they’re delusional.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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