Friday, December 19, 2014

A World without Borders


Sen. Sessions: ‘Super-Elites in Washington and Wall Street Dream of World without Borders’ Posted on December 17, 2014 Written by CNSNews.com
FA Sum­mary: Agenda 21 seeks the abo­li­tion of bor­ders and the eco­nomic equal­iza­tion of peo­ple across the world. After twenty years of imple­men­ta­tion the plan is working!
Sen. Jeff Ses­sions, R-AL: In a speech deliv­ered on the Sen­ate floor Fri­day as the Sen­ate was debat­ing a 1,603-page gov­ern­ment fund­ing bill that will per­mit Pres­i­dent Obama to spend tax dol­lars to imple­ment his uni­lat­eral amnesty, Sen. Jeff Ses­sions (R.-Ala.) argued that trends in U.S. immi­gra­tion and employ­ment are depress­ing the job prospects and income of Americans.
“This sum­mer alone the White House met 20 times with busi­ness exec­u­tives, amnesty lob­by­ists, immi­gra­tion activists to craft their exec­u­tive amnesty,” Ses­sions said.  “You know who wasn’t invited into that room? You, the Amer­i­can cit­i­zen.  You don’t get a say.
“These super-elites in Wash­ing­ton and Wall Street dream of a world with­out bor­ders,” said Ses­sions, “a par­adise where things like laws and rules and national bound­aries don’t get in the way of their grand chimera.”
Here is the text of Sen. Ses­sions’ speech:
Sen. Jeff Ses­sions: The U.S. Depart­ment of Com­merce informs us that ‘today’s typ­i­cal 18– to 34-year-old earns about $2,000 less per year (adjusted for infla­tion) than their coun­ter­part in 1980.’  That is a sharp and painful wage decline for young Amer­i­cans.  What has hap­pened in the labor mar­ket since 1980?
Data from the U.S. Cen­sus Bureau offers this insight: ‘From 1930 to 1950, the foreign-born pop­u­la­tion of the United States declined from 14.2 mil­lion to 10.3 million [but] Since 1970, the foreign-born pop­u­la­tion of the United States has increased rapidly due to large-scale immi­gra­tion.’  Cen­sus Bureau sta­tis­tics report that in 1980, the foreign-born pop­u­la­tion stood at 14.1 million.
From 1980 through 2013, the immi­grant pop­u­la­tion tripled from 14 mil­lion to more than 41 million. This large increase in the size of the immi­grant pop­u­la­tion is the direct prod­uct of poli­cies in Washington. Legal immi­gra­tion dur­ing the 80’s aver­aged around 600,000 a year.  But since 1990 through today it has aver­aged about 1 mil­lion annu­ally – mean­ing the annual rate almost dou­bled.  The sus­tained large-scale flow of legal immi­gra­tion – over­whelm­ingly lower-wage and lower-skilled – has placed sub­stan­tial down­ward pres­sure on wages.
We have, right now, a very slack labor mar­ket with more job­seek­ers than jobs. The White House has itself esti­mated that are three unem­ployed per­sons for each one job open­ing.  The Eco­nomic Pol­icy Insti­tute esti­mates that, in the con­struc­tion indus­try, there as 7 unem­ployed per­sons for each avail­able job opening.
This large-scale immi­gra­tion flow, paired with the forces of glob­al­iza­tion and automa­tion, has made it ever more dif­fi­cult Amer­i­can work­ers to earn a wage that can sup­port a family.
Con­sider this report just pub­lished in the New York Times: ‘Work­ing, in Amer­ica, is in decline. The share of prime-age men — those 25 to 54 years old — who are not work­ing has more than tripled since the late 1960s, to 16 per­cent. More recently, since the turn of the cen­tury, the share of women with­out pay­ing jobs has been ris­ing, too. The United States, which had one of the high­est employ­ment rates among devel­oped nations as recently as 2000, has fallen toward the bot­tom of the list…
At the same time, it has become harder for men to find higher-paying jobs. For­eign com­pe­ti­tion and tech­no­log­i­cal advances have elim­i­nated many of the jobs in which high school graduates…once could earn $40 an hour, or more.’
Since end of the 1960s — the time frame iden­ti­fied by the arti­cle – the share of the US pop­u­la­tion that is foreign-born has increased from less than 5 per­cent to more than 13 percent.
As a total num­ber, the size of the foreign-born pop­u­la­tion has quadru­pled over the last four decades. Due to cur­rent Wash­ing­ton pol­icy, these fig­ures are only going to rise.  The Con­gres­sional Research Ser­vice esti­mates that the foreign-born pop­u­la­tion could reach as high as 58 mil­lion within a decade based on recent trends.  Only an adjust­ment in pol­icy will change this tra­jec­tory – just as pol­icy was changed early in the 20th cen­tury to allow labor mar­kets to tighten.
This is an issue that affects all res­i­dents, foreign-born and US-born.  In fact, among those most affected by the size of these large immi­grant flows are the immi­grants them­selves.  By con­tin­u­ing to admit these large num­bers over such a sus­tained period of time, many immi­grants them­selves are unable to find jobs.  For instance, less than half the immi­grants who entered Cal­i­for­nia since 2010 are par­tic­i­pat­ing in the labor force. In Los Ange­les – where 4 in 10 res­i­dents is an immi­grant – one-third of immi­grants recently-arrived live in poverty.
We have an oblig­a­tion to those we law­fully admit not to admit such a large num­ber that their own wages and job prospects are dimin­ished.  A sound immi­gra­tion pol­icy must serve the needs of those already liv­ing here.
Immi­grants and native-workers are also com­pet­ing with a large flow of tem­po­rary guest work­ers – indi­vid­u­als brought into the U.S. from abroad for the explicit pur­pose of tak­ing a job.  Each year, the U.S. admits roughly 700,000 guest work­ers for this pur­pose.  Of those roughly 700,000 guest work­ers only about 10 per­cent are for agri­cul­tural work – the other 90 per­cent take jobs in almost every indus­try in Amer­ica, from good-paying con­struc­tion jobs to cov­eted posi­tions at tech­nol­ogy firms in Sil­i­con Valley.
The pres­sures on the mid­dle class are great.  You have a large flow of per­ma­nent immi­gra­tion and tem­po­rary work­ers, the elim­i­na­tion of many good-paying jobs at fac­to­ries and plants due to advances in robot­ics, the shed­ding of man­u­fac­tur­ing jobs due to over­seas com­pe­ti­tion, a slug­gish over-regulated econ­omy that is grow­ing too slowly to keep pace with pop­u­la­tion growth, and the high costs of energy, health­care and house­hold goods.
Pol­i­cy­mak­ers in Wash­ing­ton need to be reduc­ing the bur­dens on work­ing fam­i­lies, not increas­ing them.
Har­vard Pro­fes­sor Dr. George Bor­jas esti­mates that high immi­gra­tion flows from 1980–2000 reduced the wages of lower-skilled Amer­i­can work­ers by 7. 4 per­cent.  In gross dol­lar terms, Pro­fes­sor Bor­jas esti­mates that cur­rent immi­gra­tion rates pro­duce an annual net loss of $402 bil­lion for Amer­i­can work­ers who com­pete with for­eign labor.
Fur­ther­more, as doc­u­mented by the Cen­ter for Immi­gra­tion Stud­ies rely­ing exclu­sively on gov­ern­ment data, all net employ­ment gains among the working-age since the year 2000 have gone to immi­grant work­ers.  This remark­able trend occurred even as the num­ber of working-age native work­ers increased by nearly 17 million.
Here a few more statistics:
  • Nearly 1 in 4 Amer­i­cans in their prime work­ing years (ages 25–54) are not work­ing. This includes 10 mil­lion Amer­i­can men and 18 mil­lion Amer­i­can women.
    Real median weekly earn­ings are lower today than they were in 2000
    Median fam­ily income is down $4,000 since Novem­ber 2007
    It is in this con­text that we must con­sider the eco­nomic fall­out from the President’s uncon­sti­tu­tional exec­u­tive amnesty.  In plain vio­la­tion of law and the expressed will of the Amer­i­can peo­ple, the Pres­i­dent has ordered 5 mil­lion work per­mits to be issued to those here ille­gally – who will now be able to take any job in America.
    This ille­gal amnesty is part of a broader immi­gra­tion vision from the Pres­i­dent.  The leg­is­la­tion he end­lessly cham­pi­ons – the bill writ­ten behind closed doors with immi­gra­tion activists and open bor­ders bil­lion­aires – surges immi­gra­tion rates yet higher.  After four decades of record immi­gra­tion, the President’s bill – sup­ported unan­i­mously by Sen­ate Democ­rats – triples the issuance of per­ma­nent res­i­dency cards and dou­bles for­eign guest worker admis­sions over the next ten years.
    The Cen­ter for Immi­gra­tion Study explains that this leg­is­la­tion would, in a mere six years from today, increase the per­cent­age of the U.S. pop­u­la­tion board abroad to a level never before reached in Amer­ica his­tory. And by 2033, nearly 1 in 6 U.S. res­i­dents under this plan will be foreign-born.
    Unsur­pris­ingly, the non­par­ti­san Con­gres­sional Bud­get Office pro­jected that the result of this leg­is­la­tion would be lower wages, higher-unemployment, and reduced-per capita GNP.
    All of this begs a sim­ple ques­tion: who is look­ing out for Amer­i­can workers? Who is look­ing out for their inter­ests, fight­ing to help them get bet­ter jobs and pay, work­ing to help their com­mu­ni­ties climb out of poverty?
    The immi­gra­tion debate in our nation’s cap­i­tal is always cen­tered on the needs of ille­gal immi­grants, for­eign work­ers, or large employ­ers.  Isn’t it time, after decades of open immi­gra­tion, to focus on how we can help Americans?
    Is not the sen­si­ble and ratio­nal thing to do to slow down a bit, allow wages to rise, assim­i­la­tion to occur, and to help those strug­gling here today rise into the mid­dle class?
    The Amer­i­can peo­ple have begged and pleaded for a law­ful sys­tem of immi­gra­tion that serves the national inter­est – not the spe­cial inter­ests.  But the politi­cians have refused, refused, refused.  This sum­mer alone the White House met 20 times with busi­ness exec­u­tives, amnesty lob­by­ists, immi­gra­tion activists to craft their exec­u­tive amnesty.  You know who wasn’t invited into that room? You, the Amer­i­can cit­i­zen.  You don’t get a say.
    These super-elites in Wash­ing­ton and Wall Street dream of a world with­out bor­ders, a par­adise where things like laws and rules and national bound­aries can don’t get in the way of their grand chimera.  The only chal­lenge these great global cit­i­zens face are these pesky peo­ple called vot­ers, who cling to the old-fashioned idea of a nation as a home and a bor­der as some­thing real and worth pro­tect­ing.  These elites, you see, know bet­ter.  If you’re wor­ried about your jobs or wages, if you are con­cerned that the pace of immi­gra­tion into your com­mu­nity is too fast and too large, if you feel like your needs aren’t being con­sid­ered, well, you’re just a nativist you see.  You’re being selfish.
    So when an elec­tion hap­pens, and the peo­ple rebel against this open-borders agenda, there is really one thing for these wise elites to do.  They must impose their own laws.
    How Con­gress answers this chal­lenge will shape the future of this Repub­lic.  Will we defend and pro­tect the peo­ple who sent us here – their laws, their Con­sti­tu­tion, their com­mu­ni­ties – or we will aban­don them?  I pose that ques­tion to this body, and I sug­gest there is no pur­pose to our being here if it is not to serve and pro­tect and defend the loyal peo­ple who sent us here on their behalf.”
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