Peter Kirsanow, a black commissioner on
the eight-member panel, warned in a letter (below) to Obama this
week that giving legal status to undocumented workers will pave the way for
them to take the few jobs that blacks, especially African-American men, need.
“I write to remind you of the disastrous
effect of illegal immigration on the employment of all Americans, but
particularly black Americans,” he wrote to Obama.
“Any
grant of legal status will serve as a magnet to prospective illegal immigrants
and further depress employment opportunities and wages for African Americans.
Given that the labor force participation rate is at an historic low, the
unemployment rate is 6.2 percent, and there has been a precipitous decline in
household wealth, the timing for such a grant of legal status could not be
worse,” he wrote in the letter, provided to Secrets.
Obama hasn’t formally decided what to do on
immigration reform, but is planning some form of executive action after he
returns from his extended vacation on Martha’s Vineyard Island in Massachusetts.
There have been several reports that
he will grant legal status or some form of amnesty to millions of illegals
including the tens of thousands of youths streaming over the U.S.-Mexico
border.
Kirsanow, a Republican on the commission,
cited past testimony about the impact opening the borders to new immigrants has
on jobs for blacks.
“Illegal immigration has a disparate impact on
African American men because these men are disproportionately represented in
the low-skilled labor force,” wrote Kirsanow. He added, “Granting legal status
to millions of people who are in the United States illegally will continue to
depress the wages and employment opportunities of African American men and
teenagers. It also will depress the wages and employment opportunities of
African Americans going forward.”
And, he wrote, any sweeping executive order
would be unfair to immigrants moving through the proper process to become
Americans.
“The proposed executive order is unfair to
people who are attempting to immigrate legally,” he said. “Most of the illegal
immigrants who would benefit from your executive order have no skills, so they
lose nothing by coming here illegally. Yet your proposed executive order is
unlikely to make the visa process less cumbersome for legal immigrants or
alleviate visa backlogs,” he added.
Source:http://www.teaparty.org/black-civil-rights-commish-presidents-amnesty-plan-disastrous-blacks-50675/
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Comments
Continued support of Obama and the Democrat party by Black
Americans is truly suicidal except for those who are fanatical Marxists. Black
families flourished in the 1980s, but their gains were eroded by a series of
bad U.S. policy decisions, mostly pushed by Democrat Marxists, enabled by
Republican RINOs. All politicians who supported these destructive policies
should be removed.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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