At
the end of 2014, President Obama boasted
that the year was the strongest for job growth in the U.S. since the 1990s and
“businesses” have added 11 million new jobs over 57 months, and the Washington
Post’s “The Fix” fact-checker concluded his statements mostly were true.
But unmentioned by Obama was another
federal report concluding that all net employment gains since the Obama recession
have gone to foreign workers while 1.5 million fewer U.S.-born Americans have
jobs now. The report is cited by Sen. Jeff Sessions,
R-Ala., in a plan he is delivering to GOP
members of Congress to restore Washington’s representation to Americans, to
whom its loyalty should be directed.
“While the media celebrates the recent jobs numbers,
little-noticed data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics was nowhere to be seen
in the big papers or the nightly news,” he said in his new “Immigration
Handbook for The New Republican Majority.”
He described it as a memo for Republican members prepared
for the upcoming GOP retreat.
“So too has it been absent from the official broadcasts of
the Republican Party. Yet the finding was remarkable: according to the BLS, all
net employment gains since the recession have gone to foreign workers while 1.5
million fewer U.S.-born Americans hold today than did then – despite the
total population of U.S.-born adults increasing by 11 million over that same
time.”
He continued: “On no issue is there a greater separation
between the everyday citizen and the political elite than on the issue of
immigration. For decades, the American people have begged and pleaded for a
just and lawful system of immigration that serves their interests – but their
demands are refused. For years, Americans have been scorned and mocked by the
elite denizens of Washington and Wall Street for having legitimate concerns
about how uncontrolled immigration impacts their jobs, wages, schools,
hospitals, police departments, and communities, but those who do the mocking
are often ensconced behind gated compounds, guarded private schools,
chauffeured SUVs, and fenced-off estates.”
The House Republican leadership’s capitulation to Obama
regarding immigration and health care prompted a campaign to enable
constituents to urge their representatives to replace House Speaker John
Boehner, who last week overcame a challenge to his position. The “Dump Boehner”
campaign already has dispatched some 560,000 letters – which would stack up 19
stories high – to Congress.
The campaign points out that under Boehner’s leadership, the
GOP majority in the House agreed before Christmas to continued funding for
Obamacare and Obama’s amnesty program – two issues on which voters across
America showed opposition in the 2014 midterms.
Sessions’ outline says the GOP message to the American
people should be: “You are right. And you’ve been right from the beginning. We
hear you and we will deliver.”
“Exit polls were unequivocal,” Sessions continued. “More
than 3 in 4 voters cited immigration as an important factor in their vote,
believed that U.S. workers should get priority for jobs, and opposed the
president’s plans for executive amnesty.
“We may have won an election, but the American people will
only win when we honor the trust placed in us and use the powers they have lent
to us to champion their interests. Congress has the power to stop this action
by denying funds for its implementation. Surely, Congress must not allow the
president a single dime to carry out an illegal order that Congress has
rejected and which supplants the laws Congress has passed. A constitutional
breach of this magnitude demands nothing less than a vigorous, public,
disciplined campaign to rally the nation behind a Republican effort to deny the
president the funds he would need to carry it out.”
He said: “This effort could be complimented by common sense
enforcement-only measures like universal E-Verify, ending catch-and-release,
mandatory repatriation for unaccompanied alien minors, ending asylum loopholes,
and closing off welfare for illegal immigrants. No enforcement plan can be
successful that does not block the president from continuing to release illegal
immigrants into the United States and provide them with immigration benefits; a
‘border security’ plan that does not include these elements may end up as
nothing more than a slush fund used by the administration to resettle illegal
immigrants in the U.S. interior.”
Sessions’ outline said the problem is huge.
“In 2012 alone 250,000 individuals are estimated to have
overstayed their visas and remained in the country unlawfully. Overall, in 2014
only a miniscule 0.05 percent of the nation’s roughly 12 million illegal
immigrants were removed who were not explicit agency ‘priorities.’ If you don’t
meet a ‘priority,’ you are basically immune from enforcement. Even including
‘priority’ cases, 99 percent of illegal immigrants were still placed beyond the
reach of immigration law,” he said. “Even the removal of criminal aliens has
continued to freefall. … DHS documents show that the administration freed
30,000 convicted criminal aliens into U.S. communities in 2014. Overall, there
are about 167,000 convicted criminal aliens who were ordered removed that are
now at large in the United States.”
The president’s response?
Sessions wrote: “In recent months President Obama has also
unilaterally removed restrictions on admission of foreign nationals with
limited terror ties; increased the admission of foreign workers by 100,000;
expedited chain migration from Haiti; extended amnesty provisions for Honduran
and Nicaraguan nationals; and attempted to recruit illegal immigrants for
military positions even as American service members are being laid off.”
The result is that a huge number of immigrants, including
those in the U.S. illegally, are taking jobs from American workers and driving
down wages, he said.
“We need to get our workers off of unemployment and into
good-paying jobs that can support a family – but Democrats voted to double the
number of workers brought in for employers to hire in their place. Every
Democrat senator backed a plan for lower wages and higher unemployment.”
And what can Congress do?
Make mandatory E-Verify to protect American jobs and wages,
end tax credits and welfare for illegal immigrants, close asylum loopholes,
cancel federal funds for sanctuary cities, authorize local officials to
coordinate with ICE, make overstaying a visa a crime, ending catch-and-release
with expedited deportations and more, Sessions said.
Sessions explained: “From 2000 through 2014 – when 14
million new permanent legal immigrants were admitted to the U.S. in addition to
the illegal immigration flow – all net employment gains went to immigrant
workers. This trend occurred even as the population of U.S.-born workers
climbed by 16.4 million. … Perhaps unsurprisingly given the slack labor market,
median weekly earnings today are lower than in 2000. … 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.’”
He said since that year, through 2013, the “immigrant population
tripled from 14 million to more than 41 million.”
“Simply put, we have more jobseekers than jobs,” he said.
“Republicans have a historic obligation – and opportunity – to right that
wrong, to return this government to its people, and to tell the special
interests: Get lost.”
Source:http://www.wnd.com/2015/01/sessions-pens-25-page-immigration-manifesto-for-gop/
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