Another month has passed. Another half-million (or more) jobs have been lost. And our federal leaders continue to do nothing about auto-pilot programs that are flooding our country with foreign workers.
Nothing has changed since last year when 138,000 new foreign workers were added to the U.S. each month on average.
Here are the latest government facts that can't seem to soften the hardened hearts of our leaders . . . .
The number of Americans reeling from the bad job market is staggering:
American workers in nearly every part of the economy were under seige in February:
Following the lead of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Pres. Obama, Senate Majority Leader Reid and House Speaker Pelosi refuse to respond to the plight of unemployed American workers and consider a suspension of most immigration and foreign worker programs.
We at NumbersUSA have said since November that the national jobs disaster requires an immediate suspension of all immigration and temporary foreign work programs except for spouses and minor children of U.S. citizens, a controlled number of emergency refugees and a few thousand truly extraordinary skilled workers for whom no American substitute is available.
With no sign of federal leaders tightening the flow, another approximately 280,000 foreign workers have been allowed to enter U.S. job markets since the first of this year alone.
Not only that, but the leaders have continued to try to protect as many U.S. jobs as possible for illegal aliens. Sen. Reid until today has refused to even allow a vote on a 5-year extension of a VOLUNTARY E-Verify program that allows businesses to make sure jobs go to legal workers.
And in the nation's top newspapers, such as the New York Times and Washington Post, ivory tower editorial writers are continuing to argue that we need more foreign workers in order to turn our economy around!
I wish they and our political leaders could have a chance to say that while looking in the eyes of the 12.5 million officially unemployed Americans.
ROY BECK is Founder & CEO of NumbersUSA
Maynard7549 of CA
Sun, 03/08/2009 - 8:37pm
NumbersUSA Moderator, with
NumbersUSA Moderator, with all due respect to NumberUSA, one of the problems is that major anti-illegal alien organizations, such as FAIR, and NumbersUSA, are too accepting of the numbers provided by organizations, which may, or may not, have a vested interest, in keeping the estimated number of illegals artificially low.
It is known that there are 7 to 8 million illegals using forged, or stolen, SS identities, to maintain employment in our United States.
It is estimated that, at least, an equal number of illegals work at cash jobs for illicit tax avaoiding employers, where identification is not required.
Then there are the day laborers working for small, mostly unlicensed contractors, and homeowners, where SS identification is not required.
Then there are the wives, and numerous children, of the above workers.
None of us know exactly how many illegals are in our United States, and we will never know, or have any idea, until E-Verify is mandated for all employees, and all employers, and we began culling out the employed illegals.
I urge everyone to call their U.S. Senators and urge passage of Senator Session, Amendment #604, which will be brought to the Senate Floor tomorrow (Monday), only due to the insistence of NumbersUSA, and FAIR, members. This is our opportunity to EXTEND E-Verify for 5 years, and we cannot allow this opportunity to go to waste.
ACT NOW AMERICANS AND ACT DECISIVELY!!!
THANK YOU!!!