By Roy Beck
CATO Institute’s Dan Griswold suggests that the U.S. faces a crisis in filling lower skilled jobs because we aren’t producing as many high school dropouts as in the past. . . . the cohort of U.S. workers who have traditionally filled those jobs, namely high school dropouts, continues to shrink. In the past decade, the number … Continued
By Roy Beck
Examples of insanity from just last week that further prove U.S. leaders don’t understand the pain of 10.2% unemployment: INSANITY EXHIBIT A: Sec. of State Hillary Clinton went to the Philippines to promise to bring more of its workers to compete with Americans. The ABC News report shows the story was even crazier than that. … Continued
By Roy Beck
Happy Veterans Day. At least, we veterans have our own organization, the American Legion, which does NOT lobby for more foreign workers to take our jobs. (See the Legion anti-amnesty stance that got it labeled a hate group by some open borders organizations.) But if you own a business, or are in a union, or … Continued
By Roy Beck
Every month, we get more terrible unemployment news. (Now, we hear the official unemployment rate has hit 10.2%!) And every month, I must call on Americans to force the nation’s elite leaders to answer why they insist on importing 125,000 working-age foreign citizens each month. Below is the list of elites working against jobless Americans … Continued
By Roy Beck
NumbersUSA is mobilizing our 920,000 members to contact their Representatives to urge defeat of the Rule to bring H.R. 3962 to the House floor. NumbersUSA takes no position on the non-immigration parts of the bill. But Speaker Pelosi and the Rules Committee have broken the promises that Pres. Obama made that illegal aliens would be … Continued
By Roy Beck
The Associated Press has just reported that, after the Hispanic Caucus confronted Pres. Obama at the White House this afternoon, the chair of the House Rules Committee indicated she is giving the Caucus what it wants: Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) indicated that the House will have to vote on a bill that allows illegal aliens … Continued
By Roy Beck
9:30 a.m. — Pres. Obama has scheduled a meeting with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus for this (Thursday) afternoon. Presumably, the Hispanic Caucus will ask the President to prove himself a liar to the American people. Obama and his spokesmen have made a very clear promise to a joint session of Congress and in many national … Continued
By Roy Beck
A few minutes ago, the White House issued a new report claiming that the Stimulus Bill earlier this year has created or saved approximately 650,000 U.S. jobs. Unfortunately, another government program — immigration — completely wiped out any overall benefit the stimulus jobs could have been for the American working man and woman. All of … Continued
By Roy Beck
Sen. Durbin (D-Ill.) last night and today is once again using his leadership position to make false claims about E-Verify’s reliability and to project the absolutely foolish notion that unemployment and immigration have no relationship. But while he laments the 125,000 who have recently lost their unemployment benefits (I do, too), he ignores the fact … Continued
