By Chad Aaron
Victory and success often carry complex consequences. A health care win could be prescription for Immigration Reform defeat. With 25 Million Americans out of work, Pres. Obama and Congress need to do something popular next. OBAMA The President was in Iowa City today selling and explaining the recently passed health care bill to the American … Continued
By Roy Beck
As a predicted 100,000 pro-amnesty marchers begin arriving in Washington, Sen. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Graham (R-S.C.) this afternoon offered the blueprint for the amnesty they intend to push through the Senate. And the key rationale is that we need a lot more foreign workers! Yes, folks, your Members of Congress are really that clueless. … Continued
By Roy Beck
A rolling national TV and internet ad campaign began this morning that puts the lie to Pres. Obama’s speeches that his No. 1 priority is putting Americans back to work. The ads note that he could put millions back to work if he would fully enforce immigration laws — but he has cut enforcement by … Continued
By Roy Beck
I have grown accustomed to well-funded open-borders groups sending hecklers to call me a “white supremacist” every place I speak. But I was still a little surprised when I spoke to a Black grassroots group recently to have all the African Americans there also accused. It now looks like pro-amnesty groups are willing to label … Continued
By Roy Beck
Pres. Obama is under attack from some Black leaders for allowing Black poverty and unemployment to remain agonizingly high. Blinded by the open-borders ideology that afflicts most of the nation’s political and media elite, Mr. Obama can’t see that he really could deflect the criticism and stick with his stated principles merely by being willing … Continued
“Net gains of roughly 100,000 jobs per month are needed just to absorb new entrants into the labor force.” -Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, speaking on November 16, 2009.1 According to the most recent data, the economy isn’t creating any net new jobs, so why is the government importing 125,000 legal foreign workers per month? The … Continued
By Roy Beck
Wonder why Washington politicians gathering in Jobs Summits on Thursday show NO interest in pushing illegal aliens out of their jobs in order to put millions of unemployed Americans back to work? A major pro-amnesty coalition has just provided one answer. An article promoted on its website says that illegal aliens are better workers than … Continued
By Roy Beck
I finally got my chance to get a formal hearing before Members of Congress on Thursday for NumbersUSA’s year-long argument that U.S. unemployment requires deep, immediate cuts in immigration. I let the key numbers do the talking. Do you know them? Take a look at the top three below. Before I give you the first … Continued
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
