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Roy Beck
According to Pres. Biden in last week’s State of the Union address, “EVERYONE from labor unions to religious leaders to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce” supports his “immigration reform.”
Apparently, African American voters aren’t part of his “everyone.”
Polling of Black voters, for example, finds
Mercifully, the Senate has not yet voted on the bill which the House has already approved.
Throughout 2021 while the House was considering and then passing that incredible expansion of the chain migration spiderweb, Rasmussen Reports surveyed 3,130 Black “likely voters.” Here is the chain migration question:
(QUESTION) Do you favor legal immigrants being allowed to bring with them only a spouse and minor children, or do you favor them also eventually bringing in other adult relatives in a process that can include extended family and their spouses’ families?
Black voters’ answers?
32% approved the chain migration of extended family (although it is unknown how many of them would agree with Pres. Biden’s proposal to offer the chain migration to millions of illegal aliens).
{text}, Congress in 1990 voted to abandon any pretense of interest in carefully designing immigration policy so it would not harm the ability of the Black underclass to gain jobs and increase income. Congress showed the same disdain for the descendants of American slavery when it rejected Barbara Jordan’s recommendations to end chain migration in 1996.
In his address to Congress last week, Pres. Biden’s lack of sensitivity to the needs and wishes of Black voters just continued the 30-year tradition of Washington’s economic abandonment.
The {text} last month of around 150 Black voters found that their opposition to chain migration has grown even stronger:
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