Published by Chris Chmielenski
On Monday, about 45 Congressional staffers attended an immigration panel at the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill. The panel was the final piece of NumbersUSA’s effort to S.T.O.P. Amnesty in 4 Days.
NumbersUSA President and Founder Roy Beck was part of the five-person panel that also included FAIR’s Dan Stein, Vanderbilt professor Carol Swain, former INS agent Mike Cutler and Mark Krikorian from the Center for Immigration Studies.
ROY BECK: “Congress needs to do something different. Twenty-five million Americans want work today. U.S. workers want jobs. … The Jobs Caucus is challenging the status quo. We are protecting the U.S. worker.”
CAROL SWAIN: “Immigration is not on the Black Caucus agenda. … 8.3 million jobs are being taken by undocumented immigrants while Black men and women are looking for jobs. … Unemployment is at an unacceptable level for Black Americans. We need to make a stance on illegal immigration. The needs of American citizens come first. We need workplace enforcement.”
DAN STEIN: We have high unemployment and historical high immigration. … Acts have consequences. Employers who have access to a foreign worker supply have to stop.”
MIKE CUTLER: “We are not anti-immigrant, we are pro-immigrant. The government is more concerned about people making counterfeit Gucci handbags than people making counterfeit Social Security cards.”
We’ll have video of each panelists presentation on our website soon.
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