Pro- and anti-immigration advocates invoke the economy

author Published by Chris Chmielenski

But anti-illegal immigration advocates urged the U.S. government this week to curtail legal immigration in response to the economic crisis.

“With the federal government reporting continuing giant losses of jobs, it is time to slow the massive importation of workers,” Roy Beck, executive director of NumbersUSA, wrote in a letter this week to Obama. “How can it make any sense for the American people’s own government to be approving more competitors for a dwindling number of jobs?”http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-immigreform9-2009jan09,0,225463.storyBy Anna Gorman, Los Angeles Times

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