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Business Insider has a more-than-usually sophisticated presentation on “why America needs to bust through narrow-minded objections and reform immigration right now.” The thing even includes some of George Borjas’s data (Slide 24).
I don’t think there’s a single one of the arguments presented in these 60 slides that we haven’t refuted here on VDARE.com a dozen times over.
Meatpacking used to be a middle-class job for Americans, illustrated in the 1990 Academy-Award-winning documentary American Dream, which showed Minnesotans fighting to maintain their wages and benefits at Hormel which had cut them despite healthy profits. Companies later discovered that illegal alien foreigners were happy to work for peanuts and wages were lowered accordingly. However, in the years following, occasional spurts of government enforcement proved troublesome, so the meatpackers turned to refugees to take the hazardous, poorly paid jobs. (See the 2008 report, Legal Somalians (“Refugees”) Replace Illegal Mexicans At Swift Plant.)
The latest influx courtesy of the Refugee Industrial Complex is the importation of Burmese into Iowa, home to many meat processing plants.
Interestingly, local Mexicans are miffed at the importation of non-Hispanic diversity. As doctoral student Christina Ortiz observed, “But in a certain sense, they are in competition with each other. They are applying for the same jobs. They have the same skills. And that’s tricky. Obviously there is some tension there.”
Didn’t the Mexicans get the memo that Diversity Is Our Strength?
Other diversity symptoms have included drunk driving, public urination and unhealthy barrack-like living conditions among the newbies. So enriching. Four hundred non-English-speaking refugees in a town of 1899 residents (2010 Census) is a huge burden on schools and social services, despite all the happy talk.
If the reader objects to the government’s reckless refugee program to replace citizens with compliant foreigners, don’t forget that the State Department is accepting remarks from Americans on the topic. The occasion is an annual meeting, with the deadline for written statements being May 8 — that’s Wednesday!
Refugee Resettlement Watch has the relevant information about where to email or fax your thoughtful criticism of Washington’s ill-advised generosity toward hostile or uneducated foreigners. A local story not heard within the Beltway may call attention to the harm caused to Americans. Last year, I wrote about the struggle of stone-broke Oakland California to cope with 700 illiterate Burmese refugees, with a state unemployment rate of 11 percent, which I sent to the State Department.
If no local stories are available, the basic fact of continued refugee importation with 20 million citizens jobless shows how irresponsible Washington has become to the American people.
Naturally, the liberal press thinks it’s fine when other people’s jobs are redistributed to foreigners.
In Iowa meatpacking town, Tyson’s decision to recruit Burmese refugees marks a new chapter, Associated Press, May 05, 2013
Why is Mark Zuckerberg spending so much time and money pushing the Gang of Eight's immigration bill?
Senator DeMint: :"...if people read the bill...it will be blocked..."
Although unadvertised, ABC’s This Week did in fact touch on the Amnesty Bill – a bit less than a fifth of the transcript (pages 5-7) deals with it. And I have to say former Senator DeMint went some way to redeeming himself.
DeMint rested his case entirely on bean counting:
…the study you'll see from Heritage this week presents the
Reading the piece on Derbyshire's new book I followed the hyperlinks to Peter Brimelow’s piece Bill Buckley, Chris Buckley, And The American Conservative Movement's Missing Second Act [June 3, 2009], in which he wrote
H/T One Old Vet
Like a healthy community self-helping after a natural disaster, Patriots continue to dig each other out after the avalanche of the 2013 Amnesty/Immigration Acceleration Bill publication.
H/T One Old Vet for Amnesty Bill is a Multi-Million Dollar Fraud By Alan Caruba ExpertClick.com Saturday, May 04, 2013
As Roy Beck, the founder and president of NumbersUSA, points out, "If Congress passes the Senate Gang of Eight bill, it would be like re-creating ALL of the Top 20 cities in the United States, filling them entirely with foreign citizens and giving them lifetime work permits to compete with America's struggling workers—in just ten years' time."
NumbersUSA analysts spent two weeks reading the 844-page bill, concluding that 33 million lifetime work permits would be given to foreign citizens in the first decade if the bill passes. A revised bill has 867 pages and, according to a Daily Caller article, "contains 999 references to waivers, exemptions, and political discretion", more even than Obamacare.
Caruba notes that
The Center for Immigration Studies also analyzed
Dr. Norm Matloff writes to his email list
A few years ago, a congressperson from Texas was asked, in essence, why he was pandering to local industry lobbyists on the H-1B issue. He replied that they [i. e. the corporations] are constituents, just like people are. Funny, I don't see anything in the Constitution on this, the Citizens United case notwithstanding.
Damascus: To MSM, the Middle East simply is more important than Flyoverland
With Congress returning next week (alas) and the Senate Judiciary Committee, headed by Open Borders fanatic Senator Leahy starting to consider amendments to the 2013 Amnesty/Immigration Acceleration Bill on Thursday, this is the hot topic for this Sunday’s Talk shows, right?
Utterly, laughably wrong. Although thanks to the heroic efforts of dedicated Patriots, at last some people other than Senator Schumer’s staff have an idea what is in this atrocity, no discussions at all are scheduled – just like last week and the week before
Leahy himself is appearing on Meet The Press but the subject is After Boston: Protecting The Homeland. As there is no one with him with proven patriotic credentials the obvious response is unlikely to be heard.
The only sign that immigration might get any mention at all is in the blurb for yet another interview with the ludicrously overexposed John McCain, this one on Fox News Sunday
He wants more aggressive U.S. action in Syria,
Christopher Caldwell writes in the Financial Times:
From the New York Times:
By ERIC LIPTON and SOMINI SENGUPTA
WASHINGTON — The television advertisement that hit the airwaves in Florida last month featured the Republican Party’s rising star, Senator Marco Rubio, boasting about his get-tough plan for border security.
But most who watched the commercial, sponsored by a new group that calls itself Americans for a Conservative Direction, may be surprised to learn who bankrolled it: senior executives from Silicon Valley, like Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Reid Hoffma
Chechens aren’t the only refugees committing crime in Massachusetts. A 20 year old Liberian Refugee, Charles Monroe, was recently arrested for stalking three teenage girls as they were walking to school in the morning in the Vernon Hill section of Worcester, right near the campuses of St. Mary’s High School and Worcester Academy. My guess is that the girls probably attended the former.
Baltimore jail case depicts a corrupt culture driven by drugs, money and sex
By Theresa Vargas, Ann E. Marimow and Annys Shin, Saturday, May 4, 4:12 PM
Inside a gray brick fortress, past a barbed-wire fence, two women in prison guard uniforms traded words about their pregnancies.
As a podcast on iTunes, listenable/downloadable onscreen at Taki’s Magazine, or as a transcript here.
In this week’s broadcast I cover the horrible story of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, the Philadelphia abortionist on trial for murder.
After an account of the case and some grisly witness testimony, I note that:
Kritarchy is the name for "rule by judges", without any democratic input.
The Obama Regime and a kritarch have united in an attempt to end run Congress and impose free attorneys for illegal aliens without legislative authority or appropriation. It is another aspect of the Regime's ongoing Administrative Amnesty as well as its contempt for the Constitution.
NYT By Julia Preston April 24, 2013
In A First, Judge Orders Legal Aid for Mentally Disabled Immigrants Facing Deportation
A federal judge in California has ordered immigration courts in three states to provide legal representation for immigrants with mental disabilities who are in detention and facing deportation, if they cannot represent themselves. The decision is the first time a court has required the government to provide legal
Remarks by the President to the People of Mexico
Anthropology Museum
Mexico City, Mexico
9:29 A.M. CDT
THE PRESIDENT: Hola! (Applause.) Buenos dias! Please, please, everybody have a seat. It is wonderful to be back in México -- lindo y querido. (Applause.) I bring with me the greetings and friendship of the people of the United States, including tens of millions of proud Mexican Americans. (Applause.) ...
It's difficult to recall how attitudes were very different at various points in the past.
For example, today, the topic of corporate collusion -- of big companies teaming up, formally or informally, to charge consumers more or pay workers less -- is of strikingly little interest. If Exxon and Mobil want to become ExxonMobil, well, sure, why not? The free market will make sure everything comes out okay!
The president paints an optimistic portrait of a country rising from its troubles, but many who live with the nation's violence and poverty wonder 'what Mexico was he talking about?'
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