Migra Matters – Hearts of Darkness: A journey into the nativist lair.

A couple of weeks ago, Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) held a press conference to lay out their agenda to throw a monkey wrench into the new administration’s attempt at a comprehensive overhaul package.

The publisher at Migra Matters decided to “take one for the team”, held his nose and listened in to the discussion. As he so adroitly puts it,

Little did I know that listening to the world according to FAIR President, Dan Stein, would be like falling down a rabbit hole where black is white and white is black.

Backed up by media spokesman, Ira Melman, and Executive director, Julie Kirchner, Stein managed in his 45min presentation to rewrite recent history, rehash long-discredited talking points, ignore or misinterpret reams of factual evidence, and flat out fabricate his own alternative reality.

As we’ve come to expect from far-right ideologues, Stein opened up his presentation with a statement intended to stir up maximum resentment and fear. He spoke at length about the changing political climate due to economic instability and how only strict enforcement and severe limiting of all new immigration would be accepted by the American people

I thought about joining the discussion but other matters had to be attended to and besides, I’m not good at keeping my mouth shut in the face of blatant misinformation.

You see what I mean if you read The Rest of the Story

And the anti-immigrant crowd is worried that their agenda of hate and bigotry with be doused with a dose of cold reality when President Elect Obama assumes the Presidency on January 20th, as evidenced by this memo circulating from nativist and Tanton protege’ Roy Beck. It seems now that NumbersUSA has changed their position to ZERO immigration, and of course, trying to wheedle money out of their sheeple.

We say, ‘Suspend immigration during crisis’
?From: www.numbersusa.com Roy Beck NumbersUSA (immigrationinfo@numbersusa.com)

As U.S. Job Market Collapses, NumbersUSA Takes the Gloves OffWe say, ‘Time to Suspend Most Immigration’With Millions Now Out of Work,

We’re Working to Block a Huge New Amnesty and to Temporarily Suspend New Work Visas

DEAR SHEEPLEl
Daily the economic news gets more grim. Layoff follows layoff, as companies and local governments slash their budgets, firing hundreds of thousands of people.

( SHEEPLE , keep reading to see how this affects you! )

The job market appears to be melting down before our very eyes. So how does it make sense for the federal government to bring in around 140,000 extra, additional foreign workers each and every month, to take American jobs? Yes, you heard it right. Your government is currently issuing around 140,000 new work permits and green cards each month—1.6 million each year—to foreign workers.

When our economy is losing millions of jobs, and nearly 20 million Americans are unemployed or working at reduced hours, why should the feds and their corporate campaign contributors bring in ANY new foreign workers to take American jobs?

At NumbersUSA, we’ve decided to take our stand. I’ll be even more personal—I’m putting my reputation on the line with this.

We’re calling for a temporary suspension of most new immigration.
Press Here To Donate It makes sense, doesn’t it, SHEEPLE ?

I know that some NumbersUSA members have focused almost entirely on illegal immigration in the past, even though our organization has always favored major reductions, legal and illegal, for reasons clearly stated in our web site. But I think we can all agree that conditions are even more compelling for deep reductions now.The economic survival of millions of unemployed Americans is on the line. It’s time for a time-out on most new foreign workers.Imagine the fight we’re going to have now . . .In the short time since major news media have started reporting NumbersUSA’s call for a “Suspension,” the nation’s immigration lawyers already are lashing out at us. And they’ll fight with everything they have because their very livelihoods depend on importing masses of foreign workers.

Apologists for cheap-labor industries are attacking us as having no idea how the economy works; they claim that foreign workers only take jobs that Americans won’t do and that every time a foreign worker takes a U.S. job, he/she creates another job for an American.

Some of the nation’s religious leaders have joined various leftist special interest groups in suggesting that we are immoral for favoring unemployed Americans and their families over immigration.

Most newspaper editorial writers and the academics who often appear in the media are sure to do what they always do when we start to make progress in fighting open-borders policies—try to marginalize us with character assassination and name-calling.

Yes, opposing the open-borders coalition is going to cost us a fortune (YOU HAVE NO IDEA BUSTER). We’re going to have to send millions of faxes, we’re going to have to do even more top-notch lobbying.

Our expenses are going to go way, way up. But I believe we have no choice.

Now that millions of Americans are being thrown out of work, opposing illegal immigration is not enough. And favoring only modest reductions in legal immigration is also not enough. We believe that practically every new foreign worker brought into this country at this time throws a working American out of a job or blocks an unemployed American from getting a job. That’s just not right.

I wrote about this topic last week on our web site, and this is the response I got from David of California:

“This is terrible that so many Americans are losing their jobs now! How absurd to now let immigrants, both legal & illegal, pour into our country?!!! Our elected officials need to come down out of their ivory tower and wake up to the reality of the average American worker. “I work in the I.T. industry and we’ve been losing our jobs to both immigrants coming here to the U.S. and to the offshoring industry. I’ve been writing to my senators & congressman for years regarding this issue, all to no avail. They don’t care.”—David of California

Well, David’s right. Many in Congress seem not to care. As I’ve been telling you, Senate Majority Leader Reid says he plans to help President-Elect Obama and Sen. McCain with the immigration deal they’ve just forged. Far from putting new immigration on a sensible time-out, Obama and McCain are cooking up a plan to give a sweeping citizenship amnesty to millions of ILLEGAL aliens already stealing jobs. Press Here To Donate In other words, they want to shove 1.6 million new foreign workers (or more) into U.S. jobs next year at the exact same time they officially permanently take 7 million jobs out of reach of unemployed Americans by giving permanent greencards to the illegal aliens now occupying those jobs.It’s outrageous, and we’re opposing them.

You’ll help us, won’t you?

To get Congress to NOT pass any illegal alien amnesties, and to get them TO PASS a temporary suspension of most new immigration, is going to take incredible financial resources. We’re going to need you—this month. SHEEPLE , thank you very much for all your activism.

Sending faxes and making phone calls are the most important thing you can do to protect your country’s future.

But we cannot defeat the amnesty and get the required enforcement bills passed early next year if our finances dry up this year. SHEEPLE , did you know NumbersUSA is uniquely dependent on first-time donations to meet our monthly obligations? It’s true. So if you’ve never had a chance to give financially, could you help out with $10 or so? I know these are hard financial times, and some people are unable to give. Many others must be more careful about where they give. That’s why those who still have resources really need to chip in now, so that we can defeat this Amnesty and at least slow down foreign worker imports.

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THANK YOU,
ROY BECK
NumbersUSA
PRESIDENT

P. S. Remember, if you are ill, unemployed, fearful you may soon be unemployed, or living on a small fixed income, please do not contribute. We only ask for help from those able to help.

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Disgusting isn’t it? Gimme gimme gimme! The sky is falling!

There is a revolution afoot and it is not the one these nativist’s invision. It is a revolution of those of us that are immune to their fear tactics, their lies and their desires to take this country back to the era of Jim Crow.

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