President Obama, in his State of the Union message this week, focused on the economy and jobs for Americans, as well he should have.
The right week extremists, seizing on the false sense of empowerment the election of Scott Brown gave them immediately began to proclaim that comprehensive immigration reform, was a dead issue. How wrong they were.
And the usual loony toons, led by Tom Tancredo and Frosty Woolridge took the opportunity to push their agenda of zero immigration and mass deportations as a solution to free up 25 to 30 million jobs for Americans. Notice how with these two, the number of “illegals” exponentially grows to suit their purpose?
It not just them. Roy Beck of NUMBERSUSA, Mark Kirkorian of Center for Immigration Studies, both groups associated with John Tanton’s white nationalist network, sound a similar theme.
Tancredo writes this week in the loony tunes conspiracy site WorldNetDaily:
In last week’s column, I discussed a number of real reforms we should make to fix our immigration system. The final step I advocated was a three-year “timeout,” a moratorium on legal immigration. In light of the growing debate on job creation, I’d like to elaborate on what exactly a moratorium is and why we need to enact one immediately.
Every month our government lets in 75,000 permanent foreign workers via “green cards” and 50,000 temporary workers through numerous guest worker programs. That’s 1.5 million new foreign workers each year. Then add all the illegal aliens flooding across our open borders. Every one of those new arrivals is competing with American citizens for jobs – and contrary to the propaganda of the open borders lobby, they are not taking only “jobs Americans won’t do.”
Tancredo, as usual, is confused about what the “Green Card” or “Permanent Resident Visa” is. And since the focus of these nativist isolationists is Mexico and the migrants that come from there, he is incorrect about “jobs Americans won’t do”
Tancredo finishes his rant with a direct contradiction to his primary suggestion:
It is true that a moratorium on immigration will not solve our unemployment problem…………….
Quit whining, get off your ass and find a job!
Here’s the challenge! You think that rounding up and deporting the estimated 6 million undocumented workers from Mexico, Central and South America will free up an equal number of jobs Americans are chomping at the bit, to obtain? Are these jobs Americans will do, without complaint and with the same amount of dedication and hard work the “undocumented” put into them?
Then get off your lazy asses and go to the packing houses and poultry plants and tell Human Resources you are there for the job the supposed “illegal” is taking from you. I imagine they’ll be happy to have you stand on your feet 8 to 10 hours a day buried in animal guts and blood, for $10-15 dollars and hour. If you’re ready to work, instead of lazing around, watching the clock and doing the minimum required to keep the boss off your ass, the jobs are there, and you can take them.
If you like to work outdoors. Check out the landscapers, roofing companies. I’m certain you could take the jobs away from those dirty “illegals”. All you have to do is ask. But can you and will you, give the boss the attention to detail, and a solid 8 hours of backbreaking work, without complaint as the “illegals” do? The jobs are out there. Go take them!
Do you like cleaning toilets. Changing bedding? Washing dishes? Scrubbing floors and the myriad of other service jobs “illegals” do without complaint day in and day out? They’re out there. Go ask for them!
Problem is, many Americans feel such work is beneath them and refuse to even consider these types of jobs. Yes, we’ve lost jobs in this recession, as we do in every economic downturn. But most choose to sit back, collect their unemployment, food stamps and bitch about those “damned illegals” taking their jobs. What crap!
Others, who’ve lost their jobs to technology for example, choose the same route, instead of taking advantage of programs to prepare them to work with the new technology.
It’s easier to sit back and blame others for their problems than to take responsibility and resolve the issue on their own.
Yes, people, the jobs are out there. I see businesses large and small, and factories, with help wanted signs and banners on their buildings and fences. I have customers who complain they can’t find workers who will give them a days work for a days pay. And yes, I have clients who I’m certain hire the undocumented. I don’t ask and they don’t tell. It’s obvious though because those are the workers who are busting their ass doing jobs that even I wouldn’t do.
Yes, we need immigration reform. We need a valid guest worker program based upon the needs of our labor market. We need the youth of America to continue their education in fields that will complement the emerging technology that will fuel the job growth of the future. In this day and age, a high school diploma simply is not enough.
And until parent and the rest of us, put aside all this politically correct bullshit, rein in our kids and propel them towards a higher education, as mine did, we’ll still have the need to import H-1B tech workers from India and other countries. And we’ll always have a need for the service employees and ag workers doing the jobs Americans refuse to do.
And before the comments begin about employers paying a living wage and “illegals” driving down wages, consider that employers pay what a job is worth to them, The pay what they can afford to pay to stay competitive. The days of companies paying employees $25-75 dollars an hour (including benefits) are a thing of the past. Unfortunately, many Americans see these jobs as their “right”, as they sit at their computers bitching about the “illegals, taking their jobs”!
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