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NumbersUSA TV Debate Ad Asks If Our Leaders Really Believe African Americans Don't Want To Work
By NumbersUSA
Published: Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012 - 12:23 pm

DENVER, Oct. 2, 2012 -- Despite Three Million African Americans Unable To Find Jobs, Our Leaders Will Admit One Million Immigrant Workers Next Year To Take Jobs

DENVER, Oct. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NumbersUSA will launch a national TV campaign tomorrow night during news coverage of the first presidential debate between President Barack Obama and republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. The TV ad calls attention to the fact that the nation's leaders will admit another one million immigrant workers next year to take American jobs despite the fact that millions of U.S. citizens can't find work, including more than three million African Americans.

The setting for the TV commercial is a typical American kitchen, where an African American family is cleaning up following a meal. After proclaiming he's "tired of the stereotype that black Americans don't want to work," the father concludes the ad by asking if our leaders continue admitting immigrant workers because "they really believe Black Americans don't want to work."

"Our leaders need to get rid of their antiquated thinking and step into this century," commented Roy Beck, president of NumbersUSA, a non-partisan grassroots organization with more than 1.3 million participants. "Their lack of interest in the incredibly high number of African Americans and Hispanic Americans who can't find a job suggests a lot of ugly things about our leaders' attitudes toward these most vulnerable members of our society, including that they just may not believe these Americans want to work. It's time to reduce mass flows of immigrant workers and make putting Americans back to work the top priority."

The ad states that three million Black Americans can't find a job. That references the broad unemployment category called "U6" by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and includes discouraged workers who tell current population surveys they want a job. The U6 unemployment rate for both Black and Hispanic Americans remains around 20%.

Despite record unemployment, America continues to admit about one million immigrants a year who also need jobs. Yet leaders from both parties refuse to call for reductions in mass immigration, instead often calling for more.

NumbersUSA, one of the largest member-based issue advocacy groups in America, is non-profit and non-partisan. To learn more or to view the TV commercial, visit www.NumbersUSA.org.

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NumbersUSA TV Debate Ad Asks If Our Leaders Really Believe African Americans Don't Want To Work - PR Newswire - The Sacramento Bee

Urgent Action
roy beck

Here's the jobs ad we're running on national TV around the debates


See the ad below.

We'll be live-blogging about any immigration mentions during the debate tonight. We'll also be putting out analysis on the immigration part of the debate to the news media as soon as the debate ends. Please help us get the jobs/immigration message throughout the internet discussions that follow the debate. Follow our live blogging tonight

And post your own immigration comments on news websites, Facebook and Twitter.

While Obama & Romney are debating between 9 and 10:30 p.m. (Eastern) tonight, your NumbersUSA team will be parsing every word that relates to immigration and simultaneously researching for precedents, contradictions and signs of movement.

Come to our home page as we add information, fact-checking and analysis through the late evening.

Follow the immigration part of the debatehttp://www.NumbersUSA.com

Frankly, I'm not expecting the presidential candidates tonight to show a lot of concern for the 20 million "U6" unemployed Americans when they talk about immigration tonight.

That's why NumbersUSA will be running a new national TV ad around t his debate that throws the jobs issue in the face of viewers and commentators, who hopefully will notice if the candidates totally miss the jobs point.


CLICK ON THE PICTURE TO WATCH THE AD.

htt ps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9dBFSvxfuA

We focus this ad on Black Americans because joblessness is so much worse for them than even the bad situation for Americans in general.

You will notice that the father in the ad refers to 3 million Black Americans who can't find a job.

We want politicians to think specifically about them and answer why agree to a system that favors new immigrant workers and illegal foreign workers over unemployed Americans, specifically over Black American s. You can see why almost no politician is willing to answer this question.

The 3 million figure comes from the second quarter report of the government's Current Population Survey in the "U6" broad category in which the Department of Labor measures people who can find no job at all or who have been forced into part-time unemployment. I often phrase this as "people who can't find a full-time job."

The U6 unemployment rate for all Black Americans is 22.5%.

It is especially bad for young Black Americans (under 30) who have a high school education -- 39.4%!

For older Black teens who are seeking work, the unemployment rate is 52.9%!!!!!

Keep in mind that these are all people who WANT a job -- like the father depicted in our ad. Will our politicians tell us why we should allow 7 million illegal aliens have U.S. jobs instead of these and all other unemployed Americans? Or why they allowed the addition of another 1 million legal immigrant workers this year and plan to add another 1 million next year?

I hope you can get this information spread far and wide during these final few weeks of the congressional and presidential campaigns.

You will likely hear somebody say that focusing on Black unemployment is an attempt to pit Black Americans against Hispanic Americans. In fact, though, Hispanic Americans are in just about as bad of shape as their Black fellow citizens.

U6 unemployment for Hispanic Americans is 19.1%. And it is 28.6% for those under 30 with a high school degree.

The rate for all U.S. citizens is 14.1% -- unacceptably high. But it is twice as high for all U.S. citizens under 30 with a high school degree -- 29.0%.

THANKS FOR HELPING SPREAD THE EDUCATION ON THIS,
roy
beck

When 'Bama was first campaigning, I told everybody who would listen that he was going to throw the poorest Americans under the bus, to favor his precious Undocumented Democrats. Nobody that I spoke to wanted to hear that. They still don't.

Black Americans were enchanted when one of their own became president. Their unemployment rates are unconscionable, but they won't speak out against the president that favors illegals over them.

Black Americans were enchanted when one of their own became president. Their unemployment rates are unconscionable, but they won't speak out against the president that favors illegals over them.

One of the unintended consequences of the Obama election and administration may be major shifts in these attitudes. More and more black ministers are lining up against Obama, primarily because of his political position on homosexual marriage, but many are also questioning the same issues brought out in the article because of the high unemployment. Instead of admitting stimulus did not work, the automobile bailout mainly helped union workers (how many black workers were non-union employees at Delphi?), and the administration of the first black president certainly appears to send the message that the black community needs government handouts in the form of free phones, food stamps, welfare, medical care, etc. instead of job opportunities and the opportunity to pursue the American Dream (recent polls, if you believe them, show 70 per cent of Americans still do believe in the American Dream. I sure do, because I have lived it.)