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    Families Thrown Into Homelessness While 17 want Foreign Work

    THE SOLOISTS -- Families Thrown Into Homelessness by Job Loss While These 17 Senators Champion More Foreign Workers

    By Roy Beck, Sunday, August 16, 2009, 12:42 PM

    Shirley and I watched the movie "The Soloist" last week. It powerfully portrays how difficult it can be to help move homeless people off the streets if they are mentally ill or substance-addicted (which most have tended to be until recently). Even in the rare occurrence when outsiders take a personal interest in trying to "rescue" them by moving them into some kind of "community,' the homeless often seem entrenched in living their lives as "soloists."

    But the new populations of homeless across the country don't want to be soloists, and they aren't that difficult to help back into the mainstream.

    All they really need is a job.

    The problem is that Congress has broken its community ties with these new homeless and stranded them by importing 125,000 new foreign workers each month to compete for a dwindling number of jobs. http://www.numbersusa.com/content/resou ... rcial.html

    Congress' response to these homeless families?

    "Good luck in finding another job. hahahaha!"

    THE FACE OF THE NEW HOMELESS -- NEED A JOB, NOT A FOREIGN WORKER

    The stories in newspapers and on local TV news across the country are heartbreaking: Thousands of families with a long work ethic are now homeless after losing jobs and then being unable to find new ones after a half a year or more than a year.

    These families would love to get some help from Congress. But what they have gotten is another million foreign workers taking jobs since last November's elections.

    The news stories follow a pattern of featuring a family like the one in the Washington Post this weekend:

    Only 15 months before, (Lawanda) Madden, 39, had a $35,000-a-year job, a two-bedroom apartment and a car. She was far from rich, but she could treat Jovon to the movies. She occasionally visited her sister in Chicago and bowled in a local league. She dreamed of going to law school. Then she was laid off and lost everything.

    'I've had a job since I was 19,' she recalled. 'I never imagined I would be without a home.'

    Madden represents the new face of American homelessness.

    -- 'Downturn Brings A New Face to Homelessness: Charities See More Women, Families' by Alexi Mostrous, Washington Post (Aug. 15, 2009)

    Put yourself in the shoes of the breadwinner in these families.

    You've been out of work for a year. But when you stand in line looking for another job, there are 15 million other fully unemployed people in that line.

    And the number of jobs for which you are competing is declining by a quarter-million to half-million a month.

    How much worse could it get?

    Well, Congress can always make things worse.

    And the 1.5 million new foreign workers that Congress has added over the last year have tended -- through a number of reasons -- to be put near the front of the line for the next jobs that become available across the country.

    HERE ARE THE 17 SENATORS WHO ARE DOING THE MOST TO USE IMMIGRATION TO KEEP HOMELESS OUT OF A JOB

    Let's get down to the brass tacks here.

    The people who are working so hard to keep these homeless American families from getting the jobs that would rescue their lives have names.

    My list of the "17 Biggest Enemies of Homeless Families" is not a perfect one. You may find some other criteria. But I am basing my list on the 17 Senators who over the last three years:

    * have done the least to reduce foreign competition for jobs
    * have done the most to increase legal immigration of working-age foreign citizens
    * have done the most to protect foreign workers who have illegally settled in the U.S. and illegally taken jobs

    Why a prime integer like 17?

    Because in our Immigration Grade Card system for the last three years, 5 of the Senators have a score of 1% - and 12 more are tied at 2%!

    I just can't bring myself to deny any of them a chance at the limelight. You have to really work hard against unemployed Americans to get a score as low as 2%.

    TIED AT 1%

    * Sen. Akaka (Hawaii)
    * Sen. Cantwell (Wash.)
    * Sen. Kennedy (Mass.)
    * Sen. Kerry (Mass.)
    * Sen. Menendez (N.J.)

    TIED AT 2%

    * Sen. Cardin (Md.)
    * Sen. Casey (Pa.)
    * Sen. Dodd (Conn.)
    * Sen. Durbin (Ill.)
    * Sen. Feingold (Wis.)
    * Sen. Inouye (Hawaii)
    * Sen. Kohl (Wis.)
    * Sen. Leahy (Vt.)
    * Sen. Levin (Mich.)
    * Sen. Milulski (Md.)
    * Sen. Reed (R.I.)
    * Sen. Reid (Nev.)

    If you are represented by one of these Senators, we will be giving you a chance to express your concerns in a free fax starting Monday.

    In some areas of the country, family homelessness has almost tripled since 2007.

    -- Washington Post

    Mentioned in the story are some of the states that have Senators in our list of shame.

    As for those of you who live in Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts and Wisconsin, I guess your states have no homeless families looking for jobs. Both of your Senators are champions of importing more foreign workers.

    DO-NOTHING NEWCOMER SENATORS

    To make matters worse for the homeless of America, 7 Senators who were elected for the first time in the Recession Election of 2008 have done absolutely ZERO in the matter of immigration to help in their first year, and have already managed a fair amount of extra harm.

    Earning immigration grades of 0% thus far in their Senate careers are:

    * Mark Warner (Va.)
    * Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.)
    * Edward Kaufman (Del.)
    * Al Franken (Minn.)
    * Roland Burris (Ill.)
    * Michael Bennet (Colo.)
    * Mark Begich (Alaska)

    NO MORE SOLOISTS, TIME FOR A SYMPHONY OF COMPASSION

    Every time you read or hear another story about homelessness in your home area, remember that this is also an immigration issue.

    As a national community, we ought to be showing some compassion for these people. They need jobs. Our government should stop giving their jobs away.

    When NumbersUSA calls for an Immigration Suspension, the typical politician or mainstream journalist will focus on the foreign workers we are disadvantaging.

    But how about focusing on all the homeless Americans who would recover their lives if we were to stop most immigration and start taking jobs away from the 8 million illegal aliens who currently hold jobs.

    One more point about the addicted and mentally ill homeless. Most of them aren't hopeless cases. And their first gigantic step into some kind of stability and meaning in life is a very low-level menial job -- the kind most often taken by illegal aliens.

    Thank you, the 900,000 members of NumbersUSA, for all that you do for the homeless of America.

    ROY BECK is Founder & CEO of NumbersUSA

    http://www.numbersusa.com/content/nusab ... tid=254574
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    Dont you know Roy?

    "When NumbersUSA calls for an Immigration Suspension, the typical politician or mainstream journalist will focus on the foreign workers we are disadvantaging"

    The media is pushing globalization just as hard as the Government. Americans would have more chance of getting work if they moved to a foreign country and were the foreign workers. Global elitists who control the media are out to destroy ALL nations and nationalities so they can get the cheapest resources and cheapest labor possible, whilest mixing everyone up and making a homogenous and easily controlled population...

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