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02-11-2010, 02:43 PM #1
How Illegal Immigration Hurts Black America
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How Illegal Immigration Hurts Black America
With national unemployment hovering around 10 percent and black male unemployment at a staggering 17.6 percent, it's just not true that undocumented workers are doing the jobs that we won't do.
By: Cord Jefferson | Posted: February 10, 2010 at 6:36 AM
In October 2008, amidst claims that one of its subsidiaries was knowingly hiring illegal immigrants, North Carolina poultry producer House of Raeford Farms initiated a systematic conversion of its workforce.
Following a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid that nabbed 300 undocumented workers at a Columbia Farms processing plant in Columbia, S.C., a spooked House of Raeford quietly began replacing immigrants with native-born labor at all of its plants. Less than a year later, House of Raeford’s flagship production line in Raeford, N.C., had been transformed, going from more than 80 percent Latino to 70 percent African-American, according to a report by the Charlotte Observer.
Under President George W. Bush, showy workplace raids like the one that befell Raeford were standard—if widely despised—fare. And though the Obama administration has committed itself to dialing down the practice, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has occasionally found herself the bearer of bad news to immigration activists who expected the raids to end entirely under her watch.
For the most part, the workplace crackdowns themselves are unremarkable—gaudy, ad hoc things that mitigate America’s immigration problem the way a water balloon might a forest fire. Increasingly however, their immediate aftermaths—in which dozens of eager African-American job applicants line up to fill vacancies—call into question a familiar refrain from the nation’s more vocal immigration proponents: Illegal immigrants do work American citizens won’t. Even former Mexican President Vicente Fox fell victim to the hype, infamously declaring in 2006 that Mexican immigrants perform the jobs that “not even blacks want to do.â€Join our efforts to Secure America's Borders and End Illegal Immigration by Joining ALIPAC's E-Mail Alerts network (CLICK HERE)
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02-11-2010, 03:11 PM #2
Want Smaller Government? You Have To Reduce Immigration
"For those of you whose primary political interest is stopping the growth of government or even shrinking it, you have to contend with national leaders who say they agree with you but who refuse to deal with immigration."
http://www.numbersusa.com/content/node/5260
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02-11-2010, 03:32 PM #3
I will not compromise. If my candidate does not support enforcement, border security and deportation, then he/she is not my candidate. They are sworn in to enforce the laws, and they do not get to pick and choose which ones.
I voted for Chuck Baldwin, and I don't care that he didn't win. If enough people stick to their values, then the next deserving candidate would win in a landslide. It is my hope and dream.
I continue to be amazed by the so called "black leaders" who support illegals. That position must be financially rewarding for them, because there is no other justification. Illegals hurt black people the most, and they should feel very betrayed.
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02-11-2010, 04:27 PM #4
BTTT.
Reporting without fear or favor-American Rattlesnake
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02-11-2010, 06:17 PM #5
[quote]Audrey Singer is a senior fellow specializing in race and immigration at the Brookings Institution. She agrees that blacks are disproportionately hindered by illegal immigration, but says that pay is a necessary variable to note when talking about work Americans will and won’t do. “There is evidence that shows people at the lower end of the skill spectrum are most affected by immigrant labor, particularly illegal immigrant labor,â€
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