Thread: Advocates Blast Immigration Restrictionists for Disseminatin

Advocates Blast Immigration Restrictionists for Disseminating Faulty Data

By Daphne Eviatar 3/10/09 7:11 AM
Sure enough, the story I wrote about that appeared Monday in USA Today that said the stimulus bill would provide jobs for some 300,000 undocumented immigrants has created a firestorm.

Picked up widely and the subject of a fear-mongering report on Lou Dobbs’ primetime show on CNN last night, the story cited the conservative Heritage Foundation and the immigration restrictionist group Center for Immigration Studies for their recent studies claiming that, of 2 million estimated construction jobs they estimated would be provided by the stimulus package, 15 percent of those would likely go to immigrants who aren’t legally authorized to work.

But Monday afternoon, the Immigration Policy Center, the research arm of the American Immigration Law Foundation, shot back with a correction: those estimates are based on outdated and misleading data, the group claims.

According to IPC, the claim that the stimulus bill will create two million new construction jobs is based on a 2007 estimate by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) on how many “construction-orientedâ€

Just as many would come back given the opportunity for a job. Let us not give it to them.

CIS itself has claimed that undocumented workers are leaving the country due to the loss of jobs.

How can anyone be sure illegals are leaving when we don't know how many are here?

Moreover, the law already prohibits employers from hiring undocumented workers, so simply enforcing the law should keep those numbers down.

Oh yeah! Why are worksite raids turning up the precious undocumented not allowed to work? Why are the churches aiding and abetting by providing safe harbor and help to these scum, like Elvira Arellano, who uses her American born kid left behind to further her anti-American politics from Mexico?