Thread: Major Libidiot: The immigrants they scorn

This is quite likely one of the most insulting libidiot, IA huger jackasses I've read in a while. Furthermore, he makes borad, sweeping statements as though they are fact without backing them up with any sources:

The immigrants they scorn
Feb. 13, 2008 12:00 AM

While some presidential candidates try to score political points by playing into apprehension about immigration, the immigrants they vilify are busy sustaining the American economy.

Immigrants play a crucial role in our nation's academic, medical and high-tech sectors. Almost 25 percent of doctors and 40 percent of registered nurses in this country are foreign-born, as are more than 30 percent of those conducting advanced science and engineering research at U.S. universities. In addition to meeting our skilled-labor needs, immigrants hold more than a third of our nation's agriculture, maintenance, meat- and poultry-processing and construction jobs.

The U.S. Department of Labor reports that our economy will need 2 million new low-skilled laborers annually during the next 20 years, and Americans will only be able to fill 25 percent of that demand. These are often low-paying, physically demanding jobs that are not wanted by our citizens, but are essential to the economic growth that provides better jobs and living standards for all Americans.

Pressure is building to extend the existing employment-visa programs, but we cannot build toward the future without addressing the situation of the millions of undocumented workers on which our economy already relies. In addition to expanding programs to bring in new workers, an effective immigration-reform package must provide employment authorization for those who can show that they are currently employed in the United States and pass a national security and criminal background check.

A work-authorization program of this type would address our national-security needs by bringing undocumented immigrants out of the shadows and into national databases. It would be a tool for economic growth, allowing businesses access to immigrant labor, both skilled and unskilled, and the opportunity for stable employment relationships. Paired with enhanced border enforcement, it would bring sanity to our immigration policy by channeling immigrants into the formal economy, where their wages are taxed, their rights are enforced and their compliance with program mandates can be monitored.

Despite the rhetoric on the campaign trail, recent public-opinion polls demonstrate that a majority of Americans support allowing undocumented immigrants who have worked in this country for several years, and have no criminal record, to apply for legal status. Arizonans would benefit more than most from such a program. We know immigrants not as the subjects of negative campaign ads, but as our neighbors, professors, housekeepers and cousins. Their American dreams fuel our economy and enrich our communities.

It is time for Congress and the administration to take up immigration-policy reform from a fresh perspective. That so many people, with so much to offer, want to live and work in this country is a blessing, not a problem.

We must embrace this opportunity by expanding existing work visas for new immigrants and creating a work-authorization program to allow American businesses to legalize employment of the hard-working immigrants on which so many already rely.

The writer, a Democrat, represents Arizona's 4th District in the U.S. House of Representatives.
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepubli ... tor13.html

This is the libidiot:

Ed Pastor

Washington Office
2465 Rayburn HOB
Washington, DC 20515
(202) 225-4065

District Office
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http://www.pastor.house.gov/index.php?o ... &Itemid=67

Another democrat who thinks americans are lazy. 6% unemployment is still 18 million people and thanks to employers who hire illegal immigrants,there is underemployment -remember the raid on the meat packing plan and 2 days later americans were lined up around the block to apply for those jobs.Unemployment statics are bases on those who are on or apply for unemployment benefits.It does not count those who no longer collect unemployment,those who do not file and those who are selfemployed,but not on regular basis.I hear change from politicians and how we have lost jobs,but these same people not only want to legalize millions but bring in millions on visas.Think at it.

Arizona, please fire this brainless twit!

is he the Mormon whos just wants more mormons and sees immigrants that way?

Having false documents, fake ids and social security numbers,etc are all crimes -if we allow illegals to stay who have not broken any laws ,it might be a few hundred.

I can just see how the upper-middle class Caucasian liberal males have turned into Obama's biggest support group. They have gotten to their high positions thanks to overblown egos and, typically, a disrespect for traditional moral values. As they jot around from conference to seminar to business deal, of course they need the lowly hotel staff, the restaurant dishwashers, taxi drivers, baggage handlers and whatever other human beings accesorize their lifestyle. Who knows what craven wranglings go on as they try to preserve this lifestyle? And then, in their single act of atonement, they bestow the rights of US citizenship on subversive commandos with allegiance to other countries. They displace honest hardworking Americans out of their jobs and on to the streets.

Originally Posted by zeezil

These are often low-paying, physically demanding jobs that are not wanted by our citizens, but are essential to the economic growth that provides better jobs and living standards for all Americans.

If these workers are so essential to economic growth, why doesn't Mexican want them? Their economy could sure use some growing.

Of course it's all a giant lie, how come with record numbers of "immigrants" our economy is tanking, and Americans standard of living is dropping?

Almost 25 percent of doctors and 40 percent of registered nurses in this country are foreign-born, as are more than 30 percent of those conducting advanced science and engineering research at U.S. universities
100% of which came here legally!

In addition to meeting our skilled-labor needs, immigrants hold more than a third of our nation's agriculture, maintenance, meat- and poultry-processing and construction jobs.

These are the jobs that the illegals come for and displace Americans from by working for lower wages! I am a union construction worker in NYC and am aghast at the amount of construction now being done by here by IA's. Whenever you read an article about a construction accident that takes the life of a worker here I can almost guarantee it was a non-union job manned by IA's!