Thread: DESPITE 50 MILLION AMERICANS OUT OF WORK, BUSH COMMERCE SEC. SAYS BUSINESSES CAN'T FI

DESPITE 50 MILLION AMERICANS OUT OF WORK, BUSH COMMERCE SEC. SAYS BUSINESSES CAN'T FIND EMPLOYEES



by MATTHEW BOYLE14 Mar 2014

More than 50 million working age Americans are either officially unemployed or not working, but George W. Bush’s former Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez says amnesty and significant increase in legal immigration are needed because businesses can’t find suitable employees.

Gutierrez says that even the Senate-passed “Gang of Eight” immigration bill and House GOP leadership immigration “principles” do not go far enough in getting businesses foreign labor to fill the jobs they say they can’t find Americans to do.

“The Senate bill has a quota of 112,000 agricultural workers,” Gutierrez said in remarks to the Ripon Society, a center-right think tank closely associated with the GOP establishment. “I talked to the people in agriculture -- we need about 700,000 to about 1 million per year. The Senate bill has a quota of 15,000 construction workers every year. We need 15,000 workers in Miami. Where are we going to get the rest? We are giving businesses a choice. You hire illegally, you shut down, or you just don’t grow. It’s just not right. I think we can do better for our businesses.”

Gutierrez's comments come the same week as a new study found the employment rate of working-age adults has steadily declined over the past 15 years.

Gutierrez specifically mentioned construction workers, and according to the Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate among construction workers in America stood at a staggering 12.8 percent in February, a sharp increase from 8.6 percent in November.

More generally, according to Bloomberg News, the unemployment rate among illegal aliens in America is likely lower than the unemployment rate among America’s black community.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Governm...Find-Employees

Gutierrez is still hanging around after all these advocating for big business and cheap labor. It seems Gutierrez has always advocated for Hispanic empowerment at the detriment of all Us workers. JMO

Carlos Gutierrez is a facilitator of the Security and Prosperity Partnership agreement entered into by George W. Bush in acapulco on 2001, that basically gives away our jobs and sovereignty. They have kept chipping away and we now see where it has led us. Incidentally, the number used for their purpose is STILL 12 million illegal aliens. We know from other sources that 20% of Mexico's population now lives and works in this country both legally and illegally.

From paper written by James R. Edwards, Jr., Ph.D. in 2008. Titled:
THE SECURITY AND PROSPERITY PARTNERSHIP: ITS IMMIGRATION IMPLICATIONS

Excerpts.

A March 15, 2006, Washington, D.C., meeting with U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, providing the priorities of corporate interests for SPP, included, "Work must continue to formalize a transnational labor force that could work in any North American country on a temporary basis."6 In other words, the "guestworker" concept would become more prevalent and possibly further undercut the wages and job security of American, Canadian, and Mexican natives.

Without a doubt, the initiation of any tribunal that gives Canada and Mexico the ability to outvote America could lead only one direction. That direction is the further diminution of American sovereignty, and with it the unfavorable position in politicized rulings, loss of control over immigration and border security, the redistribution of American wealth, the undermining and erosion of the American standard of living, and the eventual loss of American exceptionalism to a blended North American "culture" that forsakes many aspects of American life taken for granted today.

Look, it was 12 Million in 2008, just like it was in 2006.

At the same time, the SPP working groups within and among U.S. government and private sector collaborators have pursued a goal, to "facilitate legitimate travel to and within North America."33 The Bush administration has worked to fashion a mass legalization plan, including a "guestworker" program as the mechanism to amnesty nearly all 12 million illegal aliens— the majority of whom are Mexicans.34 Legalized aliens would receive a perpetually renewable "Z" visa, while new foreign workers would obtain a "Y" visa. No existing temporary visa categories, such as H2A or H1B, would be eliminated under the Bush plan. The Senate immigration bill of 2007, S. 1348’s substitute language, has this structure as its crux.

Sound familiar?

And given the mindset reflected in the SPP documents, a North American "guestworker" visa should be anticipated. The Council on Foreign Relations task force recommended just such liberalization of continental migration:
Experience with the NAFTA visa system suggests that its procedures need to be simplified, and such visas should be made available to a wider range of occupations and to additional categories of individuals such as students, professors, bona fide frequent visitors, and retirees.

. . . A long-term goal should be to create a "North American preference" — new rules that would make it much easier for employees to move and for employers to recruit across national boundaries within the continent.

. . . Canada and the United States should consider eliminating restrictions on labor mobility altogether and work toward solutions that, in the long run, could enable the extension of full labor mobility to Mexico as well.35

Marriage to Mexico?

Beyond the core threat to national sovereignty that SPP poses to each of the member states, Mexico presents its own set of problems in the prospect of greater integration with the United States and Canada. By far, Mexico is the chief sending country of immigration to the United States, both legal and illegal. Mexicans make up some 30 percent of the foreign-born U.S. population, with more than half of Mexican immigrants being illegal aliens.45 Canada sends only a fraction of the immigrants to the United States that Mexico does — both legal and illegal. Mexico is a Third World nation sharing a 2,000-mile land border with the pre-eminent First World nation.

Read the rest at:


http://www.alipac.us/f9/numbersusa-f...39/#post984833

Such people obviously have an agenda and live in their bubble world, not the real world.