Thread: Immigration Skyrockets as Americans Lose Their Jobs

Immigration Skyrockets as Americans Lose Their Jobs
by Virgil Goode

06/01/2010

With 10% unemployment, one would think that the government would consider lowering the number of green cards issued to foreign workers until Americans were back on their feet. Amazingly, recently released data from the Department of Homeland Security shows that we have actually increased immigration. Far from reflecting supply and demand, our legal immigration numbers continue to climb no matter the state of the national economy.

The latest figures come from fiscal year 2009. The fiscal year began on October 1, 2008, which is when our economic collapse began and continued through September of 2009. Over five million Americans lost their jobs during that period.

America issued 1,130,818 permanent green cards, 808,478 of which were given to immigrants of working age. This is an increase over 2008 and 2007. Excluding the extra green cards given after the 1986 amnesty, this was the second highest number of green cards issued since 1914. From 2000 though 2009, we issued 10,299,430—the highest decade in American history.

In addition to the green cards, the government issued 881,840 temporary work visas and gave refugee or asylum status to 96,721 aliens. The total increase to the American workforce was 1.75 million foreign workers. According to the Census Bureau, 1 out of every 6 workers is foreign born.

What are the possible justifications for this policy? Are these immigrants taking jobs Americans won’t do? With the unemployment rate at nearly 10%, no one can say this with a straight face.

Does this create diversity? The pool of legal immigrants is rather un-diverse. Less than 10% of them come from Europe.

Does more legal immigration decrease illegal immigration? If that were the case, you would have expected the illegal immigration numbers to decline as legal immigration increased. In fact, they have both skyrocketed.

Instead of talking about reducing these numbers, politicians are calling for raising the level of legal immigration. Senators Chuck Schumer (D.-N.Y.), Robert Menendez (D.-N.J.), and Harry Reid (D.-Nev.) recently released an outline for their ideas for “comprehensive immigration reform.â€

more like 20%, and climbing each day.

Same Post, Different Source

http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-201287.html

We have to stop illegal immigration once and for all. And reduce legal immigration. The politicians are so inept.

jamesw62 wrote:

"Same Post, Different Source

http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-201287.html"

sorry - I searched first under the author's name, Goode, but the first post did not come up.

Originally Posted by jamesw62

Same Post, Different Source

http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-201287.html

That would still make it a duplicate post.

Originally Posted by immigration2009

We have to stop illegal immigration once and for all. And reduce legal immigration. The politicians are so inept.

that is why WE, THE MIDDLE CLASS AMERICANS, must vote out of office all the politicians who are pro-illegal lovers in any elections. We need politicians who will put Americans first! Americans are fed up with Illegals fleecing America.

Originally Posted by immigration2009

We have to stop illegal immigration once and for all. And reduce legal immigration. The politicians are so inept.

that is why WE, THE MIDDLE CLASS AMERICANS, must vote out of office all the politicians who are pro-illegal lovers in any elections. We need politicians who will put Americans first! Americans are fed up with Illegals fleecing America. and furthermore majority is sick of press 1 for Spanish! My parents didn't learn english so they can come to America for nothing.

MW wrote:

"jamesw62 wrote:
Same Post, Different Source

http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-201287.html


That would still make it a duplicate post."

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And still a good article, wherever you read it. This is one of several articles former Congressman Virgil Goode has written on immigration lately. Perhaps he's considering running for office again? He and Rep. Duncan Hunter (Sr.) (R-CA) were authors of the excellent TRUE Act,which Rep. Sensenbrenner unfortunately overroad to pass his own legislation on illegal immigration which was later defeated.

Does this create diversity? The pool of legal immigrants is rather un-diverse. Less than 10% of them come from Europe.

That's because the goal of this is not to create diversity,( who decides when we are diverse enough? This adminstration?) but rather flood this country with third world immigrants, who are dependent on government for their existence.