NumbersUSA Names the 50 Worst on Immigration in Congress
DEFENDERS & DESERTERS of JOBLESS AMERICANS: We name the '50 Worst Deserters' Today
By Roy Beck, Friday, September 3, 2010, 1:47 AM EDT - posted on NumbersUSA
It was a tough job to pick the 50 Members of Congress who over the last two years have shown the most callous indifference to the suffering of unemployed American households, in terms of immigration policies.
As bad as Congress has been on immigration in the past, it seemed to just grow more fond of foreign labor the last two year as jobs prospects for unemployed Americans grew more and more dismal.
Consider the results of NumbersUSA calculating grades based on every vote and co-sponsorship of the last two years:
* 42% of the 535 Members earned a NumbersUSA grade of D+ or LOWER for their actions
* 25% earned an F or F-minus, with most of them getting a 0%.
During the last two years of a virtual jobs depression, these Worst 50 led Congress:
* in allowing the addition of another 75,000 permanent working-age immigrants every MONTH
* and in allowing about 7 million illegal foreign workers to keep their jobs in construction, service, manufacturing and transportation.
Recent government data show that 22 million U.S. workers who want a job can’t find one. But these 50 Members of Congress deserted those Americans in favor of increasing the number of foreign workers competing with them in the hiring line.
All 50 “Desertersâ€