Thread: Open Letter to Senator Kennedy

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Open Letter to Senator Kennedy
By Michael Scott
Jun 21, 2005, 13:31

Senator Edward M. Kennedy
United State Senate
Fax 202-224-2417
Dear Senator Kennedy:

Re: Democratic Special Matching Fund

I just opened your May 2005 request for contributions to “Stop these Republican power grabs�. You’ve got to be kidding! About the only thing you didn’t accuse President Bush of was attempting to kidnap you and send you to Guantanamo, - bound & trussed in an orange jumpsuit.

This long time Republican is hardly a fan of President Bush, principally because of his unfortunate tendency not to think things through before he speaks or acts. That notwithstanding, the remedy for Mr. Bush’s marginal performance certainly isn’t sending you funds so you can counteract “the damage done by the past four shameful years.�

What about the damage you’ve done to our nation since 1965, when you decided that the welfare of immigrants was more important than the welfare of American citizens? As Senate floor manager of the 1965 amendments to the Immigration Act, you assured your congressional colleagues that "our cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants annually", and that the proposed changes "will not cause American workers to lose their jobs." One-eighty wrong on all counts, Senator Kennedy. We’re currently admitting approximately 900,000 legal immigrants annually; (up from 300,000 in 1965), of which about 70% are admitted because of family ties, and less than 15% for needed skills & educations. Yet, just like illegal immigrants, (another ½ million annually) most of these newcomers are uneducated and unskilled. All you’ve basically accomplished with your no-goal ostrich immigration policies is to import poverty, depress the wages of unskilled Americans, shut-out job opportunities for these same unfortunate U.S. citizens, and place millstoned tax burdens around the necks of innocent Americans in unfunded mandates, - as you mutter non-sequiturs about “a nation of immigrants�, hoping to blunt rational inquiry.

In short, why would any rational or patriotic American citizen send you money so you can pursue your shameful dream of - “No illegal alien left behind?�

When have you ever stood-up and accepted responsibility for something so inimical to our national interests as your immigration proposals? When will your lights go on by switching from the importation of millions of uneducated and unskilled immigrants to a Canadian-styled immigration program that’s aimed at filling the economic needs of our nation with skilled & educated newcomers? You know, scientists & entrepreneurs instead of lettuce pickers, gardeners and busboys.

And now you’ve trotted-out another monstrosity known as S 1033. Remember your hypocritical address at the Center for National Policy, Feb. 8, 1996?, to wit; “We should strengthen our immigration laws to prevent the importation of foreign wages and working conditions. We should make it illegal for employers to lay off Americans and then fill their jobs by bringing in workers from overseas. Any U.S. employer who wishes to hire from abroad--even for temporary jobs--should have to recruit U.S. workers first. And we should end the unskilled immigration that competes with young Americans just entering the job market." Yea right Senator!

S 1033 would allow some 850,000 seasonal agricultural workers (and approximately 2 million family members) to remain in this country for 6 years, providing they devote a minimum of 16% - 20% of their time to seasonal agriculture. After that, they’ll get a Green Card. This means that 80% - 84% of these seasonal agricultural worker’s time, when not harvesting crops, can be spent working in restaurants, car washes, ect., displacing unskilled Americans & high school kids from the work place. It’s a given that you probably don’t give a damn about America’s unskilled & high school part-timers, but they’re enough focused American patriots who do give a damn, and this will hopefully roadblock and sink your ideological game plan to ensure that no illegal alien is left behind.

S 1033 is essentially U.S. government intervention in the labor market to fix the price of low-skilled labor. They’re no teeth in this bill to mandate legal wages for unskilled foreigners. How can you ignore the employment aspirations of some 27 million illiterate adults and another 40 million adults who are marginally literate? Even stunted ideologues like Senators Craig, Boxer, Brownback, Lieberman, and Reps. Pelosi, Gutierrez, Kolbe Flake, and Jackson-Lee must know that no technologically advanced industrial nation like the U.S., with so many millions of illiterate citizens need have any fear about a shortage of unskilled workers. It's a myth that Americans won't do hard labor. The truth is that Americans won't live two families in a garage, or 20 in a trailer, and suffer similar indignities just to sell their first-world labors at third-world levels. It’s bottom-of-the-barrel wage rates, not hard work, that American workers reject. Unskilled American workers can’t support their families on the wages paid to most illegal immigrants.

S 1033 should begin with the sealing of our borders to illegal aliens, as a mandatory first step before anything else happens. It doesn’t. It should require uncontestable evidence regarding the need for foreign workers. It doesn’t. It should contain fool-proof procedures that ensure American workers get first crack at unskilled labor opportunities. It doesn’t. It should require equally fool-proof procedures to ensure that legal wages are paid. It doesn’t. All S 1033 does is perpetuate the twisted & stealth ideology that’s been the hallmark of your immigration efforts during the last 40 years. Hopefully, Congress will finally see through the pall of voodoo-hype that surrounds this disgraceful bill, - and send it to the trashcan where it belongs.

Sincerely,

Michael Scott
Glendora, California

AMEN Mr. Michael Scott..x 100!

Amen, Mr. Scott, ten fold.