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    WELCOME TO OPEN BORDERS FANTASY LAND!

    Posted by Matt O'Brien | Mar 7, 2017

    The open borders lobby consistently relies on disingenuous arguments to advance its agenda. Chief among those fallacious claims is the notion that enforcing U.S. immigration law somehow constitutes a “human rights” violation. And the Huffington Post has published yet another puff-piece by an American immigration attorney feigning righteous indignation at the “civil liberties abuses” allegedly suffered by illegal aliens.

    Titled “The Republicans Reclaim America by Cleansing it of All Noncitizens” it was authored by Juan Cartagena, President and General Counsel of “Latino Justice,” at the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund (PRLDEF). And it is filled with legal mischaracterizations so egregious, they read like 1950s era Soviet anti-American propaganda.

    Mr. Cartagena begins by claiming that President Trump is trading American values (particularly due process of law) in order to “cleanse” the country of illegal aliens. Apart from the outrageously offensive implication that the current administration is a white supremacist organization bent on ethnic cleansing, he’s just plain wrong. The Trump administration hasn’t suggested, in any way, that it wishes to see aliens deprived of due process. In fact, it is patently obvious that Team Trump sees fair and open deportation proceedings as one way of vindicating its claims about the deleterious effects of criminal aliens and uncontrolled mass migration by job seekers.

    Cartagena follows up with the absurd claim that the president is attempting to create a “police state that will make Latinos, Asians, and Africans disappear just on suspicion of probable cause.” How exactly will this happen? A Federal District Court in California – whose holdings are only supposed to be applicable within the district over which it has jurisdiction – unilaterally flouted 150 years of precedent and blocked the implementation of the Trump immigration/national security Executive Order. That seems more like a state that is overly sensitive to minority rights than it does a police state where people disappear.

    And what exactly is “suspicion of probable cause”? By definition, probable cause is a form of suspicion. It is the reasonable belief, by a law enforcement officer, that a violation of law has been committed. The Trump administration hasn’t changed the applicable laws, or legal standards, pursuant to which illegal aliens may be arrested (nor does it have any authority do that). The mere fact that President Obama abdicated his constitutional duty, under the “necessary and proper” clause, to enforce immigration law doesn’t render it a civil rights violation when President Trump fulfills that duty.

    The absurdity continues: “Get ready in a few years’ time for an American landscape with virtually no one to pick crops, chop livestock, construct homes at minimum wage, landscape, nanny or work the kitchens of our finest restaurants.” This is a man who gets paid to advocate on behalf of aliens and the extent of his hopes for new arrivals is mass amnesty and condemnation to the lowest rung of the economic ladder? His arguments begin to sound less like any reasonable plea for “Latino justice” and more like a request for an endless supply of illegal aliens who Mr. Cartagena can profit from defending.

    In 1918 U.S. Senator Hiram Warren Johnson is purported to have said, “The first casualty of war is truth.” Once upon a time in America, integrity and honesty were values treasured by the practicing bar. But in the current war on immigration enforcement, ethnic grievance lawyers are more than willing to kill the truth whenever it conflicts with their political agenda. Welcome to open borders fantasy land!

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    Lots of job types taken not even mentioned - hotels, contractors/supervisors for large buildings and this story from 2015 with data facts from 2012......out of date but 1 in 8 then= can only be worse now..also doesn't address the jobs legal foreigners have, some very high up the ladder.....it doesn't address outsourcing either where Amazon's, largest online retailer, customer service agent you're on the phone with is in Costa Rica or your Comcast chat is with someone that does not comprehend English language well but spanish or languages from India.

    One in eight undocumented immigrants in the U.S. now has a white-collar job

    By Rob Wile

    The share of all unauthorized immigrant workers with management and professional jobs grew to 13% in 2012 from 10% in 2007 — an overall increase of 180,000, according to new data from the Pew Research Center.

    Meanwhile, the share with construction or production jobs declined to 29% from 34%.


    “In a reflection of changes in the overall economy since the Great Recession, the U.S. unauthorized immigrant workforce now holds fewer blue-collar jobs and more white-collar ones than it did before the 2007-2009 recession,” Pew says.

    Despite these advances, undocumented workers’ representation among all white-collar occupations remains low — just 2%. Agriculture has replaced construction as the industry with the largest share of undocumented workers. Sixteen percent of all ag workers were undocumented as of 2012, the most recent year for which data was available.
    That compares with 12 percent for construction. In 2008, according to Pew, they comprised 14 percent of the construction industry and just 13 percent of farming.

    “Unauthorized immigrant workers remain concentrated in lower-skill jobs, much more so than U.S.-born workers, according to the new estimates, which are based on government data. In 2012, 62% held service, construction and production jobs, twice the share of U.S.-born workers who did. The 13% share with management or professional jobs is less than half of the 36% of U.S.-born workers in those occupations.”
    Here’s the map showing how undocumented workers now represent large shares of states’ farming industries.


    http://fusion.net/story/110023/one-i...te-collar-gig/
    Last edited by artist; 03-08-2017 at 04:13 PM.

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