Thread: Why are African Americans brainwashed about illegal immigration?

Black America, Face the Facts on Illegal Immigration


By Aubrey Shines
May 04, 2018


“The number of immigrants added to the labor force every year is of a magnitude not seen in this country for over a century,” one American president wrote. And Donald Trump has been branded a racist and fear-monger for similar remarks.

But the words above came from a different president — Barack Obama, in his book “The Audacity of Hope.” Appealing to America’s working class, he went on: “If this huge influx of mostly low-skill workers provides some benefits to the economy as a whole — especially by keeping our workforce young, it also threatens to depress further the wages of blue-collar Americans and put strains on an already overburdened safety net.”

Today, the mainstream media and the left excoriate Trump for warning about the caravan of would-be illegal immigrants that made its way through Mexico to America’s southern border. But back then Obama could say, with nary a whisper of protest, “Not all your fears are irrational” in regard to illegals crossing that border. And he wasn’t wrong. But black America is being taught instead to fear Trump while ignoring the adverse impact that illegal immigration has visited on our communities.

I often hear anger, embarrassment and frustration, especially from black audiences, when they first encounter the facts on this issue. Anger over how long they had been led astray; embarrassment for having echoed those false narratives; and frustration that nobody seems willing to report the facts.

The facts include these: Illegals constitute 5 percent of federal murder convictions, 30 percent of federal kidnapping convictions and 18 percent of federal drug trafficking convictions in this country.

Many blacks and liberal whites who take in these numbers begin to realize the unfair playing field which they have willingly, albeit ignorantly, helped to create by supporting candidates that carve out entire states or cities to hide and protect those that are in the United States illegally.

Blacks are being adversely impacted by the failed policies of the men and women that they have unwisely elected. Often, instead of hearing the clarion call of Dr. Martin Luther King to never judge an individual by the color of their skin but by the content of their character, they continue to elect individuals whose only interest is to keep them on the plantation called ignorance, while they cloak themselves in the garments of emancipators.

Lastly, I appeal to every American who happens to be white: Please stop being afraid to speak the truth concerning the issues that are destroying all of us as Americans. This is what those in my family — and I assume in yours — have fought wars for. Let not their sacrifice be undone because of political correctness and soft bigotry.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/ar...on_136979.html

Originally Posted by 6 Million Dollar Man

This dynamic played out recently at a large bakery in Chicago that supplies buns to McDonald's. Some 800 immigrant laborers, most of them from Mexico, lost their jobs last year after an audit by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The Cloverhill Bakery, owned by Aryzta, a big Swiss food conglomerate, had to hire new workers, 80% to 90% of whom are African American. According to the Chicago Sun Times, the new workers are paid $14 per hour, or $4 per hour more than the (illegal) immigrant workers.

I wanted to post this excerpt from one of the articles in case you guys aren't reading the entire articles, because I think this particular excerpt is extremely important for black people to know. They need to know the truth on how illegal immigration is affecting their community before they think of going and blindly voting for democrats, the people who are screwing them, and who are giving priority to illegal aliens over black Americans.

Activist: Illegal immigration hurts black men most

Moderators: Why isn't this thread a sticky anymore? I think this thread is very important for our black members and future black members. The democrats' lies to the black community need to be exposed once and for all.

Fact Check: Trump Is Correct, Black Americans Hurt Most by Illegal Immigration



During President Donald Trump’s Oval Office address on Tuesday evening, the president said black and Hispanic Americans are the most hurt by mass illegal immigration.

According to a fact check by Breitbart News, Trump is correct as analysis through decades shows that it is minorities in the United States that suffer the most from downward pressure on jobs, wages, and their communities caused by illegal immigration.
Center for Immigration Studies Director of Research Steven Camarota’s 2008 testimony before the U.S. Civil Rights Commission revealed that immigration hurts specifically poor and working-class African-American men the most.


“In my own research I have found that blacks are more likely to be in competition with immigrants than are whites,” Camarota said:

A 1995 study by Augustine Kposowa concluded that, “non-whites appear to lose jobs to immigrants and their earnings are depressed by immigrants.” A 1998 study of the New York area by Howell and Mueller found that a 10-percentage-point increase in the immigrant share of an occupation reduced wages of black men about five percentage points. Given the large immigrant share of the occupations they studied, this implies a significant impact on native-born blacks.

Camarota’s testimony also mentioned how some research has even concluded that employers prefer Hispanic and Asian illegal and legal immigrants over black Americans. Despite constant claims of labor shortages by the big business lobby and corporate interests, Camarota’s research found that the lack of wage growth for low-skilled American jobs, and even a decline in wages, almost certainly proves that there is not a shortage of low-skilled workers, in fact, quite the opposite.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...l-immigration/

Report: Illegal immigration harms blacks, robs social services from legal Americans


Cover of a new report from Project 21 that raises concerns that urban blacks are being hurt by illegal immigration.

A new report that put the cost of illegal immigration at $113 billion a year shows that the burden falls disproportionately on urban blacks who have to pay taxes to fund free services to undocumented aliens and then compete with them for those same programs.

In seeking a “better deal” for black Americans, the report from Project 21, part of the conservative National Center for Public Policy Research, is calling on Congress and the White House to bar illegals from receiving public aid except emergency services and prosecute groups that use federal funds on those in the country illegally.


“Blacks and the working class shouldn't be taxed to pay for illegal immigrants,” said Project 21 Co-Chairman Horace Cooper.
He added to Secrets, “Unfortunately it's happening all across the country. Once again the Democrats take blacks and poor people for granted. This time they expect us to pay the bills too for their bad ideas. Either stem the tide of illegal immigration or find a new way to fund this costly effort.”
His black leadership network just issued a set of demands titled, “Blueprint for a Better Deal for Black America.”


It outlines several ways in which blacks and the working class are punished by decades of illegal immigration.
It said:
Illegal immigration costs taxpayers about $113 billion a year at the federal, state and local level, according to figures from the Federation for American Immigration Reform. About $84 billion is absorbed by state and local governments that mostly derive funding through property, sales and income taxes.
Black citizens pay their share of these taxes, Project 21 notes, yet the government programs funded through these taxes are then reduced or unavailable to black Americans in too many communities due to illegal residents taking advantage of them.




Just as the Trump administration was detailing its programs to provide free education, health care, counseling, shelter and food to illegal children and teens, Cooper said that it is U.S. tax paying citizens that should be first line for government services.
"Millions of people being able to stay in our country illegally not only demonstrates the failure of our immigration system, but also causes a significant strain on public services -- especially at the state and local level. Our neediest Americans, particularly blacks in urban communities, must compete for education and health programs with those who shouldn't even be here," he said in a statement accompanying the 57-point Blueprint.
“Much of the funding for these local programs comes from regressive taxes that hit poor and working-class blacks the hardest. This means they actually pay for the privilege of having unlawful immigrants in their neighborhoods. This is unfair, and it should end,” he added.
Immigration has again become a political flashpoint as the administration moves to enforce a zero-tolerance policy aimed at illegal crossings. Several liberal black leaders in Congress have gone to bat for the illegal crossers.

"To the political left, illegal immigrants are the 'new blacks.' Thus, its entitlement agenda now prioritizes those who enter our country illegally over the lawful citizens whose ancestors were here and fought for this country as far back as its founding. It's appalling and a disgrace," said Christopher Arps, a principal with Red Tail Strategies and co-founder of the Move-On-Up black social media network. "What's equally appalling and disgraceful are so-called black leaders who push these policies of unfair wealth transfer. These giveaways to non-citizens must end,” he added.


Among the ideas in the Project 21 “Blueprint” are:

• Bar illegal aliens from accessing any public services, except emergency services.
• Terminate federal funding of any social service agency that provides non-emergency services to illegal immigrants.
• Prosecute providers and recipients who allow scarce federally-funded social services to be used by those who are in the country illegally.
• End states' special programs for assisting unlawful immigrants, redirecting those funds to needy citizens.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/w...egal-americans