Express Concern with Gov. Haley Barbour's Comments on Immigration

A timely post from http://www.numbersusa.com/ about Haley Barbour's pro-amnesty stance. This follows this post about some immigration races and this post about the MURDER of ROBERT KRENTZ, who the protestors and boycotters won't give a solution for, but will call Americans racist for trying to prevent another MURDER, and this post which shows that there are 30,000 openly illegal immigrants in the border town of El Paso. For more interesting stories like this click here to follow this blog.

Express Concern with Gov. Haley Barbour's Comments on Immigration
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Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, the current Chairman of the Republican Governors Association, was recently interviewed by the Hoover Institute's "Uncommon Knowledge" program about a number of topics, with immigration being one of those topics. Unfortunately, not everything he had to say regarding immigration was comforting. Indeed, some of what he said provides cause for concern. Gov. Barbour said:

I’ve had a different experience then perhaps some other governors. I don’t know where we would have been in Mississippi after Katrina if it hadn’t been for the Spanish speakers that came in to help rebuild. And there’s no doubt in my mind some of them were here illegally. Some of them were, some of them weren’t. But they came in, they looked for the work. If they hadn’t been there — if they hadn’t come and stayed for a few months or a couple years — we would be way, way, way behind where we are now.

Every country, I don't care if it's the United States of America or Papua New Guinea, every country has got to have a secure border. If you can't secure your border, you're not much of a country. We've got to secure our border, but we've got to do it with the recognition that even in our life time we're going to have a labor shortage in the United States. We don't want to be like Japan where the aging population is supported by fewer and fewer and fewer. So, there's got to be a way to a) we've got to secure the border, but b) we've got to work through how we are going to make sure we have the labor we need in the United States.

H-1B visas are a huge, huge thing. My idea is everybody from Stanford who’s from India that gets a PhD, we ought to stamp citizenship on his diploma. So instead of him going back to India and starting a business that employs 1,800 people, then he’ll start a business that employs 1,800 people in Des Moines, Iowa, instead of India. A lot of this is just common sense. And common sense tell us we’re not going to take 10 or 12 or 14 million people and put them in jail and deport them. We’re not gonna do it, and we need to quit — some people need to quit acting like we are and let’s talk about real solutions.


Unfortunately, Gov. Barbour does not seem to realize that there are 22 million Americans who want a job but can't find one or that Republicans are talking about "real" solutions to our illegal immigration crisis

Please send Gov. Barbour a fax and express your concern with his comments. Let him know that America is not facing a labor shortage and that many Republicans are offering real and concrete ways of dealing with illegal immigration that do not involve mass deportations



Click here to watch Gov. Barbour's interview (Gov. Barbour's views on immigration are in part 4).