16 GOP Reps. Reject President’s Call for Immigration Reform in the House

A very interesting post from www.numbersusa.com about Republicans who are standing against an immigration increase. This follows this post about the worker increase in the unemployment bill. REMEMBER, “Amnesty” means ANY non-enforcement of existing immigration laws! This follows this comment and this post about how to Report Illegal Immigrants! For more about what you can do click here and you can read two very interesting books HERE.

16 GOP Reps. Reject President’s Call for Immigration Reform in the House

 posted on NumbersUSA

In a letter to President Obama, sixteen Republican Representatives said they “reject” his call for the House to pass an immigration reform bill because it would “permanently displace American workers.” The letter also suggests Obama’s immigration proposals would increase unemployment and poverty and decrease American wages.
“We write to you today on behalf of the 21 million Americans who can’t find a full-time job.  We write to you on behalf of the 6 million young Americans who are neither working nor in school.  We write on behalf of the countless American workers whose wages today are lower than they were more than a decade ago.  We write on behalf of the 90 million Americans over 16 – including early retirees, college grads living at home, and those living on welfare – who are not part of our nation’s workforce.
“That is why we reject your call for the House to get an immigration bill to your desk that would permanently displace American workers.  The Senate immigration bill, which the White House helped craft and which you personally endorse, would double the number of guest workers brought into this country at a time of crippling joblessness and falling incomes.  On top of that, the Senate immigration bill would also add millions more permanent immigrant workers through green cards – handing out permanent residency to more than 30 million immigrants over the next decade.  This represents a tripling of the normal green card rate.
“CBO confirms that these immigrants will be mostly lower-skilled, and that wages for American citizens would fall while American unemployment would rise.  Per-capita GNP would sink as well.
“According to research from Harvard Professor Dr. George Borjas, low-skilled immigration has, between the years 1980 and 2000, resulted in nearly an 8% wage reduction for US-born workers without a high school degree.  Rapidly expanding unskilled immigration – at time when factory work and blue collar jobs are disappearing – would represent the final economic blow for millions of workers who have been struggling to gain an economic foothold.
“Yet, despite this jobs crisis for American workers, the White House continues to advocate that CEOs and business executives seek lower cost labor.  The White House has entertained a parade of high-powered business executives to discuss immigration policy, all while shutting out the concerns of everyday wage-earners who overwhelmingly oppose these measures.  You even released an economic report saying that the “hospitality and leisure industry” needs ‘legislation that would legalize workers in the U.S. and facilitate the lawful employment of future foreign-born workers.’
“Is it the position of the White House that the hotel industry cannot be asked to find employees from among the legions of unemployed residing here today?
“As Byron York notes in the Washington Examiner, many of the CEOs asking for new workers have been laying off thousands of their own workers.
“So-called Comprehensive Immigration Reform may be a good deal for big businesses who want to reduce labor costs, and it may be a good deal for progressive labor unions seeking new workers from abroad, but it’s an awful deal for US workers – including African-American and Hispanic communities enduring chronically high unemployment.
“Job number one for Congress should be to reduce the unemployment rolls, get families and communities out of poverty and government dependency, rebuild our deteriorating communities and collapsing middle class, and increase wages for American citizens. Your immigration proposals do the exact opposite on every count.”
Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks organized the letter, which was signed by Lou Barletta (Penn.), Kerry Bentivolio (Mich.), Walter Jones (N.C.), Tom Cotton (Ark.), Phil Gingrey (Ga.), Michelle Bachmann (Minn.), John Fleming (La.), Joe Wilson (S.C.) Steve King (Iowa), Ted Yoho (Fla.), Lamar Smith (Tex.), Steve Stockman (Tex.), Steve Palazzo (Miss.), Jeff Duncan (S.C.), and Mike Rogers (Ala.).
As Breitbart notes, the concerns laid out in the letter are nearly identical to those raised by Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., in a 1994 op-ed in the Los Angeles Times. At the time, Reid had proposed legislation that would have reduced the annual number legal immigrants from 1 million to about 325,000.
See more in The Weekly Standard.