Obamas Amnesty: An Attack on the Poor
April 2, 2013
By Arnold Ahlert
Last Friday, the so-called comprehensive immigration reform effort received a boost when U.S. Chamber of Commerce head Tom Donohue and AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka reportedly came to an agreement regarding a guest-worker program. The deal indicates that one of the bills major stumbling blocks the worry that a flood of unskilled, low-wage workers would crowd poorer Americans out of the job market has apparently been overcome. Politically speaking, it has. For low-skill, low-wage Americans, however, it is an economic disaster-in-the-making. And though Democrats are once again casting themselves as the champions of beleaguered minority groups for pursuing this legislation, it is American blacks and Hispanics the communities that suffer from some of the nations highest unemployment rates who will pay the price for the Lefts amnesty folly.
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Comprehensive immigration reform will import millions of low-skill workers into America, even as millions of illegal alien, low-skill workers already here will be put on a pathway to citizenship. Obama, Democrats, and more than a few Republicans terrified by the political ramifications of walking away from a deal, will get behind a plan that apparently ignores basic economics: if you have more of something like an over-abundance of low-skill workers each one of those workers will be worth less.
For years, Americans have complained about jobs being outsourced. For low-skill American workers, a terrifying new reality has emerged: if anything resembling the current agreement is passed, increasing levels of unemployment will be in-sourced.
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