I was doing something more worthwhile during the speech (sleeping), but two things struck me this morning. First, the 3 million jobs he boasted of creating over the past 22 months is exactly the same as the number of foreign worker visas (permanent and “temporary”) his administration gave out during the same period! Explain to me again why we’re admitting foreign workers at a time of high unemployment?
And HuffPo had a funny but telling piece comparing this year’s immigration hokum to last year’s immigration hokum:
When President Obama’s immigration policy staffers gathered to help pen the State of the Union Address passage dedicated to their issue, they didn’t have much to work with. Comprehensive immigration reform never came close, and the Dream Act failed. What’s a speechwriter to do?
Control-C. Control-V.
The language is almost exactly the same — more evidence the president really couldn’t care less about immigration. He’s sincere is supporting amnesty and open borders, but it’s not very important to him. So he talks about it just enough to keep the Hispanic-chauvinist groups on board for his reelection. You’ve got to wonder how many times they’ll try to kick the football only to have Lucy pull it away before they give up on The One.
Great point Mark. Obama has not meaningfully helped working class native born Americans, in fact, as Thomas Edsell has pointed out, Obama and the Democrats have basically stopped trying to help white working class voters.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse> "Explain to me again why we’re admitting foreign workers at a time of high unemployment?"
I'll try. Because other countries in turn accept millions of our workers? Because the USA can't exist in a perfect bubble, no matter how much you want it to?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseBad try, redfate. The U.S. takes in as many legal immigrants as the rest of the world in aggregate.
Another take: Legal immigration to the U.S. is running at about a million a year. Emigration (out-migration) is about 200,000/year.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseYou could post the same diatribe during the time of any administration.
"This administration" is not giving away the foreign worker visa. First of all 85% of all these are green cards given under various categories like US Citizen's spouse, parents and other siblings(The family stuff) . A majority of them are for people who are already here but have got the permanent card just now.
Some of this data also contain duplicate entries. e.g I got my H1B 4 times, Employment authorization card another 5-6 time(lost count) and finally the green card. So as per the data you present, I got 10-11 work visas in last decade. I am here since 2000 and have just followed the law which forced me to renew these documents many times over. Still I am one person with one job. However I am the part of the skilled/legal/employment based immigration (Approx 15% of the total number) that your GOP seems to champion but according to you, should be stopped from getting the dreaded work visa.
60% of the numbers you are railing against, as I said before, are for foreign citizens who are married to US Citizens. I am sure you do not want to take away the freedom of US Citizen to marry anyone from any place on Earth. Another 25% go to dependents(parents) or immediate family of US Citizens and permanent residents.
There is no way, this or that administration can refuse to give these visa(I mean stopping US Citizens from marrying with Europeans or Asians or Latinos) since it has to follow the law.
So better lobby your congress to take away these rights from US Citizens rather than just just writing a propaganda item that suggest as if "this administration" is giving away these work visa out of its free will.
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