Immigration overload cannot continue

By Frosty Wooldridge

My long time friend Washington DC writer Don Collins understands the duplicities that continue in the Halls of Congress with mass immigration.  First of all, it keeps American workers out of jobs that pay a living wage.  Second, it swells America’s welfare and food stamp rolls that cost American taxpayers billions of dollalrs.  Third, it blatantly undermines the rule of law.

You talk about immigration overload Mr. Collins. Could you please explain it?

““Immigration Overload” is my term for America’s plight,” said Collins.  “But the special pleadings just keep coming. The latest cry for importing more cheap labor comes from virtually everyone associated with agriculture:

Congress must make a national guest worker program that’s easier for farmers to use now that states including Georgia have passed laws targeting illegal immigrants that threaten possible labor shortages in the fields, Georgia’s agriculture commissioner said Tuesday.

Agriculture Commissioner Gary Black’s main recommendation came in a report [PDF] that lawmakers required his office to produce last year when they joined with Arizona, Alabama and other states in passing harsh laws targeting illegal immigrants. Georgia’s main farm lobbying groups opposed the move, arguing that immigration should be left to the federal government and that a crackdown would scare away migrant workers needed to harvest crops in the state’s largest economic sector.

Its main recommendation echoes longtime complaints from farmers who have called the federal guest worker program unwieldy and expensive, a criticism that became more urgent once state governments launched crackdowns on illegal immigrants…”The only answer lies in the prospects of a 21st century guest worker program at the federal level that meets the needs of all types of agricultural enterprises,” Black said at a news conference.

 [Ga. ag chief: Congress must fix immigration system, by Ray Henry, AP, January 4, 2012]

“So don’t spend the money for machines that will do the job, but dump the eventual high cost of these aliens, many of whom will likely stay on, on John and Lucy Q Taxpayer!” said Collins. “That has certainly been the history.  But remember Tyson’s notorious importation of aliens to pluck chickens? The company has now gone mechanical and the need has been reduced.  We are in a technological age, where mechanical means can be found to do anything.

“Remember hand milking cows’ tender teats? Cows are now almost universally milked by machine—otherwise dairy farmers would be trying to bring in milkmaids by the hundred thousand.

“The AP article goes on to talk about the Federal guest worker program.”

[Ag Commissioner] Black [Email him] praised members of Georgia’s Congressional delegation for backing bills that he said would improve the guest worker program. He said the federal program should be run by U.S. Department of Agriculture, not the U.S. Department of Labor. He also said that instead of requiring farmers to provide guest workers with housing, growers should be allowed to give workers a voucher to obtain their housing elsewhere.”

“Talk about more entrenchment of imported foreign labor,” said Collins. “The farmers already have a legal guest worker program, [H-2A Visas] but they’re unwilling to pay for it. Then more boost for this guest worker concept at a time when we are badly in need of jobs. Has anyone heard of paying enough to get Americans to do the jobs?”

AP continues:

“In his recommendations, Black suggested that state agriculture officials could educate Georgia farmers on how to use the federal guest worker program. Many farmers told Black’s office that the federal program either would not work for their farms or they heard only bad things about it — or nothing at all”.

How many jobs are we talking about? AP’s story is not clear:

“Determining the economic impact of the new law on the agriculture sector remains extremely difficult. Black’s report offers some glimpses, though few firm answers.

Just over 20 percent of farmers who responded to a state survey said they hired fewer workers in 2011 than the average during the previous five years. Those growers cited factors that included a poor economy, loss of revenue, difficulties retaining workers and a lack of available labor. Black’s office said it was not clear whether any of the reported labor shortages were a direct result of the state’s crackdown on illegal immigrants.

Black said growers blamed labor shortages for causing $10 million in losses, and some farmers pinned the lack of workers on the state’s immigration crackdown. Those self-reported figures are imperfect because they came from a relatively small group of farmers.”

“In other words: more special pleading,” said Collins.  “Ag Commissioner Black’s final comment in this story is certainly correct:

“It shows that we have a problem,” Black said. “We can talk about the magnitude of losses, and they were substantial in Georgia, but really I think we get lost in this million versus that million. We have to look at solutions.”

“Which seem to me to be: pay enough that American workers will do the job. Or invent a machine,” said Collins. “Surely, with millions out of work and many no longer looking, the claim that there are “jobs Americans won’t do” is simply ludicrous. These special pleadings are never going to stop—because our Congress and other elected officials get paid to do the will of the pleaders.”

Donald A. Collins  is a long-time board member of the Federation for American Immigration Reform’s (FAIR).  He writes for www.Vdare.com and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Journal

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In a five minute astoundingly simple yet brilliant video, “Immigration, Poverty, and Gum Balls”, Roy Beck, director of www.numbersusa.ORG, graphically illustrates the impact of overpopulation.  Take five minutes to see for yourself:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjzfGChGlE&feature=player_embedded

“Immigration by the numbers—off the chart” by Roy Beck

This 10 minute demonstration shows Americans the results of unending mass immigration on the quality of life and sustainability for future generations: in a word “Mind boggling!”  www.NumbersUSA.org

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muw22wTePqQ

This is the best website to start:  www.numbersusa.org ; watch Roy Beck’s “Immigration by the Numbers” at 14 minutes. Bi-partisan and very effective. Become a faxer of pre-written letters to your reps to make positive  change.

Visit www.TheSocialContract.com for the best information on what we face as a civilization as to overpopulation, energy, immigration and much more.

Canada www.immigrationwatchcanada.org ; in Australia www.population.org.au and[email protected]; in Great Britain www.populationmatters.org ; and dozens of other sites accessed at www.frostywooldridge.com.   In Florida, www.flimen.org .

Must see DVD: “Blind Spot” www.snagfilms.com/films/title/blind_spot/ , This movie illustrates America’s future without oil, water and other resources to keep this civilization functioning. It’s a brilliant educational movie! www.blindspotdoc.com

Visit www.populationmedia.org for up to date information on overpopulation worldwide.

Must see: Rapid Population Decline, seven minute video by Dr. Jack Alpert-

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTWduFB_RX0

Must see and funny: www.growthbusters.org ; www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXSTrW_dARc
Dave Gardner’s Polar Bear in Bedroom:

growthbusters.org/2010/03/save-the-polar-bear-in-your-bedroom ; Dave Gardner, President, Citizen-Powered Media ; Producing the Documentary, GROWTH BUSTERS; presents Hooked on Growth: Our Misguided Quest for Prosperity, Join the cause at www.growthbusters.org ;760 Wycliffe Drive, Colorado Springs, CO 80906 USA; +1 719-576-5565

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Frosty Wooldridge has bicycled across six continents – from the Arctic to the South Pole – as well as six times across the USA, coast to coast and border to border. In 2005, he bicycled from the Arctic Circle, Norway to Athens, Greece. He presents “The Coming Population Crisis in America: and what you can do about it” to civic clubs, church groups, high schools and colleges. He works to bring about sensible world population balance at www.frostywooldridge.com He is the author of: America on the Brink: The Next Added 100 Million Americans. Copies available: 1 888 280 7715