Unemployed, Underemployed; Forgotten Americans?

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Copied from an email I received. I wonder if we are seeing another social shift; the previous minority fighting for American jobs with other foreign workers brought in on visas from other regions of the world. We, citizen’s of America, have no representation in the U.S. Congress.

DEAR FRIENDS OF AMERICA’S Forgotten UNEMPLOYED,

What a day!

I’ve been doing media interviews every hour and just got back to the office from doing the Kudlow show on CNBC. (You have to watch a short commercial before viewing.) It was three against one, and I apologize to all of you who I let down by not making the points that you wish I had made but I was out-shouted.

But watching the video may get your juices flowing about the crazy Establishment, power-elite, prevailing view that Americans don’t want to work. Everything about the bill screams, THE U.S. IS SUFFERING A LABOR SHORTAGE!

You see how hard it was tonight for me to give voice to the unemployed, underemployed and wage-depressed Americans? Well, it is going to take every one of us to get loud enough to be heard in the offices of 100 U.S. Senators.

BOTTOM LINE OF RELEASE OF AMNESTY BILL OUTLINE (as seen by Roy Beck)
You probably have seen a ton of references to the Gang of Eight’s release today of the OUTLINE (not the bill, yet) of its Monster Amnesty. Here’s the bottom line:

•Before any enforcement, the bill gives work permits and the right to live here and use the nation’s infrastructure to virtually all the estimated 11 million illegal aliens.

•It sets a lot of goals for implementation of enforcement promises made in the 1986 amnesty and the 1990 and 1996 immigration laws. Promises that were never kept. Like those earlier promises, this bill does not guarantee anything because there are no hard triggers.

•We don’t have the actual bill yet to calculate how much legal immigration will go up. It looks like the bill might increase new immigration in the first 10 years from around 11 million to 16-20 million! that’s in addition to the 11 million illegal aliens who will have been given work permits.
The minute that the Gang releases the actual bill, our staff will begin reading every page so we can report to you precisely what the bill will do. But the Gang’s outline released today supposedly was meant to be the best face of the bill. Not a very good face.

GETTING THE ‘FORGOTTEN UNEMPLOYED’ OUT FRONT IN THE MEDIA
The USA Today story this afternoon on reaction to the amnesty bill began with a not-very-profound comment from me, but maybe it is the message we want to get out through all social media, etc., the middle of this week:

WASHINGTON — When Roy Beck, of NumbersUSA, finally saw the details of an immigration deal brokered by a bipartisan group of senators on Tuesday, the outspoken opponent of granting legal status to the nation’s unauthorized immigrants had a hard time finding the right words to express himself;
“I just never expected the bill to be this bad,’ said Beck, executive director of NumbersUSA, a group that helped sink the last attempt to change the nation’s immigration laws in 2007 and is trying to do the same this time. 

After praise for the bill from Pres. Obama and other pro-amnesty folks, the story went on to quote me saying what I told a lot of other reporters: Aside from opening the door to legal status for the nation’s estimated 11 million unauthorized immigrants, Beck says the bill adds even more competition for unemployed Americans by bringing in a huge influx of foreign workers through visas for high-tech and low-skilled workers.
“Every politician that has run for office over the last 10 years has said, ‘Jobs. Jobs are No. 1.’ And yet, everything in this bill is about bringing in more people to compete for American jobs,” Beck said. “This whole bill is written as if the nation is in the throes of a terrible labor shortage.”
Read more at http://www.capitolhilldaily.com/

You can also read more about Roy Beck at https://www.numbersusa.com/content/blog/beckr

If you don’t think you are over taxed and under represented; how do you feel about this proposed plan?

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