The Brutal Statistics of Naive Immigration Policies

The Brutal Statistics of Naive Immigration Policies

Mike Scruggs

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has two measures of the national employment situation. The measure most familiar to Americans is the unemployment rate based primarily on business surveys and government statistics. The standard or “U-3 unemployment rate,” in this survey, however, does not count those who have been looking for employment for over 12 months or those forced by economic causes to part-time work. Not counting these two important categories conveniently masks serious economic problems. The U-3 unemployment rate in March was 8.2 percent. The broader U-6 rate, which includes the longer-term unemployed and those forced to part-time, was 14.5 percent.

The second BLS method of measuring employment status is called the Household Survey. It measures the civilian labor force, full-time employment, and that part of the civilian population, which is not included in the labor force. The Household Survey has proved to be an invaluable analytical tool and has documented some distressing aspects of our national policies over the last 20 years.

Liberal pundits were pleased to revel in the drop of the U-3 unemployment rate from 8.3 percent to 8.2 percent in the March BLS statistics, even though the number of new jobs created dropped to 120,000 from 200,000 per month for several previous months. This curious phenomenon was a result of the decline of the labor participation rate. The March Household Survey revealed that over 1.5 million workers dropped out of the workforce between March 2011 and March 2012.

Furthermore, the Household Survey showed that seasonally adjusted employment actually declined by 31,000 in March. This is a dismal statistic, but there is even further cause for concern. In March, foreign-born employment rose by 194,000, while native-born employment declined by 225,000. This reflects national immigration policies gone mad. Unfortunately, this is not a one-month statistical quirk.

From January 2009, the month Barack Obama was inaugurated President, through March 2012, immigrant employment has risen 5.7 percent, and native-employment has declined 1.2 percent. In raw numbers, foreign job seekers took 1.4 million jobs, and native-employment declined by 1.55 million. There are other demographic factors gradually shrinking the U.S workforce—an aging native population and declining birth rates—but these factors do not account for the magnitude of this data. It is unequivocally clear that both illegal immigration and excessive legal immigration are displacing several hundred thousand American workers per year.

In fairness, to President Obama, we must admit that this sad misdirection of immigration policy was also very true of George W. Bush, under whom the enforcement of immigration laws at the workplace saw a marked decline. Obama, however, overshadows Bush in the boldness of his non-enforcement efforts and future plans.

The United States needs immigration policies that are good for American workers as well as the American economy and the general welfare of American business. Its current polices ignore American workers in order to provide ready cheap labor to some American industries whose financial contributions to political campaigns have sustained a very uneven balance of power weighted against American workers, many small businesses, and middle class taxpayers. American workers are not only being displaced, but competition with cheap imported labor has been holding their wages and standard of living down for at least two decades. The net annual impact on American workers has accumulated to well over $200 billion per year. The fiscal cost of illegal immigration is over $100 billion per year, mostly paid by state and local governments.

Most Republicans are now beginning to recognize the human and fiscal costs of two decades of thoughtless immigration polices that favored a minority of powerful business interests and the Democrat Party. California was once a predominantly Republican state. Ronald Reagan was governor from 1967 to 1975. Now it is an impregnable liberal Democrat bastion, one of the consequences of naïve accommodation to business and ethnic special interests.

I still hear a few Republican candidates make incredibly naïve or manipulative accommodations to terrible immigration policy including amnesty. One candidate told a crowd that “since we could not possibly deport 11 million illegal immigrants,” we should simply “document them to know who is here.” First of all, the idea that we must either round up 11 million illegals and deport them in some brutal manner or grant them amnesty is a false and manipulative dilemma. Preventing the hiring of illegal workers by requiring verification of their immigration status and enforcing the law will send most of them home at their own expense and drastically reduce the number coming here in the future. But simply “documenting” the illegals here is just another form of amnesty practically identical to Barack Obama’s “Administrative Registration.” Amnesty in any form or by any name is the worst and most costly and irreversible mistake America can make—we should have learned this from previous amnesties.

Establishing a good “guest-worker” system is a frequent naïve proposal unfettered to historical facts. We have thus far in history never had a guest-worker system that did not hurt American workers and taxpayers. They have all displaced American workers and suppressed the wages of those left. They actually increase illegal immigration. They have essentially subsidized selected industries at public expense.

In 1997, after several years of thorough study, the Joint Congressional Commission on Immigration Reform rejected the idea of a large national guest-worker program as “a grievous mistake.”

Reverend Theodore Hesburgh, President Emeritus of the University of Notre Dame, a distinguished member of the committee, carefully explained to the Senate and House Immigration Committees that while guest-worker programs have a seductive superficial plausibility, “we were persuaded after much study, that it would be a mistake to launch such a program.”

Reverend. Hesburgh summarized his remarks on a guest-worker program with this conclusion:

“We do not think it wise to propose a program with potentially harmful consequences to the United States as a whole.”

The Brutal Statistics of Naive Immigration Policies

Take it for what it's worth: Trayvon Martin Case: George Zimmerman NOT Being Charged

Chicago Now Blog
VERBATIM POST

I was told that the State of Florida is going to announce on Tuesday that there is not enough evidence to prosecute George Zimmerman.

This is a tip I got from a very close friend who would not make this up.

This person is very close to the Seminole County FL Sheriff's Department, and says that the cops are already getting ready for trouble in Sanford.

Again I have no confirmation of this outside of my source, but I do trust this person with my life.

Dangers of academia’s ‘indoctrination mills’

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum caused a bit of a stir last month when he labeled college campuses “indoctrination mills” that enforce a strict adherence to “politically correct left doctrine.” For conservatives, Mr. Santorum might as well have called the sky blue. But from the way the media and liberal pundits pounced on his remarks, you’d think he had said something profoundly indecent.

For decades, conservatives have documented and criticized how liberal ideology runs rampant throughout higher education. Hence William F. Buckley’s famous quip from the 1960s: “I’d rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.” Fifty years later, few conservatives would disagree.

But could the problem be getting worse? The Pew Research Center released a study in December showing that more Americans age 18 to 29 have a favorable view of socialism over capitalism. In fact, this demographic has a net positive view of socialism (49 percent positive to 43 percent negative) and net negative view of capitalism (46 percent positive and 47 percent negative). When Pew released an earlier version of the same study two years ago, this demographic’s views on socialism were exactly the opposite (43 percent positive and 49 percent negative).

More @ The Washington Times

‘Long Live Zimmerman’ Spray Painted On Ohio State’s Black Cultural Center

Come on you race pimps jump on this and page Obama.

Via Don

Officials say graffiti spray painted on the wall of a black cultural center at Ohio State University likely stems from the nationwide unrest over the fatal shooting of a black Florida teenager.

The graffiti painted early Thursday said “Long Live Zimmerman.” Columbus media outlets report that officials believe it’s a reference to George Zimmerman, the neighborhood-watch captain accused of killing 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla., in February.

More @ CBS Cleveland

Buffaloes, Renegades and Thieves in Bertie County NC

North Carolina War Between the States Sesquicentennial

www.ncwbts150.com

"The Official Website of the North Carolina WBTS Sesquicentennial Commission"

Buffaloes, Renegades and Thieves in Bertie County:

At least 805 Bertie County men served honorably in defense of North Carolina during the War Between the States; 63 would desert and adhere to the enemy. More than two hundred Bertie men would serve in the First and Second Regiments North Carolina Union Volunteers, the equivalent of Tories serving the British during the Revolution.

Upon the capture of Plymouth in 1863 by Major-General Robert F. Hoke of Lincolnton, twenty-two North Carolina deserters found in Northern ranks were executed at Kinston. Many blue-clad North Carolinians captured at Plymouth hid their identity and claimed to be assigned to other Northern regiments to escape execution – explaining how some 21 Bertie County men died at Andersonville. Author Gerald Thomas notes that “sufficient evidence exists that a number of the [captured] North Carolinians “assumed the roles” of Northerners.”

Charles Freeman of Bertie County enlisted in Company C, First Regiment North Carolina Union Volunteers, mustered in as private on 23 July, 1862 at age eighteen. Many North Carolinians who defected to Northern forces were said to have done so to escape Confederate military service and defense of their State; perhaps most adhered to the enemy to protect their families and property in enemy-occupied North Carolina.

Confederate deserter John “Jack” Fairless of Gates County organized, with the endorsement of Northern authorities, a company of fellow deserters and draft-dodgers “who would become notorious for their renegade activity.” Confederate military personnel and citizens in general scornfully referred to the men who served in Fairless’s company, as well as those in other eastern North Carolina Union units, as “Buffaloes”; the term became synonymous with “thieves” and “outlaws.” “Even Union military leaders in the area held [Fairless] in low regard.…[and referred to them as] “our home guard thieves.” Fairless was a habitual drunk and was shot dead by a deserter from the Nineteenth North Carolina Regiment, James Wallace, on October 20 [1862].

Read more at: http://www.ncwbts150.com/ActsofTreasonAgainstNorthCarolina.php

Buffaloes, Renegades and Thieves in Bertie County

White Gunman Goes On Killing Spree In Oklahoma: 3 Black People Dead, 2 Injured

Throwing more fuel on the fire. Page the race hustlers immediately and get Obama off the golf course for a public announcement, after all it's election year.......

Via Occidental Dissent

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Trayvon Martin case: Top Southern Baptist decries 'race hustlers'

Via Don

The Southern Baptist Convention has spent more than a decade trying to leave behind the racially divided past that created it.

Its leaders apologized for the Nashville-based denomination’s support of slavery in the 1800s — which led to its break from other Baptists. This year, they considered, and rejected, a name change some suggested would move the denomination forward faster. In June, they’re set to elect their first African-American president.

But some consider statements made Saturday by the convention’s top policy representative on his national radio show a setback. On Richard Land Live!, Land accused black religious leaders — whom he called “race hustlers” — and President Barack Obama of using the shooting death of an African-American teen in Florida for election-year gains.

“This will be vetted in court, not in a mob mentality that’s been juiced up by Al Sharpton, who is a provocateur and a racial ambulance chaser of the first order, and aided and abetted by Jesse Jackson,” Land said on the show.

And, on Obama’s statement that, if he had a son, he would look like Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old victim, Land said: “The president’s aides claim he was showing compassion for the victim’s family. In reality, he poured gasoline on the racialist fires.”

More @ The Tennessean

NRO fires John Derbyshire for telling the truth in his piece........

.........The Talk: Nonblack Version

Not that anyone reads the rag.

Anyone who has read Derb in our pages knows he’s a deeply literate, funny, and incisive writer. I direct anyone who doubts his talents to his delightful first novel, “Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream,” or any one of his “Straggler” columns in the books section of NR. Derb is also maddening, outrageous, cranky, and provocative. His latest provocation, in a webzine, lurches from the politically incorrect to the nasty and indefensible.

More @ The Corner

Your Tax Dollar at Work Abroad

An American reader in Singapore saw this poster for a truly vicious HBO hit piece on Sarah Palin:

What’s that down in the corner?

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Sanford (FL) Police deny any indication of neo-Nazis patrolling

And the truth? The deliberate spreading of lies is criminal and is going to cause violence and death. Considering the end results they desire, it is also treasonous.

"We have no indication of any such patrols at this point in Sanford. The only large gathering was the children and their parents at the Easter egg hunt.”

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The latest wildfire spreading through the media and blogosphere is that armed neo-Nazis are patrolling Sanford, FL, in anticipation of trouble if George Zimmerman is not charged in the killing of Trayvon Martin. In what has become a prime example of media malpractice, none of the major publications spreading the rumors bothered to check with local law enforcement. I did, and the Sanford Police deny any indication of neo-Nazi patrols.

It all started with this blog post in The Miami New Times, Armed Neo-Nazis Now Patrolling Sanford, Say They Are “Prepared” For Post-Trayvon Martin Violence:

Neo-Nazis are currently conducting heavily armed patrols in and around Sanford, Florida and are “prepared” for violence in the case of a race riot. The patrols are to protect “white citizens in the area who are concerned for their safety” in the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting last month, says Commander Jeff Schoep of the National Socialist Movement. “We are not advocating any type of violence or attacks on anybody, but we are prepared for it,” he says. “We are not the type of white people who are going to be walked all over.”

Because nothing diffuses racial tension like gun-toting racial separatists patrolling an already on-edge community….

The patrols are comprised of between 10 and 20 locals and “volunteers” from across the state, including some from Miami, he added. He couldn’t go into specifics on what kind of firepower, exactly, the patrols had with them.

The blog post quotes someone from a supposed neo-Nazi group in Detroit, and contains photos of armed patrols not in Sanford, but in Arizona. The author of the blog post provides no confirmation that such patrols actually are taking place.

The blog post already has generated over 1100 comments, and was picked up with reckless abandon by the usual suspects, including Charles Johnson at Little Green Footballs:

More @ Legal Insurrection