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"Alcibiades" <was-scipio@laced�mon.net> wrote in message
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> I'm surprised to still see these people showing up in Immigration fora
> claiming the Illegals and other 3rd-World Stormtroopers are here to
> take jobs Americans don't want. That is straight-up bullshit for all
> of us old enough to remember our communities before Illegals and
> visa-hires showed up, that's something we personally know not to be
> the case. Those readers who are younger should engage their
> imaginations a little bit and realize that Americans have always done
> every sort of job. The only time they could not afford to do them was
> during periods of, you guessed it, high immigration. You stop the
> immigration, wages float back up, and Americans come in to get them.
> That's how it's worked for over 200 years.
>
> The only practical effect of supporting Illegals and visa workers is
> to lower wages and make all of us poorer. There IS no benefit. It's as
> simple as that. Persons who come on here talking like libertarian
> business wonks, making light of other people's unemployment or reduced
> incomes, well, they are just bad apples.
>
> Here is an interesting report from an APR frontpage link:
>
> http://www.gopusa.com/news/2005/november/1123_immigration_ad.shtml
>
> Foreign Workers Taking Jobs Americans Want, Group's Ad Says
> By Melanie Hunter
> CNSNews.com Senior Editor
> November 23, 2005
>
> (CNSNews.com) -- A coalition of trade groups has launched a television
> ad campaign to address immigration and the notion that "foreign
> workers do jobs Americans won't do."
>
> The Coalition for the Future American Worker (CFAW) said its campaign
> is directed at President Bush and features blue-collar and service
> employees urging the president to cut the number of foreign workers
> allowed to enter the country. Bush has praised foreign labor for
> taking jobs Americans won't do, but that's a fallacy, the group said.
>
> "This public education campaign is long overdue. Hardly anybody is
> standing up for American workers and blue-collar families any more,"
> said CFAW spokesman Roy Beck.
>
> "Yet, they are the ones disproportionately affected by these
> uninhibited flows of foreign labor. Americans' wages are being
> depressed, their jobs are being taken and they're helpless to do much
> about it," Beck added.
>
> In the commercial's opening scene, an unemployed man is sitting on the
> back steps of a middle-class home, saying "President Bush says foreign
> workers do jobs Americans won't do. Mr. President, I'll do that job."
>
> Then the words "12 million Americans can't find a full time job" are
> featured on the screen.
>
> A hotel worker then tells Bush "if immigration increases, we'll have
> more foreign workers who will work for next to nothing. I need to make
> enough to feed my family." That is followed by a screen saying that
> foreign workers depress U.S. wages. The ad offers "educational facts
> throughout."
>
> According to Beck, all the jobs that are usually filled in high
> numbers by foreigners were recently filled by Americans.
>
> "The massive influx of foreign workers has collapsed one occupation
> after another so that they no longer provide middle-class wages and
> benefits," Beck said.
>
> For example, he said the meat packing industry once paid "good middle
> class wages" but after discovering that there is "an endless supply"
> of foreigners to fill those jobs, the industry has "dramatically" cut
> wages and safety conditions.
>
> "It's really a shame. Our misguided immigration policies are causing
> American workers to lose wages and eventually their jobs," Beck said.
> "The size of the flow of foreign workers into this country is
> unprecedented and undermining our entire middle-class society."
>
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> I suggest emailing this article to your friends.

Hank