After forgetting about his promise of immigration reform to liberals, Mexicans, and Central Americans for the past 6 years Obama suddenly switched back to community organizer and said 5 million illegal aliens in
Most Americans know we have a huge problem with illegal aliens as
estimates range from 11 to 30 million hidden in our country. One can't blame foreigners for wanting to
come to America
because of the poverty, crime, and hopelessness in many other countries.
Yet the action by our Emperor defies certain logical observations on
how to deal with the problem.
First, they are criminals under our current system. There is a legal process for immigrating to America and
they violated it. Millions of people
from around the world are on waiting lists to come here legally. What must they think?
Second, Obama says most of these people are migrant farm workers doing
work no one else wants. Such a claim
cannot be documented. Estimates of total
farm workers in the USA
from reputable sources say there are about one million farm workers in the
nation, between ¼ and ½ estimated to be illegal immigrants, in other words,
250,000 to 500,000. That is a far cry
from 11 million.
Third, Obama says most do not pay taxes. Pew Research Hispanic says 8.4 million of the
11 million undocumented workers are employed.
Obama's order covers 5 million of them.
However, the Obama Administration says most of the jobs they hold are
ones our citizens often do not want. So
if he is going to grant them legal status to remain and get them to pay taxes
the 5 million will have to move into the labor force and take 5 million jobs
from American citizens currently holding the jobs.
Why is that, because the alternative is much worse.
Here is an extract from a recent Forbes Magazine report on the
employed and underemployed in the USA .
Forbes Magazine
Louis Efron
Despite the significant decrease in
the official U.S. Bureau
of Labor Statistics (BLS) unemployment rate, the real unemployment
rate is over double that at 12.6%. This number reflects the government’s “U-6”
report, which accounts for the full unemployment picture including those
“marginally attached to the labor force,” plus those “employed part time for
economic reasons.”
“Marginally attached” describes
individuals not currently in the labor force who wanted and were available for
work. The official unemployment numbers exclude them, because they did not look
for work in the 4 weeks preceding the unemployment survey. In July, this
marginally attached group accounted for 2.2 million people. To put that in
perspective, there are currently 16 states in the U.S. with populations smaller than
2.2 million.
741,000 discouraged workers –
workers not currently looking for work because they believe no jobs are
available for them – are included within the list of marginally attached
people. Another 7.5 million were not considered unemployed because they were
employed part-time for economic reasons. Those people are also called
involuntary part-time workers – working part-time because their hours were cut
back or because they were unable to secure a full-time job.
When you look at state populations
– using the 7.5 million – the number represents more than the population of Washington , Massachusetts ,
or Arizona .
These numbers mean the U.S. has nearly
10 million workers only marginally engaged in their work situation. They don’t
contribute their full potential to their households, the economy or society in
general. While reporting a low, declining unemployment number may comfort
people, we can’t ignore the millions of workers feeling the pain of the real
unemployment number.
So, we have 10 million
legal Americans unemployed or underemployed and 5 million illegal aliens about
to join the "legal" work force.
If the undocumented workers with families, since the Obama strategy is
to keep families together, do not get work, they will be eligible for all the
benefits of the low income and poverty level Americans since they have children
legally in the USA
through birth or the Obama eligibility limit.
The additional cost to the government could total hundreds of millions
of dollars a year for these new benefits for millions of families.
We have a problem, but we
need a financially and socially viable solution. So far we have neither. All the president will accomplish with his
grand plan is the further polarization of American between citizens and
non-citizens, between races, and between political parties. Is this the kind of leadership we deserve
from our president?
.