Immigration Reform Equals Millions of Jobs for Citizens

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I find it interesting that few of our state and federal politicians really seem to understand how immigration enforcement and real reform could significantly impact the job situation in America. Or maybe they just don’t care. On the illegal immigration side, we have over six million plus illegal immigrants who occupy non-agricultural jobs in the USA which rightly belong to citizens.

President Obama wishes to spend billions to lower unemployment by a fraction while ignoring the illegal worker problem. After all, we have the federal government’s E-Verify System available NOW for employers to use to check the legal resident worker status of new hires, but it is not mandatory. The on-line and simple to operate E-Verify System could easily be used to check the legal resident status of existing workers. But of course this would take Congressional and Presidential action and require common sense. So you can see why Congress and the President would have a problem with this concept!

On the legal immigration side, why are we continuing to allow approximately one million legal immigrants into America each year when over 15 million citizens are unemployed? Of course if we include citizens who are working part-time but want a full-time job and can’t find one and the under-counted unemployed [referred to as the U-6 measure by our U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics] the U.S.A.’s actual unemployment rate is over 16%. We should basically halt all legal immigration except for legitimate refugees and Americans who marry overseas or have children while overseas — this number would be less than 120,000 per year.

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