Slithering Senator McCain
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Posted by Mike Scott on December 12, 2009 at 10:40:19
Senator McCain was recently quoted, “that he wasn’t privy to what the Obama administration and its congressional allies are considering. And, that he wouldn’t support any plan that doesn't include a temporary-worker program or continued efforts to secure the borders”. An amazing statement in light of our serious unemployment crisis.According to the Department of Labor, nearly 16 million American workers are looking for jobs. Our jobless rate is 10% nationally, and 12.7% here in California. According to CNN, the 16 to 24 working age group, - - all people in that age group available for full time work have a 19 percent unemployment rate, nearly double the national average. For young African-Americans it’s 29 percent unemployment, and for young Latinos unemployment is at 21 percent. Many of these figures apply to unskilled & less-educated Americans who are forced to compete with illegals for the same jobs. It’s unconscionable that 5.4% (Pew Hispanic Center) of our work force is comprised of 8.3 million illegal immigrants, jobs that should be taken by millions of less-educated, low-skilled Americans. No American should ever be jobless while millions of illegals remain employed. Our jobless rate won’t drop below 9% through 2010.
It should come as no surprise to McCain that the current immigration reform legislation working its way through Congress looks like a replay of the failed 2007 bill. Vague promises of border enforcement sometime in the future, amnesty for 12 million illegal immigrants, and a guest-worker program that will admit hundreds of thousands of foreign workers each year. It’s tragic & shameful that some in Congress, on the subject of illegal immigration, come to deceive rather than tell the truth, or serve our national interests.
Did it ever occur to McCain that stealth & flawed governmental intervention in the domestic job market to obtain more cheap foreign labor through guest worker visas are acts of shameful malfeasance?