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Last week, the CIS reported, "An estimated 6 to 7 million illegal immigrants are currently holding jobs. Prior research indicates they are overwhelmingly employed in lower-skilled and lower-paying jobs."  [Unemployment for Immigrants and the US-Born: Picture Bleak for Less-Educated Black & Hispanic Americans By Steven A. Camarota, February 2009]

Exactly what sort of jobs?

"Illegals are primarily employed in construction, building cleaning and maintenance, food preparation, service and processing, transportation and moving occupations and agriculture."

With the exception of agriculture, a majority of the workers in these occupations are native-born Americans. Thus, illegal aliens are taking jobs Americans are not only willing to do, but are doing, and taking 7 million of these jobs from young Americans now out of work.

By failing to enforce U.S. immigration laws, the government of the United States is selling America's working class down the river.

In addition to the 7 million illegals holding jobs, legal immigrants have another 15 million. In 2008, when Americans lost 3.5 million jobs, 144,000 immigrants were admitted every month.

Why do we have an open-borders immigration policy that annually allows in millions, legal and illegal, to compete for jobs, when 10 million Americans are out of work and half a million are losing their jobs every month? The political correctness and moral cowardice of our Lords Temporal, who refuse to call a time-out on immigration until our own people go back to work, is killing the American dream for millions.

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ORIGINAL: awmslave

Immigration creates jobs. US economy is so called "consumer based": Americans have everything, immigrants need everything. Illegals problem will be solved soon. It is called "comprehensive immigration bill" what will surface this year for sure in the same form as it was proposed a year ago and passing it poses no problem this time.

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But what about all of the social services illegals take away?

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ORIGINAL: awmslave

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But what about all of the social services illegals take away?

Social servants have more work too thanks to illegals: schools hire more teachers, hospitals more nurses etc....

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ORIGINAL: DeviantlyD

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ORIGINAL: awmslave

Immigration creates jobs. US economy is so called "consumer based": Americans have everything, immigrants need everything. Illegals problem will be solved soon. It is called "comprehensive immigration bill" what will surface this year for sure in the same form as it was proposed a year ago and passing it poses no problem this time.

But what about all of the social services illegals take away? I see it every day at work - illegals having babies because they know their child will be considered an American citizen and it's less likely they will get kicked out if they are the parent of an "American". Then there are those with babies already and they are on social assistance. That's just a fraction of it. I think a good start would be to create a law where a child born to an illegal will not have the luxury of American citizenship. They have something like this in Ireland. At least that would make illegals reconsider having a child just to stay in the country and those tax dollars would no longer go to children born to illegal immigrants.

This week, as a guest on a Spanish language radio show, President Obama stated his continued support for giving amnesty to 12 million illegal immigrants, which would force Americans looking for a job to compete with amnestied aliens for work.  (El Piolin Interview, February 18, 2009 and CBS4 — South Florida). … President Obama said: “We’re going to start by really trying to work on how to improve the current [immigration] system so that people who want to be naturalized, who want to become citizens … are able to do it; that it’s cheaper, that it’s faster, that they have an easier time in terms of sponsoring family members.” Following that, President Obama acknowledged what legal American workers already know intuitively — that amnesty is not in their best interest — but then endorsed amnesty anyway.  President Obama said: “And then we’ve got to have comprehensive immigration reform. … Politically it’s going to be tough.  It’s probably tougher now than it was, partly because of the fact that the economy has gotten worse.”  (El Piolin). According to the U.S. Department of Labor, over 11.6 million Americans are currently unemployed and the number of unemployed Americans has increased by 4.1 million over the past year.  (Bureau of Labor Statistics, January 2009).  Millions more have simply stopped looking for work.  Just last month, 598,000 Americans lost their jobs.  Particularly troubling among the unemployment data is the fact that certain minorities such as African-Americans are experiencing greater unemployment (12.6 percent) than the nation as a whole. President Obama also said his staff was working on amnesty already … Earlier this week, open-borders advocates suggested that they expect that Congress will debate amnesty legislation in the fall of 2009.  (NDN, February 20, 2009).  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s director of Hispanic media has confirmed the likely timing for debate as well.  (O Jornal, January 30, 2009). [Despite High Unemployment, Obama Puts Amnesty on the Agenda, FAIR Legislative Update, Federation for American Immigration Reform, February 23, 2009.]

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ORIGINAL: DesFIP

I don't know of any native born Americans who are anxious to spend every day, weather notwithstanding, shoveling horse shit. Every barn I know of depends on Mexican immigrants to take care of the animals. They ride in the trailers with the horses, sleep in the barns at shows to watch over them. Find me an out of work native willing to do this.

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ORIGINAL: mefisto69

I frequently speak (in Spanish..... yes - my family came from Spain ) with illegals....... most of them have absolutely NO desire to become American citizens - their hopes are to send back lots of $$$$ - build a big house and retire pretty in their own country. They have absolutely no intention of buying into our system of government, lifestyle or taxation even though they aggressively take advantage of the education and health systems.

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Oh really? And how are these extra social services being paid for? By taxes. Taxes that illegals aren't paying - at least not by all of them. What it really is, is an extra burden on an overloaded system. Haven't you heard how teachers in public schools have increasing class sizes, hospitals are definitely hurting for medical staff as it is. Though I'm sure there are hospitals that are fully staffed, there are a significant number that aren't. It isn't that there are poor nurses out of work - there just aren't enough. And what about programs like WIC? These social entities don't simply hire more people because more are using the system - those, like social workers, just have more work heaped on top.