Video: Immigration 'reform' adds 33 million competitors to jobless Americans
More than a thousand lobbyists for corporate special interests are pushing legislation to keep the U.S. labor market loose and to lower the wages of most U.S. workers, both foreign-born and U.S.-born.
The Senate Gang of Eight immigration bill would offer a minimum of 33 million lifetime work permits in the first decade alone (11 million [to 40 million] to current illegal aliens), 11 million to new legal immigrants in a continuation of the current system, another 5 million chain migration relatives of immigrants who have applied but are waiting for their slot in other countries and 6 million new immigrants through new categories and expanded existing categories of immigration). The 33 million in a single decade is almost half of all immigrants who have ever entered the U.S. in its history.
20 million Americans want a full-time job but cannot find one. This disenfranchised population is disproportionately less educated (no college), disabled, veterans and Black and Hispanic Americans).