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	<title>FrontPage Magazine &#187; Virgil Goode</title>
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		<title>Job Creation and Immigration</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 04:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are our current immigration policies creating jobs or taking them?]]></description>
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<p>Tucked in between dramatic stock market drops on Thursday and Monday, there was a little bit of seemingly good economic news on Friday morning. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the private sector added 117,000 jobs in the month of July.</p>
<p>But this news needs an asterisk.  As Chris Chmielenski of the immigration control organization Numbers USA <a href="https://www.numbersusa.com/content/nusablog/cchmielenski/august-3-2011/debt-debate-over-time-congress-lower-immigration-and-create-jobs">notes</a>, “that number still falls short of the number of jobs needed for the 125,000 work permits issued to foreign workers each month by the federal government.”</p>
<p>Despite the recession, the government continues to issue huge numbers of visas to foreign workers.  In 2010, we issued over one million permanent green cards.  Three quarter of these immigrants were of working age who are competing against Americans for jobs.  We also issue nearly a million guest worker visas each year.</p>
<p>This is not enough for many in Congress.  Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is reportedly planning to introduce another “comprehensive immigration reform” bill, which will grant amnesty to illegal aliens and massively increase legal immigration.</p>
<p>Knowing that this is going to be a tough sell in a recession, Sen. Schumer explained that he met with leaders of various pro-amnesty organizations and, “We decided we ought to start highlighting the fact that immigration creates jobs rather than takes them away.  Everyone agreed that is how we are going to start talking about immigration, as a job creator.”</p>
<p>Talk all they want, but our current immigration policies are taking jobs, not creating them.</p>
<p>On July 26, Sen. Schumer held a hearing to promote the idea that immigrants create jobs called &#8220;The Economic Imperative for Enacting Immigration Reform.&#8221;  The hearing focused on immigration of high skilled workers and entrepreneurs, but these are only a tiny proportion of all immigrants.  In 2010, only 0.2% of legal immigrants were investors, 5.2% received advanced degree visas, and 1.1% were listed as having “extraordinary abilities.”</p>
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		<title>The Fight for Real Immigration Reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 04:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is the Republican establishment up to the task? ]]></description>
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<p>Although the Senate is in recess, both Republicans and Democrats in the Senate introduced immigration bills in October to set the stage for debate on the issue through the election, the lame duck session, and the 112<sup>th</sup> Congress.</p>
<p>Sen. Robert Menendez’s (D-NJ) Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2010 makes the attempted amnesties from 2006 and 2007 look like Arizona’s SB 1070.  The bill is over 800 pages long, so anti-amnesty researchers have not had time to comb through every little detail, but what they’ve found so far is bad enough.  The bill will grant amnesty to every single illegal alien in the country.  It will increase legal immigration by millions, and will nullify all state and local laws against illegal immigration.</p>
<p>The bill also gives amnesty for social security fraud, and gives in-state tuition to illegal aliens.  Menendez’s bill incorporates the Uniting American Families Act, which allows homosexuals living in the US to sponsor their same-sex partners for citizenship.  Giving federal recognition to homosexual partners in an immigration act could be used as a precedent to impose legal homosexual marriage throughout the country.</p>
<p>The same day Menendez introduced his amnesty bill, Sen. Orin Hatch sponsored the Strengthening Our Commitment to Legal Immigration and America’s Security Act.  Unlike Menendez’s bill, it is only a few pages long.  It will prevent Obama from enacting amnesty measures through executive order, eliminates the diversity visas—which gives 55,000 unnecessary green cards every year by a lottery—and encourages states to assist enforcement of immigration laws.</p>
<p>This is a good start, but does not come close to fixing our disastrous immigration policy.</p>
<p>Republicans do not need an 800-page bill like Menendez’s, but there are a few simple principles that need to guide their policies. America must increase border security and interior enforcement against illegal immigration. We need to remove rewards for illegal aliens.  And we need to reform our excessive legal immigration policies to protect American workers and taxpayers.</p>
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		<title>Hate Crime Hypocrisy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 04:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it possible if blacks yell “beat whitey” and beat up whites that racial overtones might be involved?]]></description>
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<p>Two recent strings of racial attacks—one black on white in Des Moines Iowa, the other black on Hispanic in Staten Island, New York—elicited very different reactions from both law enforcement and the mainstream media.</p>
<p>Since April, Staten Island law enforcement filed 11 “bias related” crimes committed against Mexicans, 10 of which were perpetrated by blacks.  The <em>Los Angeles Times</em> gave an example on August 18 where, “a Mexican teen-ager was robbed by a young black man armed with a knife who used racial slurs.”</p>
<p>The real culprit to the liberals in New York are not the thugs who committed the crime, but conservative opponents of illegal immigration.  The <em>Times</em> continues,</p>
<blockquote><p>Jacob Massaquoi, a leader in Staten Island&#8217;s African immigrant community, said tensions had grown along with anti-immigrant sentiment in the United States, something they blame on Arizona&#8217;s crackdown on undocumented residents and conservative commentators such as Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck. &#8220;Their rhetoric is very personal, very inflammatory,&#8221; Massaquoi said.</p></blockquote>
<p>Massaquoi is just echoing Barack Obama who said in 2008 that &#8220;A certain segment has basically been feeding a kind of xenophobia. There&#8217;s a reason why hate crimes against Hispanic people doubled last year.   If you have people like Lou Dobbs and Rush Limbaugh ginning things up, it&#8217;s not surprising that would happen.&#8221;  Obama’s numbers, by the way, are fabricated.  In fact, the rate of hate crimes against Hispanics went down between 2007 and 2008.</p>
<p>Numbers aside, Obama and the LA <em>Times</em> cannot honestly believe that African Americans who are told by many of their leaders that Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck hate blacks are influenced by these shows.</p>
<p>When most people think of hate crimes, they think of a Klansman or a skinhead beating up a minority. Yet in Los Angeles County, 78% of Hispanic on black and 52% of black on Hispanic hate crimes are considered “gang related.”</p>
<p>I doubt that the Crips are tuned in to Rush Limbagh on their car radio while they commit a drive-by shooting against MS-13.</p>
<p>What about the Hispanic-on-white and Hispanic-on-black hate crimes?  The federal government does not report them!  While the FBI’s hate crime reporting sheet includes Hispancs as a victim group, they do not include Hispanics as offenders, and categorize virtually all of them as white.</p>
<p>In Los Angeles, where local police count Latinos as perpetrators, Latinos make up 69% of all anti-black hate crimes.  Latinos, meanwhile, are counted as white on black hate crimes by the FBI.</p>
<p>Thus, if the MS-13 retaliated against the Crips and yelled a racial slur in the process, this would be reported as a white-on-black hate crime.</p>
<p>Sure enough, the same people who blame attacks by blacks against Hispanics on opposition to illegal immigration are blaming the supposed rash of “hate crimes” against blacks on criticism of Obama.</p>
<p>According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, a “watchdog” group that paints mainstream conservatives and the Ku Klux Klan with the same “hate group” brush,  anti-black hate crimes are “the result of a racist backlash to the election of America’s first African-American president.”</p>
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		<title>Birthright or Birthwrong?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 04:14:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why exactly should citizenship be granted to the children of illegal aliens?]]></description>
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<p>In his address to the country on immigration last week, President Obama said that “being an American is not a matter of blood or birth.”  Our current government policy of giving automatic US citizenship to the children illegal aliens who are born on American soil makes being American solely a matter of birth.</p>
<p>Americans are quickly waking up to the disaster that is the arbitrary government policy of guaranteed automatic citizenship to the children of illegal aliens.  A Rasmussen Poll found that 58% of Americans opposed granting citizenship to the children of illegal aliens, while only 33% supported it.</p>
<p>Birthright citizenship creates a massive fiscal burden on the American taxpayer.</p>
<p>The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996 specifically states illegal aliens and even many legal immigrants are “not eligible for any Federal public benefit” with a few exceptions such as disaster relief.</p>
<p>According to the Pew Hispanic  Center, there are four million children of illegal aliens who received US citizenship by the sole virtue of being in the United   States.  Over one-third of these children lives at or below the poverty line and are eligible for a host of welfare programs that they would not receive were it not for birthright citizenship.</p>
<p>Additionally, Obama’s health care legislation created a huge loophole that allows illegal aliens to use birthright citizenship to receive government subsidized health care.  While there are verification loopholes, the legislation makes illegal aliens ineligible for taxpayer funded “Affordability Credits.”</p>
<p>However, the bill intentionally does not address what would happen if an illegal immigrant family had a US Citizen child.  According to Pew, 8.8 million people live in such mixed families.</p>
<p>The Congressional Research Service noted that under Obama’s legislation, “<em>it appears that the Health Choices Commissioner would be responsible for determining how the credits would be administered in the case of mixed-status families.”</em></p>
<p>In other words: Obama’s Health Czar will decide whether or not to give free healthcare to the families of illegal aliens.  I wonder what side they will rule on!</p>
<p>Birthright citizenship makes it much more difficult to enforce our immigration laws.</p>
<p>When an illegal immigrant is detained, they can use the fact that they have citizen children as extenuating circumstances that make them a “hardship case” when appealing deportation orders.</p>
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		<title>The Rule of Racial Preferences</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 04:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration's record of treating some more equal than others.]]></description>
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<p>Shortly after assuming his position, Attorney General Eric Holder called America a “nation of cowards” because we were too afraid to speak about race.  My former colleague Congressman Steve King (R-IA) recently tried to initiate a discussion, and the Democrats and politically correct Republicans are castigating him.</p>
<p>Rep. King told a talk show host that “the president has demonstrated that he has a default mechanism in him that breaks down the side of race &#8212; on the side that favors the black person.”  He stood by his remarks stating that there “appears to me to be an inclination on the part of the White House and the Justice Department and perhaps others within the administration to break on the side of favoritism with regard to race.”</p>
<p>What Rep. King said has considerable merit.  Leaving aside President Obama siding with black Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates over white police officer James Crowley without knowing the facts or his close association with the anti-white pastor Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s record as a Senator and President gives credence to the concerns raised by Rep. King.</p>
<p>President Obama supports racial preferences for blacks and Hispanics over whites and Asians in education and hiring.  During the 2008 election, the African American conservative Ward Connerly sponsored ballot initiatives in Colorado and Kansas stating “The state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting.”  Obama opposed the initiatives stating they are “designed to drive a wedge between people.”</p>
<p>During his four years a Senator, Obama never voted against the NAACP’s position on an issue.</p>
<p>Several recent incidents during his presidency provide additional fodder for Rep. King’s statement.</p>
<p>President Obama and Attorney General Holder have sued small towns without even accusing them of disenfranchising blacks, but they dismissed a complaint against voter intimidation against whites during the presidential election.</p>
<p>The Justice Department filed a claim against the town of Lake Park, FL to make the town of 9,000 change from electing their commissioners from an at large seat into gerrymandered districts where “black persons would constitute a majority of the citizen voting age population in at least one of the districts” with the explicit goal of promoting “black electoral success.”</p>
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<p>Compare this to how they treated the New Black Panther Party intimidating white voters.  During the presidential election, the Black Panthers were videotaped brandishing batons in paramilitary outfits outside the voting booths.  According  to an affidavit signed by poll watcher Bartle Bull, a liberal who served in the Civil Rights department under Robert Kennedy, one of the Black Panthers told white voters, “you are about to be ruled by the black man, cracker.” The Justice Department dismissed this complaint without giving any explanation.</p>
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		<title>Unemployment and the Immigration Glut</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 04:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coming to do the work Americans want to do. ]]></description>
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<p>With 10% unemployment, one would think that the government would consider lowering the number of green cards issued to foreign workers until Americans were back on their feet.  Amazingly, recently released data from the Department of Homeland Security shows that we have actually increased immigration.  Far from reflecting supply and demand, our legal immigration numbers continue to climb no matter the state of the national economy.</p>
<p>The latest figures come from fiscal year 2009.  The fiscal year began on October 1, 2008, which is when our economic collapse began and continued through September of 2009.  Over five million Americans lost their jobs over that period.</p>
<p>America issued 1,130,818 permanent green cards, 808,478 of which were given to immigrants of working age.  This is an increase over 2008 and 2007.  Excluding the extra green cards given after the 1986 amnesty, this was the second highest number of green cards issued since 1914.  From 2000 though 2009, we issued 10,299,430—the highest decade in American history.</p>
<p>In addition to the green cards, the government issued 881,840 temporary work visas and gave refugee or asylum status to 96,721 aliens.  The total increase to the American workforce was 1.75 million foreign workers. According to the Census Bureau, 1 out of every 6 workers is foreign born.</p>
<p>What are the possible justifications for this policy?  Are these immigrants taking jobs Americans won’t do?  With the unemployment rate at nearly 10%, no one can say this with a straight face.</p>
<p>Does this create diversity?  The pool of legal immigrants is rather un-diverse. Less than 10% of them come from Europe.</p>
<p>Does this decrease illegal immigration?  If that were the case, you would have expected the illegal immigration numbers to decline as legal immigration increased.  In fact, they have both skyrocketed.</p>
<p>Instead of talking about reducing these numbers, politicians are calling for raising the level of legal immigration.  Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Robert Menendez (D-NJ), and Harry Reid (D-NV) recently released an outline for their ideas for “comprehensive immigration reform.” They call for adding an additional 3.4 million family visas and 550,000 work visas.</p>
<p>In the house, Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) and Solomon Ortiz’s (D-TX) introduced the Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America&#8217;s Security and Prosperity Act (H.R. 4321) which makes the same proposals for increasing family and work visas, but one ups them by adding a special new visa category of 100,000 permanent green cards a year to go specifically to Latin American countries.</p>
<p>There are two bills in Congress that will reduce legal immigration.  Rep. Phil Gingrey’s  (R-GA) Nuclear Family Priority Act (H.R.878) will limit family based immigration and reduce 111,800 green cards.  Rep. Bob Goodlatte’s (R-VA) SAFE for America Act (H.R.2305 ) will eliminate the Visa Lottery category that grants 50,000 visas a year.  Unfortunately, the Republican leadership is not backing these bills and they only have 30 and 57 co-sponsors, respectively.</p>
<p>These bills are a great start, but even if they passed we’d still issue nearly one million green cards a year. If we really want to put Americans back to work, we need a moratorium across nearly all categories of legal immigration.  A moratorium will free up jobs for American citizens, reduce the stress on social services, and allow the immigrants already here to assimilate.</p>
<p>The only people who will lose out from a moratorium are the ethnic interests who want new constituents and the business lobbies who want cheap labor.  Unfortunately, both political parties are more concerned with the well-being of these special interests than the well-being American citizens.</p>
<p><em>Virgil Goode represented Virginia’s 5<sup>th</sup> Congressional District from 1997 to 2009.</em></p>
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		<title>The Real Immigration Solution</title>
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<p>In the wake of Arizona’s SB 1070, illegal immigration is at the forefront of national discussion for the first time since the defeat of amnesty in 2007.  Arizona’s law, which makes illegal presence a state crime, has rallied supporters of immigration enforcement.  The open borders lobby is pretending that the sky is falling and using the law to demand that the federal government grant an amnesty.</p>
<p>Lost in this debate is any discussion of lowering legal immigration levels.  In fact, many opponents of amnesty argue that while we need to stop illegal immigration, we should increase legal immigration.</p>
<p>Amnesty backers cannot deny that the 1986 amnesty failed to stop illegal immigration, so they now blame the problem on the fact that we did not increase legal immigration enough after the Act.  They argue we can prevent future illegal immigration by simply increasing legal immigration alongside an amnesty.  Luis Gutierrez’s amnesty bill includes a special visa to “prevent unauthorized migration” by simply increasing legal immigration from the country where illegal immigrants come from.</p>
<p>Most Americans do not know just how many legal immigrants we let in each year.  The Department of Homeland Security just issued their statistics for new legal permanent immigrants in 2009.  Last year, we issued 1,130,818 green cards, the fourth highest year since 1914.  From 2000-2009, we issued over 10 million green cards, the highest decade of American history.  Currently, there are 38 million immigrants, 24 million of whom are in the workforce.  This does not include temporary workers.  DHS did not release the 2009 figures yet, but they issued 912,735 temporary employment authorizations in 2008.</p>
<p>Most of these immigrants are low skilled and from the Third World.  Less than 10% of new green card holders are from Europe.  People of extraordinary ability, investors, and immigrants with advanced degrees made up less than 8% of the new immigrants.</p>
<p>Faced with these numbers, how can anyone argue with a straight face that we don’t admit enough immigrants?</p>
<p>Illegal immigration is a huge problem, and we need to step up enforcement and reject amnesty.  However, all the problems caused by illegal immigration are exacerbated by massive legal immigration.</p>
<p>Massive legal immigration undercuts the wages of American workers and causes unemployment.  Of the 1.1 million new green cards we issued last year, 808,478 were to working age immigrants.  During this same time period, over five million Americans lost their jobs.  With these numbers, there are no jobs Americans won’t do.  Harvard economist George Borjas estimates that American citizens’ wages go down 3-4% for every 10% increase of foreign workers—legal or illegal.</p>
<p>Massive legal immigration strains social services.  Illegal aliens are barred from most needs based welfare programs.  After being in this country for five years, legal immigrants are eligible for almost all government services.  Although there are loopholes and weak enforcement mechanisms, illegal aliens are still banned from receiving benefits in Obamacare.  However, the bill specifically eliminated the five year wait period in the public charge doctrine, which will allow legal immigrants access to government healthcare the moment they set foot on American soil.</p>
<p>Massive legal immigration endangers national security.   The vast majority Muslim legal immigrants do not support terrorism, but their large numbers allow terrorists to blend into the immigrant community.  The Center for Immigration Studies analyzed every Islamic extremist known to be involved in terrorist plots from 1993 through the September 11 attacks.  Of the 48 terrorists, 36% were naturalized citizens or had permanent green cards, 33% had temporary visas, 6% were asylum applicants, and only 25% were illegal aliens.</p>
<p>Finally, massive legal immigration causes massive illegal immigration.  As legal immigration has increased since Ted Kennedy’s 1965 Immigration Act, illegal immigration has risen alongside it.  The top sending countries for legal immigration are also the top sending countries for illegal immigration.  In another report by the Center for Immigration Studies, “Two Sides of the Same Coin: The Connection Between Legal and Illegal Immigration,” Jim Edwards explains that “The incentive to immigrate to the United States arises from opportunity, the experiences of relatives or peers, and other forces. Liberal family-based immigration preferences, along with myriad nonimmigrant visa classes from tourist to student to business investor, provide ample immigration opportunity to many more people. Whereas one might not otherwise have contemplated uprooting and moving halfway around the globe before, the existence of opportunity affects one&#8217;s decisions.”</p>
<p>When told the facts, the American people almost unanimously support cutting back on immigration.  In February, a Zogby poll asked, &#8220;putting aside the question of legal status for a moment and focusing only on the totals, is the number of immigrants entering the country each year too high, too low, or just right.&#8221;  67% said the number was too high, 14% said it was just right, and only 4% said it was too low.</p>
<p>Individual legal immigrants are not to blame for these problems.  They came here in search of a better life and played by the rules.  The real culprits are the politicians who put cheap labor ahead of the interests of the American people.  With 25 million out of work, it’s time to put the American citizens first by issuing a moratorium on legal immigration.</p>
<p><strong>Virgil Goode served as a Republican member of the </strong><strong>United States</strong><strong> House of Representatives from 1997-2009, representing the 5th congressional district of Virginia.</strong></p>
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