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No Joke: Obama Wants to Add 34 Million Workers to Stagnant U.S. Labor Market

Published on October 22nd, 2014

By Joe Guzzardi
October 22, 2014

The disclosure that Obama administration has started the ball rolling on what would eventually be 34 million new green cards and work permits for illegal aliens and overseas workers should send chills up blue collar Americans’ backs.  According to a confidential U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services (USCIS) document, a draft solicitation requesting bids from vendors for a “surge” of up to 9 million identification cards in one year has been sent out “to support possible future immigration reform initiative requirements.” The request says USCIS estimates that the entire supplier contract will be for 34 million cards over the next few years.

The significance of 34 million is readily apparent to immigration policy analysts. The total is almost exactly the number of work permits that would have been issued to foreign-born workers if last year’s Senate bill had become law. After studying S. 744, researchers estimates ranged from between 27 and 35 million new visas would be distributed during the next decade. Since the bill that Obama once described as a top domestic priority didn’t pass, Capitol Hill insiders anticipate that an angry and frustrated president will act through a series of executive orders.

To measure the overwhelming affect adding 34 million more workers to an already glutted labor force would have, consider that until 1980 the U.S. brought in about 3 million immigrants each decade, an average of approximately 300,000 annually. Today, legal immigration runs about 10 to 11 million per decade.

Massive immigration translates to a war on American wage earners and the working-age unemployed. Every green card is a lifetime work permit which means the 92 million Americans not attached to labor force will have to compete with 34 million new workers, many of whom are willing to perform any available job for less money.

Huge immigration increases disproportionately hurt less educated, lower skilled Americans, especially minorities. And among minorities, the irrefutable evidence is that none are more harmed than African-Americans. Harvard professor George Borjas and the National Bureau of Economic Research found that from 1960 through 2000, wages of black Americans fell precipitously. During that era, the foreign labor supply in the U.S. increased sharply, mostly because of the 1965 Immigration and the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Acts. Immigration has continued to spike since 2000.

Borjas and other scholars concluded that a 10-percent immigrant-induced increase in the labor supply reduced black wages by 4 percent and lowered the overall employment of black males by 3.5 percent. During the Obama administration, blacks have lost ground in every leading economic measure. Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor Statistics data show that black unemployment, poverty, median income and educational attainment have been worse under Obama than any previous president. If Obama makes good on his amnesty threat, African-Americans economic stability will deteriorate even faster than it has to date.

Despite a near tripling of legal immigration over the last three decades and even though the Legislative, not the Executive Branch, has responsibility for immigration, Obama recently told an audience of open borders activists that he’s “not going to give up the fight until this gets done.”

By “this” Obama means forcing his unconstitutional amnesty on a rebellious American public. A more accurate interpretation of “this” is American workers’ devastation and the historic American nation’s destruction.

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Joe Guzzardi is a Californians for Population Stabilization Senior Writing Fellow whose columns have been nationally syndicated since 1987. Contact him at [email protected]

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