How illegal immigration hurting Black Americans
The Senate heard testimony Wednesday that examined the impact of immigration on U.S. workers, and one of the more stinging rebukes of current U.S. policy came from an unlikely source – U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner Peter Kirsanow.
Kirsanow testified that blacks have been hurt more by President Obama’s immigration policies than perhaps any other subgroup of the U.S. population.
During that period, the U.S. has been importing about 1 million legal immigrants per year, along with 350,000 to 400,000 or more immigrants who hop the border illegally or overstay their visas and never go home.
“The evidence that we gathered shows that, unequivocally, the wage and unemployment levels of black Americans are disproportionately adversely affected by illegal immigration, particularly when it pertains to the effect on black males,” Kirsanow told the Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on immigration and the national interest.
“Since the beginning of the 2008 recession, there has been an increase of 2 million working-age blacks in the population,” he said. “However, during the same period of time, the number of blacks currently in the workforce was also 2 million less. So there has been no net increase in the number of employed blacks despite a substantial increase in the black population. And what’s curious about that, though, is that during the same period of time, 4.4 million more foreign-born workers were employed in the United States.”
Indeed, research shows that immigration accounts for 40 percent of the 18-point percentage decline in black employment levels in the last several years, he said.
“An 18-point decline is hundreds of thousands of blacks without jobs,” Kirsanow concluded. “In addition to depressing black employment levels, the evidence that we adduce shows that illegal immigration – frankly any low-skilled immigration – tends to drive down the wages of jobs that are available for black Americans.”
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Apparently, the rain helped stop the riot. Four years ago, on the day after Martin Luther King Day, an Hispanic policeman in Miami killed a black motorcyclist and his passenger with a single gunshot. The death led to three days of rioting in Overton, Liberty City and Coconut Grove, the very poor, mostly black sections of the city.
When the Colombian-born officer was acquitted of manslaughter over Memorial Day weekend, there were fears of renewed rioting. But a strengthened police presence, the calming influence of community leaders, and an unseasonably chilly rainstorm reduced the feared rioting to a few scattered disturbances.
The most frequent explanation offered for an outburst following acquittal of a police officer is racism. Certainly racism or at least the perception of racism is a partial explanation. But there is a more direct catalyst for these outbursts. That catalyst is immigration.
Do immigrants replace native born workers or merely displace these workers who move on to other, perhaps better, jobs? When viewed in terms of overall American society, this question has not been conclusively answered. When the question is restricted to the urban, mostly black underclass, there is no doubt. Immigration is devastating.
The effect of immigration on poor blacks has long been noted. In Los Angeles recently, President Clinton was angrily questioned by a young black man about reducing continued, widespread immigration. Few, however, have considered the link between immigration and affirmative action. What happens to affirmative action when immigration turns a minority into the majority?
Miami may be the most dramatic example of how immigration and affirmative action can conflict. Although it is now "the capital of Latin America," prior to 1959 there was little Hispanic influence in Miami. Then, the first wave of Cubans, the professionals fleeing Castro, arrived. There have been other surges of Cuban refugees since, sudden influxes like the Mariel boatlift of the early '80s. Those fleeing the poverty, wars and dictatorships of the Caribbean and South and Central Americas have further swollen the city's Hispanic population.
While no single group dominates Miami, Hispanics are clearly in the ascendancy. The Anglo share of the population has plummeted from 80 percent to barely 30 percent in three decades. In that time Hispanics have grown from 5 percent to 50 percent of the population. Blacks have remained around 20 percent.
Blacks have remained in poverty as well. In 1960, black and Hispanic family incomes were virtually identical. Today, blacks are caught well below the poverty line while Hispanics have risen well above it. Their success has often come at the expense of blacks. One example of this displacement is gas station ownership. In 1960, blacks owned one-fourth of all gas stations in Dade County. Twenty years later, their market share had dropped to less than one-tenth. By then Hispanics owned nearly half the stations in the county.
Affirmative action has not kept pace with these demographic and economic shifts. The affirmative action programs for the Dade County school board and fire department are typical. Hispanics, blacks, Asians, Native Americans and women are all considered eligible minorities.
The minority business program for the City of Miami is less typical but perhaps more instructive. Initially, the program had goals of 25 percent Hispanic and 25 percent black participation in city contracting. When women joined the program, the total goal was raised to 51 percent. No explanation was offered for this particular number, which was seemingly chosen since it can be divided equally among the three groups.
http://www.wnd.com/2016/03/civil-rights-commish-blacks-hammered-by-illegal-immigration/
Sanctuary for illegals becomes blacks worst nightmare
California is now a “sanctuary state,” thanks to Gov. Jerry Brown and liberal Democrats in Sacramento.
The Golden State is home to an estimated 2.3 million illegal aliens. And police are no longer permitted to ask suspects about their immigration status or assist with federal immigration-enforcement activities.
To add insult to injury, liberals tried to free Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, the illegal alien and seven-time felon who was acquitted of ******* and assault in the 2015 San Francisco fatal shooting of 32-year-old Kate Steinle. Fortunately, Garcia Zarate will not be released for “time served.” He’s been indicted by a federal grand jury for violating state immigration and gun laws and will remain in custody to face federal charges.
Yes, California voters are dumb for voting in liberal Democrats who continue to pass laws that endanger citizens.
For black Americans who might not understand this – you too will be impacted! Now that California has been designated a “sanctuary state,” illegal aliens, including MS-13, will flock to the state in droves and they’ll end up in the black community.
For the past 27 years, my nonprofit organization, BOND, has been trying to educate blacks on this issue with town hall forums, media, rallies, etc. Along with groups like FAIR, California Coalition for Immigration Reform and the late Terry Anderson, we’ve been warning the state and the nation of what was coming, but most blacks refused to listen.
We couldn’t get blacks to support a border wall or to vote against liberal Democrats who are selling them out for the Hispanic vote. Most blacks are so brainwashed by their godless black leaders, they’re willing to vote against their own self-interest. They blindly follow corrupt Democrats like Barack Obama, Maxine Waters, Karen Bass, Kamala Harris, Mark Ridley-Thomas and others who use them.
All Democrats have to do is accuse anyone who opposes illegal immigration of being “racist,” and that’s enough to put blacks in a hypnotic trance and make them vote for Democrats.
The illegal immigration issue is out of control. The Hispanic population is growing rapidly, and it’s flexing its political muscle. There’s a warfare brewing between black and Hispanic gangs in Los Angeles, and it’s just a matter of time before it explodes. As a result, decent blacks are fleeing California and moving down south.
http://jesseleepeterson.com/press-article/sanctuary-illegals-becomes-blacks-worst-nightmare