Speech #1130121703

I am going to grant you 5 million or so permits to work. then it will put this President in a category all by himself. He will no longer be tied with the Carter administration as presiding over the highest number of Americans giving up hope of finding work. It will propel him into a league all of his own because it only makes sense that if you are giving 5 million legal work permits to people who are here illegally. they will then be able to offer their services cheaper than union workers and other workers who are here getting a proper wage. and it will displace millions more Americans from the jobs they currently hold. You can anticipate that. not immediately. but in the months ahead if the President does this unconstitutional act because he is tired of waiting on Congress to change the law the way he has dictated. and he has decided to dictate new law to America. Well. that is unconstitutional. and it is illegal. But the good news for the President is it will propel him out of the tie with the Carter administration for the most Americans giving up hope of finding employment and get him to the alltime high that will likely remain for as long as there is an America. Well. this article from The Daily Caller today points out that: President Barack Obamas unilateral amnesty will quickly add as many foreign workers to the Nations legal labor force as the total number of new jobs created by his economy since 2009. The plan. expected to be announced late November 20. will distribute 5 million work permits to illegal immigrants and also create a new inflow of foreign college graduates for prestigious salaried jobs. according to press reports. Obama has already provided or promised almost I million extra work permits to foreigners. while his economy has only added 6 million jobs since 2009. Under the Presidents new amnesty plan. "up to 4 million undocumented immigrants who have lived in the United States for at least 5 years can apply. An additional I million people will get protection from deportation through other parts of the Presidents plan." according to a November 19 report in The New York Times. The 5 million total was attributed to "people briefed on his plans." the Times reports. The 5 million work permits will add to Obamas prior giveaways. which have provided work permits to almost I million foreigners. Since 2009. the U.S. economy has added only 6 million jobs. according to the International Monetary Fund. Further. it says: Not all the 5 million illegal immigrants who get permits will work. and many are already working under fake names or for cash. However. their new work permits will allow them to compete for jobs now held or sought by bluecollar Americans. including the many African American and Latinos who voted for Obama in 2008 and 2012. It would seem to me. Mr. Speaker. that if the President wants to do something about the massively unfair high unemployment rate for African Americans who are legal citizens that the thing to do would not be to give 5 million work permits to people that are illegally here so that they can knock more African Americans and more Hispanics out of the jobs they legally currently hold because they will work cheaper. probably without requirement for health benefits. My dear friend. STEVE KING. had invited me to Iowa. and I was visiting with a businessman there about their meatpacking plant where they had felt like. gee. they had to have illegal aliens doing the work because they were just jobs that Americans wouldnt do. And after a raid on their plant and illegal aliens were arrested. he reported that it turned out those were jobs that Americans just would not do at that price. But by raising the wages a couple of dollars and providing health care benefits. amazingly. they could find Americans who would do that job. So it seems that as this story is replicated around the country. there are not so many jobs that Americans wont do. it is that there are jobs that Americans wont do at the market rate.