Speech #1130121703

The surplus of domestic and foreign job seekers also helps ensure that U.S. median wages have flatlined since 2000. Economistsincluding Obamas top economic adviser say that wages stall when the labor supply is larger than the supply of new jobs. Down further: Obama has already provided or promised about 1 million work permits to foreigners since 2011. Since June 2012. Obama used the legally questionable Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals program to give work permits to almost 600.000 illegal immigrants. That DACA number may go above 1.5 million. In May 2014. Obamas deputies announced they would provide work permits to 100.000 spouses of universitytrained guest workers used by brand name companies. In October 2014. his deputies announced they would accelerate the paperwork for 110.000 wouldbe Haitian immigrants. allowing them to begin working in the United States long before they were due to get green cards. This is bad news for American workers. It is really bad news for American workers. and you would think it would come at a tremendous cost to the Democratic Party. which gets the huge majority of African Americans and a lesser majority of Hispanic and Latino voters. So this action to provide legal work permits to as many as 5 million people who are illegally here is a slap in the face. as hard a slap as you could give to Hispanics and to African Americans. whose unemployment rate is dramatically higher than it should be because this action that the President is about to take unconstitutionally and illegally for political purposes is basically saying to the masses. the millions of African Americans and Hispanic voters who are out of work: Look. we know you are going to always vote for us no matter how much damage we do to your lives. your employment. your ability to pay your bills. We know you are still going to vote for us no matter what because you havent figured out that Republicans. they want you to have a job. They want you to be able to provide for yourself.