Speech #1140008780

We had 127.000 net job losses. but that doesnt really tell the whole picture. We also had population growth in the 16 to 65 age bracket for Americanborn citizens during that 14year period of time. So do you know how many more Americans are unemployed todayjoblessin the 16 to 65 age bracket because of Americas faulty. porous like a sieve immigration policies? Seventeen million. And you wonder why our youth are despondent. you wonder why they are depressed with the job circumstances they face. you wonder why American families cannot earn a living with the wages that are now being paid. It is because there are so many people in the White House. on K Street. and other places who are lobbying the United States Congress to dramatically increase the labor supply by bringing in illegal aliens and lawful immigrants to suppress wages and to take jobs from American families. That is wrong. Now. you have heard the argument often raised: Well. Americans wont do those jobs. Let me tell you about those jobs for a moment. We have got two categories: illegal aliens and lawful immigrants. Well. you can make the argument that illegal aliens are seeking the blue collar jobs and that perhaps Americans wont do them at the suppressed wages now being paid. With respect to lawful immigrants it is a different picture. Over those 14 years. in that 16 to 65 age bracket. Americanborn citizens lost jobs while lawful immigrants gained jobs in these fields: engineering. architecture. health care. sales. office staff. Those are goodpaying jobs that when I was growing up American citizens used to be able to compete for and get but which are now being denied because of immigration policies. Those are sobering numbers. those are startling numbers. So sobering. so depressing. that I challenged my staff. I said. This report cant be right. So my congressional staff went to the raw data from the Census Bureau. the Bureau of Labor Statistics. and the Department of Homeland Security. and they confirmed that the Center for Immigration Studies data was correct. Which brings us back to President Obamas executive amnesty that does so much damage to American citizens. The House has done its job. We have passed legislation to defund executive amnesty to prevent the President from doing what he has been doing. The problem. as has been the last 4 years that I have been in the United States Congress and hopefully wont be the case for the next 2 years. lies with the United States Senate. Media reports say that we are in an impasse. that the Democrats are standing with illegal aliens and shunning American families and filibustering. And the Republican leadership is professing: We dont have the firepower. we dont have the 60 votes. we are stymied. we cant end this filibuster. Well.