Daniel Greenfield posts a must-read column today at FrontPageMag.com putting Obama’s amnesty edict in context of economic and political reality. Some excerpts:
Obama’s excuse for his illegal amnesty will be that the immigration system is “broken” forcing him to act. But when Obama says that the system is broken, he means that some parts of it still work and so he intends to break immigration all the way through to benefit his own corrupt political allies.
According to Obama our immigration system is broken because it doesn’t allow illegal aliens…to take American jobs. That’s not a broken system, that’s what the system is supposed to do. When illegal aliens aren’t allowed to legally take American jobs, that’s how you know the immigration system is working.
The immigration system is broken because it was reformed so many times that it makes as much sense as an outhouse on a space shuttle. Its main function now is to bring millions of people without jobs to a country where millions are out of work. Obama wants to fix that by adding millions more people.
Some Republicans would like to modify it to help Mark Zuckerberg bring cheaper third world programmers and engineers to replace the Americans over at Facebook. Why settle for just wiping out the working class, when you can also take out chunks of the middle class?
The Obama economy has created mostly low wage jobs. Those jobs continue to be filled by immigrants. There still aren’t enough jobs so Obama is proposing to create even less jobs by adding more immigrants… There is something broken here, but it’s not so much immigration as Obama and his party.
But the Democratic Party would rather have a voter than a worker.
Posted 11/20/14 by Andrew Lewis