Bush Immigration Proposal- LA TIMES asks about impact on American jobs.

[Eric J in MN]

Bush says his immigration bill will fill jobs Americans don't want.

The LA TIMES implies it may also fill jobs Americans do want.
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January 8, 2004
EDITORIAL
The Phantom Latino Bloc

President Bush's proposal Wednesday to create a class of legal guest workers in the United States is not accidentally timed. With the election season hard upon him, he needs to court the fast-growing Latino vote. Of course, there's no reason that a proposal created with politics in mind can't be good policy, and immigration could hardly be riper for reform. However, it's far from certain that his immigration proposal will, as he put it, "fill jobs Americans are not filling" ? or even earn him a bonus among Latino voters.

Immigration has been soaring ? it averaged about 1.4 million a year from 2000 to 2002, according to U.S. census data. The shadow economy occupied by illegal immigrants invites the exploitation of workers, and the cash economy deprives the states of precious tax revenue. Although many businesses benefit from cheap labor, most would rather avoid the public relations black eye that Wal-Mart recently received for its allegedly illegal cleaning crews.

Illegal immigrants fill many jobs in agriculture that Americans don't want to perform, but it's far from clear that a huge number of other jobs are unfilled. Business has shifted about 2.8 million manufacturing jobs abroad since 2000. The unemployment rate of black males between 16 and 24 is 52%, and blacks have lost a disproportionate number of manufacturing jobs.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-bush8jan08,1,4583275.story?coll=la-news-comment-editorials

[whathappened]

1. no green card

throw there asses back to mexico and let them come thru the broder the right way , this is just a ploy to undercut wages in the u.s. for big corp and nothing esle , these people are trying to make all our labor jobs as cheap low paying jobs , jr. makes it sound like it is just nothing he is doing , but all his b.s. nothings have added up to a big mess in this country

[Gin]

2. The Big Sucking sound is entering phase two....phase one

was the sound of jobs going south...and then to India and China.

Phase two is the sucking sound of our way of life and standard of living going down. We will all be in service industries.

The 3rd world countries will improve, and parity (the goal of global free trade) will happen as we sink to a new level.

That's the goal of the new immigration policy.