Obama Plans to Give Amnesty to Illegal Invaders This Year: Roy BecK says No way Jose!

Standing Up To The Irrational: Can Obama Do It On Immigration? (strange Munoz utterings)

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By Roy Beck, Thursday, April 9, 2009, 11:06 PM

“It just doesn’t seem rational,” is how I was quoted in today’s New York Times front page story about Pres. Obama supposedly being committed to moving a mass amnesty forward this year. So, for about the next 12 hours, I answered phone calls from print reporters and did radio shows across the country. 

Despite the Times’ very difficult financial position and the hatred it evokes from a sizable part of the public, you can quickly understand its continuing power over the nation’s media when you are quoted in one of its controversial stories.

Every time it happens to me, my phone literally is ringing all day long from reporters, talk hosts, bloggers, researchers, foreign press, Hispanic press.

The New York Times still sets a lot of the agenda of the whole nation’s news media.

What got things going today was Julia Preston’s story that quoted a “senior administration official” under the headline:

Obama to Push Immigration Bill as One Priority

By the end of the day, nearly every open-borders group in America had sent out mass emails declaring victory and calling on their members to call the White House to tell them not to listen to the protests from groups like NumbersUSA.

Part of their excitement, no doubt, was that one of their own was the “senior administration official” delivering the pro-amnesty news.   Cecilia Muñoz, deputy assistant to the president and director of intergovernmental affairs in the White House, was until recently a vice president of the National Council of La Raza

Reporter Preston clearly understood that the chief problem with Munoz’s pro-amnesty comments was how they played against the nation’s terrible unemployment problem. She wrote this:

Opponents of legalization legislation were incredulous at the idea that Mr. Obama would take on immigration when economic pain for Americans is so widespread.

“It just doesn’t seem rational that any political leader would say, let’s give millions of foreign workers permanent access to U.S. jobs when we have millions of Americans looking for jobs,” said Roy Beck, executive director of NumbersUSA, a group that favors reduced immigration. Mr. Beck predicted that Mr. Obama would face “an explosion” if he proceeded this year.
“It’s going to be, ‘You’re letting them keep that job, when I could have that job,’ ” he said. 

In all my interviews today, I talked about two numbers that illustrate starkly the irrationality — and callousness — of any move toward an amnesty this year.

• 6 million — That is the estimate of illegal aliens who are holding down non-agricultural jobs in the U.S. Most of them are working in manufacturing, service and construction jobs that require no more than a high school education.
• Nearly 7 million — That is the number of Americans with no more than a high school education who are looking for jobs (primarily in manufacturing, service and construction) but can’t find one.

Cecilia Munoz is suggesting that her boss, Pres. Obama, thinks it is a good idea to tell those 7 million unemployed Americans that the jobs they want should continue to be occupied (permanently) by 6 million illegal foreign workers!

I’m hoping that is not Mr. Obama’s idea at all but what we were seeing was the result of Munoz drawing the short trial balloon and being the one who had to publicly float it to see if the American public is distracted enough not to notice what a crazy idea that would be.

But Cecilia wasn’t the only one trying to sell nonsense.  Reporter Preston quotes other Administration officials as saying that . . .

. . . Mr. Obama’s plan would not add new workers to the American work force, but that it would recognize millions of illegal immigrants who have already been working here.

That is another trial balloon to see if the public believes that illegal immigration is a victimless crime. Every manufacturing, service and construction job an illegal alien is allowed to keep tends to mean that an American stays unemployed.  Now that sounds like a good campaign theme for congressional re-elections.

Of course, maybe I was floating a trial balloon myself in talking about “an explosion” if Pres. Obama pushes an amnesty this year.  I am depending on Americans to stand up for themselves and speak up.  We certainly will give everybody a chance to do so through our Action Buffet system.  If you haven’t told the White House what you think of Cecilia Munoz’s comments this week, please do so now.

Cecilia says Mr. Obama will speak to the nation about his amnesty plans in May and then will bring “immigration groups” and other experts together during the summer to hammer out a plan.

But the Times story details no promise of bringing the amnesty to a vote this year.

I think the White House is waiting to judge the public’s reactions to the amnesty efforts before committing itself. If Americans sit on their hands every time a White House Official says something irrational about immigration, then the irrational may start to seem rational.

Looks like Mr. Obama may be depending on you to help him stand up to the irrational open-borders groups.

ROY BECK is Founder & CEO of NumbersUSA

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Hussein Obama: Grants Covert Amnesty to thousands of African Liberians

Hussein Obama: Grants Covert Amnesty to thousands of Black African Liberians on Temporary Protected Status

• that gives them time for green card marriages and more anchor babies

• my condolescences to Rhode Island for having  150,000 black liberians dumped on them by the State Department.

• When Is Obama’s Aunt going to follow deportation orders and leave? 

Thousands of Liberians who were counting down days before their fates could have been tossed up for mass deportations by the Department of Homeland Security, have been told they can stay for another 12 months. 

Rhode Island Senator Jack Reed, the leading proponent for Legislation to grant Liberians the path to citizenship, confirmed late Friday that President Barack Obama have granted a stay for tens of thousands of Liberian on temporary documents across the United States.  

“I am pleased that President Obama is extending Deferred Enforced Departure for Liberians living legally in the United States,” said Sen. Jack Reed. “This extension will prevent thousands of Liberians from being separated from their families and deported back to a country still rife with economic, social and political tensions,” Sen. Reed told The Providence Journal. 

An estimated 250,000 Liberians live in the United States , including up to 15,000 in the state of Rhode Island , making that community, not Minnesota , the largest per-capita Liberian community in the country.

Among them are 3,600 nationwide who have “temporary protected status,” a political profile for nationals of countries that are deemed by the U.S. government to be to unsafe to return to due to armed conflicts or environmental disasters.

For the past 10 years, Reed has been seeking legislation that would allow people who were brought to the United States under the temporary status to apply for citizenship.

He called Obama’s extension order “a critical step towards ensuring that hard-working people who have paid taxes and contributed to our communities are not forced to leave their homes.” He added, “In the long-term, we need to pass comprehensive immigration reform that once again includes my measure to allow Liberians to apply for citizenship.”

Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy also praised the president’s decision.

“This measure will ensure that the hard-working Liberian-Americans in Rhode Island and across the country will be able to remain in the United States . They have contributed to our society for more than a decade, becoming active members of our communities and providing for their families,” said Kennedy.

Mator Kpangbai, former president of the Liberian Association of Rhode Island, said Obama’s decision was “great news.” He said the decision provides another opportunity for Liberians to renew their case for permanent legal status.

U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat, told the Minneapolis Star Tribune that a bill was introduced in Congress on Thursday night that would do that, ending the limbo and annual petition for extensions that have been going on for