Executive
amnesty is unfair to American workers struggling to stay in the middle
class or looking for a clear shot to work their way up into the middle
class.
No
executive order can repeal the law of supply and demand. President
Obama himself wrote in his 2006 autobiography about the harm mass
immigration (including illegal immigration) does to American workers:
"The number of immigrants added to the labor force every year is of a magnitude not seen in this country for over a century. If this huge influx of mostly low-skill workers provides some benefits to the economy as a whole...it also threatens to depress further the wages of blue-collar Americans and put strains on an already overburdened safety net."
--- Barak Obama, The Audacity of Hope, 2006
74 percent of midterm voters want President Obama to work with Congress, not go it alone on immigration.
80% of voters want "new jobs created by the economy to go to American workers and legal immigrants already in the country."
"The President will arrogate to himself the sole and absolute power to decide who can work in the U.S., who can live in the U.S., and who can claim benefits in the U.S. -- by the millions. His actions will wipe out the immigration protections to which every single American citizen is lawfully entitled."
--- Sen. Jeff Sessions, "No Surrender On Immigration," Politico, November 10, 2014
The GOP must stop executive amnesty to keep it's promise to voters.
Immigration
contributed greatly to the malaise midterm voters felt about the
economy. After the election, Speaker Boehner and incoming Senate
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell wrote in the Wall Street Journal:
"Americans have entrusted Republicans with control of both the House and Senate. We are humbled by this opportunity to help struggling middle-class Americans who are clearly frustrated by an increasing lack of opportunity, the stagnation of wages, and a government that seems incapable of performing even basic tasks."
--- John Boehner and Mitch McConnell, "Now We Can Get Congress Going," November 5, 2014.
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