December 8, 2009

D.A. King Guest Column on the Insider Advantage Georgia Website today: Predicting the future on today’s Obama jobs speech

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Dec 8 2009
D.A. King Guest Column: Predicting the future on today’s Obama jobs speech

Having held yet another “summit” last week – this time to get ideas on how to reduce American unemployment – President Obama is scheduled to deliver a speech on how to jump start job creation today.

Statistics showed a loss of 11,000 jobs last month. I heard a CNN talking head tell viewers the other day that there are at least six applicants for each available job.

The unemployment rate dipped from 10.2 percent in October to 10 percent in November. Many economists put the actual unemployment rate at 17%. About 190,000 jobs were lost in October.

One pundit puts it this way: “Unemployment isn’t just worse than Obama said it would be with the stimulus. It’s even worse than he said it would be without the stimulus.”

Using the most positive figures, about 16 million Americans are out of work.

At an event Friday, Obama made the remark that “we need to grow jobs and get America back to work as quickly as we can.”

As a long-time American who studies the organized crime that is illegal immigration, which is directly related to Americans going without jobs in their own country (it is also directly related to national security, education, health care, public benefits and services, wasted tax dollars and the rule of law… but that is another column or two) please allow me to play prophet for a minute on what the president will not say today about putting Americans back to work;

Obama will not acknowledge that we could put at least 8 million Americans in jobs tomorrow if we would only enforce existing immigration and employment laws today.

I’ll paint your house if you hear Obama mention the statistics from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that reveal significant drops in work site enforcement activity since Inauguration Day. Administrative arrests (arrests of “undocumented workers” who will be placed into deportation proceedings) have dropped 68 percent, criminal arrests are down 60 percent, criminal indictments have fallen 58 percent and criminal convictions are down 63 percent.

So much change… in only one year!

Last week, the American president pledged to pursue “every additional and responsible step” to speed up job creation, according to the Associated Press.

On the list of things the president will not mention, let’s include the fact that despite fuzzy claims our borders now being secure, U.S. Border Patrol apprehended 556,040 new “undocumented workers” illegally crossing our borders in Fiscal Year 2009, ending 30 September. Optimistic official estimates are one in four or five illegal alien crossers are captured at the border.

I am positive he will not do the math for us.

I’ll go out on a limb and predict that the president of hope and change will not acknowledge that legalizing the millions of illegals now here will only encourage more illegal labor to come for a better life and take even more American jobs.

I will agree with my friend Roy Beck who runs the well respected Washington D.C immigration watchdog organization, NumbersUSA, when he notes that the fact that hundreds of thousands of additional Americans could be working a year from now by changing immigration quotas now. A no cost job creation option.

Another look into the future: Obama will not propose that we make the federal ‘E-Verify’ employment eligibility verification data base mandatory for employers who are hiring in an effort to give jobs only to lawfully present workers.

I predict that under no circumstances will Obama remind us that Barbara Jordan, who chaired the Bill Clinton appointed Commission on Immigration Reform, recommended to Congress that such a system be used… in 1995.

In the political crystal ball of future Obama suggested fixes for the unemployment crisis, I don’t see the leader of the American people promising to obey the law and remove the illegal alien job thieves from the work force. Or to punish the criminal employers who are still paying black market foreign labor instead of their fellow Americans.

You don’t have to be a 21st century Nostradamus to see the political priorities involved on this one.

D.A. King, a nationally recognized authority on illegal immigration is president of the Georgia-based Dustin Inman Society. www.TheDustinInmanSociety.org