{"id":7202,"date":"2016-08-26T11:41:01","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T16:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/?p=7202"},"modified":"2016-08-26T11:46:21","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T16:46:21","slug":"fast-fact-on-immigration-who-said-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/26\/fast-fact-on-immigration-who-said-this\/","title":{"rendered":"FAST FACT question on immigration: Who said this? Was it &#8220;the radical fringe?&#8221; Anyone?&#8230; Jay Bookman?"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>\u201cThe number of immigrants added to the labor force every year is of a magnitude not seen in this country for over a century.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cIf this huge influx of mostly low-skill workers provides some benefits to the economy as a whole\u2014especially by keeping our workforce young, in contrast to an increasingly geriatric Europe and Japan\u2014it also threatens to depress further the wages of blue-collar Americans and put strains on an already overburdened safety net.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cNative-born Americans suspect that it is they, and not the immigrant, who are being forced to adapt\u201d to social changes caused by migration.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201c[T]here\u2019s no denying that many blacks share the same anxieties as many whites about the wave of illegal immigration flooding our Southern border\u2014a sense that what\u2019s happening now is fundamentally different from what has gone on before\u2026\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Barack Obama, 2006 <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2014\/11\/16\/shock-flashback-obama-says-illegal-immigration-hurts-blue-collar-americans-strains-welfare-video\/\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe number of immigrants added to the labor force every year is of a magnitude not seen in this country for over a century. \u201cIf this huge influx of mostly low-skill workers provides some benefits to the economy as a whole\u2014especially by keeping our workforce young, in contrast to an increasingly geriatric Europe and Japan\u2014it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7202"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7215,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7202\/revisions\/7215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}