Washington Times
By Dave Boyer
October 27, 2014
A
member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights told President Obama
Monday that the administration’s reported plan to grant work permits to
millions of illegal immigrants
of illegal immigrants would have a harmful effect on black American
workers.
Peter
Kirsanow, a Republican appointee to the panel, said in a letter to the
president and to the Congressional Black Caucus that issuing millions of
work permits to potentially
low-wage workers “will devastate the black community.”
“Such
an increase in lawful workers would have a deleterious effect on
low-skilled American workers, particularly black workers,” Mr. Kirsanow
said. “Illegal immigration
has a disparate impact on African-American men because these men are
disproportionately represented in the low-skilled labor force.”
The
president is planning to issue an executive order after the Nov. 4
election that many predict will grant temporary legal status for a
significant portion of the estimated
11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S.
The
Department of Homeland Security last week issued a draft contract for a
large purchase of paper, asking for the contract to cover an
anticipated “surge” in demand
for so-called green cards. A White House spokesman denied that there
was a covert plan to issue up to 5 million work permits per year, saying
such orders of paper are routine and that Mr. Obama has yet to announce
a decision.
Mr.
Kirsanow, who said he was not speaking for the whole commission, urged
Mr. Obama to “forgo” an executive order, saying that granting legal
status to millions of illegal
immigrants would depress wages for all racial groups. He said black
workers’ wages have been the slowest to recover from the recession.
“Granting
legal status to millions of people who are in the United States
illegally will continue to depress the wages and employment
opportunities of African-American
men and teenagers,” he said. “It also will depress the wages and
employment opportunities of African-Americas going forward.”
But
the pressure on Mr. Obama from his own supporters to act unilaterally
on the immigration issue is rising, especially with the prospect of a
Republican-dominated Congress
after next week’s midterm vote. Janet Napolitano, Mr. Obama’s first
homeland security secretary, urged Mr. Obama Monday to move forward with
an executive order in the face of congressional inaction.
“If
Congress refuses to act and perform its duties, then I think it’s
appropriate for the executive to step in and use his authorities based
on law … to take action in
the immigration arena,” Ms. Napolitano, now the president of the
University of California system, said in comments reported by The
Washington Post Monday.
Mr.
Kirsanow blamed the recent “flood” of illegal immigrants across the
Mexican border on Mr. Obama’s policies, saying it was “mostly
attributable to your directive granting
temporary legal status to people allegedly brought to the United States
as children.”
“This is unsurprising. When you incentivize bad behavior, you get more of it,” Mr. Kirsanow said.
He
also questioned the need for granting more special visas for high-tech
workers, saying, “There is little evidence, other than the protestations
of tech titans and politicians,
that there is a shortage of” high-tech workers in the U.S.
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