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THE CONSERVATIVE REVIEW - September 13, 2009
Hire Americans First!
by Pat Buchanan
September's unemployment figures were not only disappoint-
ing -- they were grim. For the 21st straight month,
Americans lost jobs. Fifteen million are out of work --
5 million for more than six months.
But as The Washington Times asserts, "America's jobless
crisis is much worse than the 9.8 percent unemployment
rate."
The U.S. economy actually lost 785,000 jobs in September,
which should have pushed the 9.7 percent August unemploy-
ment figure far higher than just 0.1 percent to 9.8
percent.
What kept the increase to 0.1 percent?
Over 800,000 people quit the labor force in September. They
packed it in. They stopped looking for work. That is six
times the number who quit looking in August and five times
the monthly average of those who have given up the search
for work in the year since Lehman Brothers died.
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Adding to the near 15 million unemployed those who have
given up looking for work and those who have taken low-
paying part-time jobs, the Times estimates the true employ-
ment rate at 17 percent. We used to call that a depression.
Yet, with nearly 25 million Americans unemployed, or no
longer looking for work, or in low-wage part-time jobs,
8.5 million U.S. jobs are believed to be held by illegal
aliens who broke into the country or overstayed their
visas.
Why is this not a matter of national outrage?
For every job opening in the country, there are six
unemployed Americans. With this surplus of idle labor
and shortage of jobs, the men who do the hiring are in
the catbird's seat. They can cut wages in the knowledge
that desperate Americans will have to accept what is
offered.
Comes the rote response: Immigrants and illegal aliens
only take jobs Americans do not want and will not do.
But, last month, a front-page article in USA Today
demolished that argument.
When a 2006 raid on six Swift & Co. meatpacking plants
rounded up 1,200 illegal aliens, 10 percent of the work-
force, Swift was up and running at full staff within
months. How? Native-born Americans in the hundreds came
out and took the jobs.
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Says Vanderbilt University Professor Carol Swain, "Whenever
there's an immigration raid, you find white, black and
legal immigrant labor lining up to do these jobs Americans
will supposedly not do."
At one of the Swift plants out West, a workforce that had
been 90 percent Hispanic, legal and illegal, before the
raids is now a mixture of white Americans and Hispanic-
Americans. Illegal aliens lost the jobs, and American
citizens got them.
A House of Raeford Farms plant in North Carolina that
was more than 80 percent Hispanic before a federal
investigation now has a workforce 70 percent African-
American.
Illegal aliens gravitate to jobs in construction, farming,
fishing and forestry. Yet native-born Americans outnumber
immigrants three to one in construction and two to one in
farming, fishing and forestry, according to Steve Camarota
of the Center for Immigration Studies. Illegals are thus
taking jobs Americans not only will do, but Americans are
doing.
The crackdown on businesses that hire illegals that has
only just begun is not only enforcing federal law, but
ending the exploitation of illegal aliens and opening up
jobs for Americans -- black, white, Asian and Hispanic
alike.
Since the 1960s, there has been a bitter battle -- breaking
down along ideological and racial, ethnic and gender lines
-- over affirmative action, quotas, preferential hiring,
promotions and admissions to college and graduate schools,
and contract set-asides.
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Conservatives have insisted that if discrimination is
wrong, it is not made right by making white males the
victims and women and minorities the beneficiaries.
Liberals argue that to advance economic equality and
ethnic diversity, and compensate for past injustices,
temporary discrimination against white males is an
unfortunate necessity.
White fireman like Frank Ricci must be denied promotions
they have won in fair competition, as African-Americans
were not among those who passed the tests.
As votes on referenda in California, Washington and
Michigan have shown, the American people reject affirmative
action and preferences in hiring, promotions and admissions
that are based on race, ethnicity or gender.
Americans believe no discrimination should mean no
discrimination.
But there is a form of discrimination, a form of
preferential treatment, which left and right, it would
seem, may both support. It is based not on color or creed,
but on nationality and citizenship.
If jobs are available in the United States, Americans
should go to the front of the line to get them, ahead of
illegal aliens. And as there are six Americans out of work
for every job opening, it is time to call a moratorium on
immigration. Why are we bringing into the United States
over a million legal immigrants a year to compete for
jobs against 15 million to 25 million Americans who can't
find work or full-time jobs to take care of their families?
Who is America for -- if not for Americans first?
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