Sen. Ron Johnson's "Victims of Government" project ignores immigration issue

It remains to be seen whether Sen. Ron Johnson's (R-WI) new "Victims of Government" project will address the impact of illegal immigration on American workers, a public policy issue we feel certainly qualifies as an example of how the federal government is able to create havoc in the lives of ordinary citizens.

Just ask any of the 22 million Americans who are unable to find full-time work while Johnson's Gang of Ocho amigos are preparing to offer their 1,500-page plan that would give work permits to 11 million illegal aliens, 7 million of them already working in the construction, manufacturing, transportation and service industries, and increase annual legal immigration levels by 1 million people.

Not a word of condemnation from him about "big government's" refusal to enforce its own immigration laws that were created to protect American workers. Especially frustrating is Johnson's silence on the Senate's efforts to surrender American sovereignty to 11 million illegals because they represent a new source of votes, most of which will end up going to the Democrat Party no matter what the GOP does.

During this week's illegal alien rally in Washington, D.C., Johnson's office was visited by a "delegation" of Wisconsin illegals "demanding" amnesty. It doesn't take much of an imagination to figure out what Johnson staffers said to these people who should have been arrested rather than welcomed.

A recent poll showed that 45 percent of Wisconsinites have no opinion of Johnson. What are we to make of this? What we do know, however, is that Johnson isn't standing by those Americans whose own search for a better life has taken a back seat to that of foreigners, many of them here illegally. That is not an opinion. That is a fact.

Speaking of facts, immigration is so far removed from Johnson's mind that it doesn't even appear among the issues he says he's concerned about. Displacing even more American workers by granting what would be the 8th amnesty since 1986 doesn't concern this man who never tires of warning us about "loss of freedoms," some of which, we argue, are directly tied to a steady paycheck.

Figure that one out.