Who does the Congressional Black Caucus really represent?

Several members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) recently visited Silicon Valley in an effort to promote more hiring of blacks within the high-tech industry that in recent months has received intense media attention for its firing of American STEM workers and replacing them with H-1B visa holders.

While the CBC's efforts are to be applauded, one is left wondering why this 46-member group, founded in 1971, isn't exerting the same amount of energy to protect those black workers who aren't fortunate enough to have achieved a level of education worthy of the CBC's attention.

For years the nation's black "leaders" e.g. the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, the NAACP and the CBC, have remained silent while the federal government's immigration policy has pushed the people they allegedly care about back to the back of the economic, political and social bus.  Blacks, who are hurt most by high levels of immigration, share with Hispanic-Americans the nation's highest poverty and jobless rates.

The CBC's indifference to the plight of ordinary blacks can be seen in their refusal to acknowledge the devastating impact of mass immigration on low-skilled workers recently brought to light by several members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (CRC).

Peter Kirsanow, one of the CRC's three conservative members, noted that he never received a response to his 2013 letter to the CBC's then CBC Chairwoman Marcia L. Fudge (D-Ohio)

"It was radio silence," Kirsanow said.

Black workers with few skills and little education shouldn't hold out hope that Dr. Ben Carson, should he be elected President, might foster an improvement in their current situation because Carson is clearly pro-amnesty and believes that deporting illegal aliens is a "moral low road."  This means that the 7 million illegal aliens currently holding jobs in construction, manufacturing, services and transportation will be allowed to continue in those jobs while 18 million Americans are unable to find full-time work. 

So the question again must be asked:  Why is the CBC neglecting the very people who are the reason it was created in the first place?