American workers at all skill levels, already facing an uncertain jobs environment, saw their search for a better life threatened even more with the election of Rep. Paul Ryan as House Speaker.
Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican, has a long history of favoring open borders and amnesty for illegal aliens, recently was revealed as being the House’s leading advocate of pushing through a House version of the 2013 Senate amnesty bill that would have doubled annual legal immigration to 2 million people and added 33 million foreign workers to our already bloated labor force.
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Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) believes that the mainstream media have not done enough to advance the pro-amnesty amnesty.
The mainstream media, in their “balanced” immigration reports, often have a pro-amnesty Republican and a pro-amnesty Democrat touting the benefits of comprehensive amnesty legislation while never mentioning the impact such legislation will have on American workers outside of the permanent political class. Pro-enforcement voices are never given the time of day. In fact, Univision’s Jorge Ramos, who has interviewed pro-enforcemnet advocates like D.A. King, has been more fair and balanced than his mainstream media brethren on the immigration issue–and that’s saying something.
The mainstream press lauds DREAMers as valedictorians, vilifies Americans opposed to amnesty because of the impact it would have on American workers of all backgrounds, and ignores crimes committed by illegal immigrants. And when Gallup, the organization the mainstream press most respects, publishes a poll that found only seven percent of Americans want more immigration at this time, the media that is quick to publish every bit of minutiae from the reputable Gallup organization ignores it. But that is still not enough for Gutierrez, who declared “they haven’t understood our relevance.”
