Reply #47: How did the party of the working american get on the wrong side of this?

[lumberjack_jeff]

And how the hell do we continue getting our asses handed to us because of it?

Our economy cannot support the influx of immigration, both legitimate and illegitimate. In 2001 the employment to population ratio was 73%, today it is 71% and the reason for the difference is entirely due to immigration.

The whole rationale behind H1-b visas is that our schools cannot train enough techy-types to fill the jobs in US industry. The bill that Barbara Boxer is promoting gives the student visa holder (who was accepted to a US college to which a taxpaying American student was rejected) permanent legal status to hold a job that aforementioned American student would have otherwise performed.

It's fucking bullshit. How the hell can we let Tom Tancredo be right about this? Immigration from all sources should stop until it can be demonstrated by runaway wage inflation that our economy needs the additional labor, and DEMOCRATS should be the ones leading the charge.