They're here, they're Mexican and lawmakers aren't doing anyone any good by scapegoating their new residents.
That was the take-home message last week, when Chicago-based researcher Rob Paral visited Kansas City to present his new study about Mexican immigration in the Midwest.
Bottom line: Our neighbors from the South are coming to Missouri and surrounding states in record numbers and the overwhelming majority aren't arriving through legal channels.
Whether you're a Minuteman or an immigration reform activist, Paral's findings about our shifting demographics are striking.
A research fellow at the University of Notre Dame and the American Immigration Law Foundation, Paral published his study "Mexican Immigration in the Midwest: Meanings and Implications" earlier this year. Last week, he highlighted his findings for a packed room at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
So what do these numbers mean and why do they matter? Paral explained.
First, before you start to argue that Mexicans are stealing American jobs, he warned, consider this. U.S. Department of Labor statistics show that, between 2000 and 2010, the largest area of job growth -- nearly 43 percent -- has been in the lowest skilled sectors that require very little education or training. So all those Americans with college degrees and technical schooling are competing for a shrinking piece of the labor pie. "We've prepared our native population for jobs that don't exist," Paral said.
According to Paral, Mexicans are wiling to fill that gap, but immigration laws are stacked against them. "There's a mismatch between our immigration system and our labor system," he said. Because the majority of Mexicans immigrating to the Midwest are working in manufacturing, not agriculture, they can't apply for specific work visas like migrants to farm states like California. The most viable option is a family-sponsored visa -- but those are capped at 20,000 per year. And, as Paral writes in his study, "The 20,000 cap is the same for Mongolia or Mozambique as it is for Mexico. It is not adjusted to suit the different volume of petitions or the fact that Mexico is neighbor to the United States."
"So it's not that Mexican immigrants avoid the legal immigration system but that the legal immigration system avoids Mexicans," Paral told the UMKC crowd.
What's the solution? Recognizing reality, Paral suggests, and making use of our new and growing population of Mexican Midwesterners. "Legalizing immigrants is an economic development strategy," he said. "Local governments shoot themselves in the foot when they are punitive towards immigrants."
Especially since immigrants are the only newcomers moving to places like, Milan, Missouri, where the local kids are unlikely to stick around to work in the meatpacking plant.
"In the Midwest," Paral emphasized, "the demographic future lies with immigrants."
Read his full report here.
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Carolyn Szczepanski = a jew who loves the idea of hispanics displacing whites in the USA. Jews have been at the forefront of turning America into a multicultural hellhole.
Rob Paral = an agent of the globalist Super-elite who want to tear down the United States by flooding this country with tens of millions of 3rd world Latin American peasant immigrants.
Will Rob Paral or Carolyn Szczepanski live anywhere near these hispanic "immigrants"? Of course not. They both live in nice, safe, (probably) gated communities. They promote policies (ie. massive immigration) which will never affect them or their families.
Read my blog for more info:
http://immigration-globalizati...
I've read a lot of stupid shit in the Pitch over the years but this beats all.
All those Americans with college degrees and technical schooling competing for a shrinking piece of the labor pie is precisely why those low-skilled jobs should be available to citizens and legal immigrants first.
What about teen-agers and those without the aptitude to complete high school or other formal education? Should we just ignore them? It's not like our education system has solved the problem of high school drop outs. In fact, a large number of them are either illegal immigrants or the children of illegal immigrants.
When employers who hire illegal immigrants are subject to real criminal penalties, a system is in place to verify employment eligibility for ALL, the loop hole allowing anchor babies automatic citizenship is closed and every illegal now living here is required to sign up for a process leading to legalization after paying fines and fees or face serious jail time, only then should we address the issue of streamlining the immigration process. Even then there needs to be a quota based on real need for workers in verifiable industries.
These are links on utube The Pressures Keeping Wages Down for Farmworkers
2 Florida farms agree to pay tomato pickers more
Farm Workers Not Protected by Current Laws
Farm Workers Claim Slavery in Florida
The government is causing the people to come north by keeping these wages down---as realist points out---sad but thats our government at work!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Steven Reed 417-882-2942 stevenlloydreed@hotmail.com
Pro Freedom and Community/Political Activist Steven L. Reed of Springfield Missouri filed an Appellant Brief with the Federal Appeals Court concerning his arrest in 2003 for handing out �Draft Claire, (McCaskill) for Governor, (She Inspires People) flyers at a Democratic Public Event.
The Federal Appeals Court has accepted the Brief and all other Appellees must respond by the end of the month.
Please see the attached documents.
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These are links on utube The Pressures Keeping Wages Down for Farmworkers
2 Florida farms agree to pay tomato pickers more
Farm Workers Not Protected by Current Laws
Farm Workers Claim Slavery in Florida
The government is causing the people to come north by keeping these wages down---as realist points out---sad but thats our government at work!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Steven Reed 417-882-2942 stevenlloydreed@hotmail.com
Pro Freedom and Community/Political Activist Steven L. Reed of Springfield Missouri filed an Appellant Brief with the Federal Appeals Court concerning his arrest in 2003 for handing out �Draft Claire, (McCaskill) for Governor, (She Inspires People) flyers at a Democratic Public Event.
The Federal Appeals Court has accepted the Brief and all other Appellees must respond by the end of the month.
Please see the attached documents.
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I'm sure Paral means well, but the solution is not to reward the bosses who shipped as many good-paying jobs as they could overseas with a pool of labor willing and eager to undercut the locals for what's left in the way of jobs. If it weren't for illegal immigrants willing to work for low wages, those employers would be forced to pay something resembling a living wage and you might see a few more local kids sticking around to work at that meatpacking plant.
Of course, that would cut into the profits of the bosses AND make Joe Six-Pack pay a few more cents for his hamburgers, so it's unlikely to happen.
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