The Monitor Makes the Right Connection

         The “mainstream” media are generally doing everything in their power to keep Americans from making a very simple connection. It’s simply this: With ten percent of Americans out of work we’re still being flooded with immigrants and people with temporary visas. And on top of that, the Obama Administration is weakening even the minimal immigration law enforcement we had under the Bush Administration—which means that most of the eight million illegal aliens holding American jobs will keep on holding them. And all the while, more illegal aliens will keep coming in.

            One recent and notable exception to the media blackout on the connection between American unemployment and the admission of foreign workers was an article in The Christian Science Monitor (2/2/10) by reporter David Francis. The article, which focused on the H-2B temporary visa program, began observing that “About 15 million Americans are unemployed. Yet Washington allows businesses to bring in about 1 million foreigners a year to take supposedly short-term jobs that many jobless would leap at taking if they could.”

            Quoted in the piece was David Seminara, a former U.S. Foreign Service officer, who recently completed a study of the H-2B program. He said that it is based on the “flawed assumption” that “Americans don’t want to mow your lawn. . . . They won’t drive the trucks that bring food to the grocery store.” The reason businesses like to hire foreigners under H-2B, said Mark Kikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies, is that the foreigners—who want to stay in the U.S.—“will shut up and do what they are told.”

            One reason that the media tend to keep silent about U.S. unemployment and the foreign influx, many suggest, is that the businesses that benefit from the influx provide advertising to the media. Not wishing to offend their providers, many journalists don’t want to shine a light on what they’re doing—despite the pain of their unemployed fellow citizens.

            The best hope for American workers is to pass the word around about what is happening, using the Internet and other means to bypass the mass media’s curtain of silence. Then they must tell Washington, in one loud and unified voice: “Cut immigration, cut temporary visas, and enforce the law—so that we can have jobs.”