Don't Mind Recession — Keep the Flood Coming!

That America is in or near a recession — and unemployment is rising — is no reason to cut immigration, according to Jason Riley, a member of The Wall Street Journal editorial board. Riley claims that proposals to reduce immigration "scapegoat" immigrants and that continued mass immigration makes markets "fluid" and "flexible." This situation, he says, helps workers find employment that "suits them best." He criticizes unions that want to slow immigration for wanting to "inflate" wages.

Mr. Riley is the author of a soon to be published book entitled, Let Them In: The Case for Open Borders. Source: The Wall Street Journal 4/24/08

Comment: Mr. Riley's enthusiasm for unending immigration may well stem from the fact that few immigrants seek jobs as WSJ editorialists. Many of his fellow countrymen during this recessionary period are not so fortunate. Ties to fellow Americans, however, don't appear to be a big issue at the WSJ. Former editor Robert Bartley, another promoter of "open borders," once said that nation states were "finished." Loss of country is no loss when you pledge allegiance to profiteering.

H-1Bs Don't Admit the Best and Brightest

Business lobbyists, including Microsoft founder Bill Gates, are pushing for Congress to admit more foreign workers under the H1-B visa program. They claim that America simply doesn't have enough highly qualified computer programmers, engineers and other high tech workers to meet their demands.

Norman Matloff, a computer science professor at the University of California (Davis), ably refutes this claim in a paper entitled "H-1Bs: Still not the Best and Brightest" published by the Center for Immigration Studies (www.CIS.org). The bulk of visa holders, Matloff found, were in skill categories defined by the Department of Labor as being at the level of apprenticeship or basic competence. Only eleven percent were at level IV, the highest category.

Matloff maintains that most of the companies could find Americans to hire, but they prefer H-1Bs because they can get by with paying foreigners less.

States Oppose NAFTA/SPP

Three states this year have passed resolutions against the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) arrangement of the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Critics charge that this expansion of the NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) will weaken the sovereignty of the three countries. Some maintain that the SPP will lead to a superstate similar to the European Union.

In March, the Arizona House passed an anti-SPP resolution. Last year the Arizona Senate passed a similar bill. Also in March the Idaho House and Senate approved an anti-NAFTA resolution. The Kansas House passed an anti-NAFTA bill in April. Source: The New American 4/28/08

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