With Unemployment Near 10%, Obama Issued Over 1 Million Green Cards Last Year
Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, April 11, 2010, 6:51 PM
This makes sense.
With unemployment hovering around 10% and no relief in sight, Barack Obama issued over 1 million green cards last year.
The Examiner reported:
The Department of Homeland Security has just reported that during 2009, they issued 1,130,818 new Green Cards to foreign nationals, allowing them to work legally in this country. That number represents the fourth highest number of cards issued in one year.
750,000 of the new Green Cards were given to the families of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents.
The top four recipient nations are as follows:
-Mexico…164,920
-China…receiving 64,238
-Philippines…60,029
-India…57,304In Feb. 2009, the financial institution Merrill Lynch announced that the nation’s actual unemployment rate had reached 13.9 percent. A year later, that number had risen to 17.3 percent. This figure represents Americans who have been laid off from full-time positions and are now working part-time, as well as those who have simply stopped looking for work, and workers whose unemployment benefits have run out.
The official unemployment figure given monthly by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics is now listed around 10 percent, but represents only those Americans currently receiving unemployment checks, and is not truly indicative of the dire employment situation now facing the U.S.
In 1931, the second full year of the Great Depression, the average rate of unemployment was 16.3 percent, with U.S. unemployment peaking at 25 percent in 1933. We now sit in between those two disastrous figures, with an ever-worsening economy.
Hat Tip Infidel Joe
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Freddy commented:
So, the net headline of this story is:
The federal government is completely out of touch with the people.
Seems like that same headline applies to many stories since Obama became president.
SteveCan commented:
And next, if BHO gets his way there will be 30 million more greencards issued. BOHICA You all.
averagemelon commented:
It has always been Obama’s agenda to destroy this nation. When we are crippled financially to the point of stand still, we cannot defend Israel when the Arab nations attack her. This has been the plan of the One all along. He has used every group imaginable to achieve this end.
The Progressives, in their zeal to change the country into a socialist nation, are so thrilled to help this along, too. They think they are going to gain all the power in the end.
They are all fools.
Opaobie commented:
He may need to issue one to himself.
Jerry Haberer commented:
The obvious question that the Libs will ask, of course, is “How many green cards were issued in each of the 8 years of the Bush Administration?” Anyone have an answer?
materialist commented:
I’d be a little careful of this statistic. Quite a few of those green cards, particularly those going to Asians, went to engineers and scientists with unique skills. We make an enormous profit as a nation off this skimming of the best and the brightest from various places around the world. It is not a smart idea to roast that particular goose, at least not until she stops laying golden eggs.
DocScience commented:
As a former manager of R&D for a large corporation, I can say that in many areas of specific research, one isn’t going far in recruiting unless you interview and hire non-US PhD’s. So green carding these hard to get science and engineering specialists makes sense.
So SOME green carding, even in a recession is a good thing for America.
But something tells me that some of the 164,000 Mexicans aren’t post-docs looking for a lab position.
Opaobie commented:
Whatever it was, it was too many. That is one of the big failures of the Bush Administration. Actually, it isn’t so important how many, but to whom they were issued. Educated, civilized, non-violent, non-criminals who could actually contribute to our economy have to go to the back of the line so gang members, drug dealers, uneducated common laborers, and terrorists can get “student visas” and green cards by the bushel. Poor, especially Muslim or tyrant-controlled countries have the highest priority. /sarc
Jo commented:
Uhhh.. 80 cities in California have 2% unemployment. 10% sounds like fudging these numbers by the OFAIL.
College kids with PhDs in engineers and as scientists canot find work, but we give them to foreingers.
Barack plays gold and care less about the economy. Go to Tea Party, the best way to show decent of the failed Obama Regime.
Jo commented:
Uhhh.. 80 cities in California have 20% unemployment. typo
Gman commented:
He’s following the playbook on how to destroy America to a T.
ar05075 commented:
He figures he’ll need those votes.
caolila commented:
Most people would be shocked to learn that there is also a green card lottery…just put your name in the hat and maybe you can just win, despite whether you are a terrorist.
Jan commented:
I would like to know the breakdown of industry to where the recipients of the green card will work.
My close friend works to place international physical therapists from the Philipines in the US because there aren’t enough P/T who are US citizens to fill these jobs. There is such a need that the US allows them to be fast tracked through the system. So at least in this industry, these green card workers are filling empty healthcare positions that would otherwise go empty and you waiting for an appointment.
archer52 commented:
Materialist makes a good point, the same I was going to make. Here is why-
I remember back in the late nineties the head of Sun Systems making a statement about Jesse Jackson’s complaint (his typical Rainbow coalition’s blackmail attempt to make the company hire more blacks) about how Sun System was hiring Indian computer engineers and not black computer engineers. I think the man’s name was Johnson, but I’m not sure. Anyway, the guy was a no guff taking CEO and told Jackson to his face that if Jackson could find a qualified black computer engineer he’d hire him on the spot. But the truth was most of the qualified engineers were foreign trained as the colleges over there were focusing their efforts on technical training. Over here, most people were too lazy or uninterested to make a career in such a difficult discipline. He went on to say it was his experience that black culture did not encourage a pursuit of this type instead pushing intelligent black students into other areas.
Jackson just looked bugged eyed and was speechless. I had trouble breathing from laughing so hard. The man was right. Many professionals that we need aren’t grown here like they should be. High end technology companies need to recruit and employ the best of the best.
That being said, we should always seek to employ our own people first. If they are qualified. If they are not, figure out what we are doing wrong and change it.
Palinfan commented:
Silly Conservatives! I checked with the Liberal media who quote the White House and they tell me recovery is just around the corner! Just like it was in March, and February, and January, and December, and November, and October, and September, and…
Marsh commented:
I hate how everyone who opposes illegal immigration usually qualifies that by saying they support legal immigration. I don’t. I oppose all immigration to America in general. 300+ million people really is enough. Country is full so piss off. Go migrate somewhere else.
We really should only allow in a small select few who have certain skills that we genuinely need and who have perfectly clean backgrounds. That’s what Japan does and as a result they have virtually zero crime and world leading rankings in quality of life across the board from education, to health to general well being. We should copy them in that regard.
It might be politically incorrect but it’s no secret that immigrant populations comprise the majority of criminals in pretty much every country in the world with a few exceptions. Immigrants to America are no different.
We have Russian organized crime (very dangerous). Italian organized crime (which used to be REALLY bad as we all know). Mexican organized crime (also very dangerous). Japanese organized crime. Chinese organized crime. Somali organized crime (and terrorists). Etc.
They’re wrecking havoc in our communities and murdering our citizens. They also tend to drop out of school at much higher rates than Americans who have lived here for generations and cause all kinds of social strains from overloading our health care system to living off of welfare.
How much longer are we going to accept the stupid argument that America is a nation of immigrants and therefore we should always support mass immigration here? The reason why mass immigration in the early 1900s made sense was because we had a booming manufacturing industry and we needed cheap labor.
Last time I checked we’re now struggling to keep any manufacturing jobs here in America and the ones that we do keep are often being filled by illegal immigrants primarily from Mexico because they cost less to hire. But with these cheap labor comes all all the social woes mentioned previously. So is it really worth the tradeoff? I don’t think so.
It seems clear to me that Americans (and American politicians especially) simply don’t care about maintaining their quality of life and would rather destroy their communities than be perceived as being anti-immigration. Oh well. I guess there’s no changing that attitude.
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Contemplationist commented:
Actually most people who get green cards have already been working on work visas for a decade or so.
Andreas K. commented:
Marsh, Japanese organized crime?
Yakuza doesn’t operate in the US.
“We really should only allow in a small select few who have certain skills that we genuinely need and who have perfectly clean backgrounds. That’s what Japan does and as a result they have virtually zero crime and world leading rankings in quality of life across the board from education, to health to general well being. We should copy them in that regard.”
You’re confusing a few things.
Japan’s low crime rate (and actually decreasing crime rate in the capital crime sector) stems simply from not pussyfooting around with criminals. Japanese judges aren’t prone to fall for the psychological dribble of some “expert”, who’s been called to court by the defense lawyer of a rapist (unlike in Europe.) Police can stop you and ask for your ID if you’re a foreigner. It happens to me all the time and I don’t mind it. It shows they’re doing their job. I know in Germany a police officer can tell you “Please open your bag” and you can tell him “No” and he can’t do anything about it.
Prisons in Japan are very strict. You can get privileges, if you earn them, but you don’t get them on default like in German or Austrian jails.
As for immigration, well. If you want to get the Japanese citizenship, you’re get background checked by the normal police and the not-so-public police (the NPA and special police units also check on you), that includes interviews with these officers. If you want the citizenship, you have to be permanent resident and getting that status isn’t easy (unlike in Europe.)
For working visa you require backup by your company.
Foreigners who are convicted of crimes and end up in jail serve their sentence and then they’re deported. No discussion there. They do that and I say it’s a good thing.
Japan is, as of now, opening the market for nurses, usually from the Philipines. The first batch of the program was full within days after the announcement.
Health and general well being stems simply from the different diet and mentality. Old people in Japan are afraid of becoming useless. A case I personally know demonstrates this easily. I know a retired police officer in Tokyo who spent 40 years in the force. When he retired he quickly grew bored and now he’s working as a volunteer in Japan’s busiest police station right in Tokyo.
Education, well, let me put it this way: most of the kids in Austria, Germany or the US would piss themselves if they would have to deal with the schedule that is normal in Japan. Plus entrance exams in universities (and schools, too.) Obirin high school and Horikoshi high school both have strict entrance exams. Just like the big universities across the country. These exams are hard. In general parents try to get their kids into private schools and then public universities (Todai is always the big goal of every parent, together with Waseda, Meiji and Hosei.)
Why?
Because there the kids get the best possible education.
I know a few Japanese actresses, many of them former child stars who managed to keep going in the job. Most of them went to prestigious schools and many of them are in top notch universities, while also carrying their acting schedule (which is a lot more work than in Hollyweird.) In most cases the parents told them that their acting careers would be over once their performance in school would drop.
You also have to factor the Japanese mentality. They are generally more group driven, which has its roots in the simple fact that Japan, while being rather large, doesn’t have that much habitable area. Hop on a train in Tokyo and within an hour you’re right in the alps. So people have always been forced to share rather narrow space. And eventually the people became more group oriented because otherwise it wouldn’t have worked. This is still common over there and leads to a rather cohesive society. You either adapt to their way of life, or you won’t like it there.
There are plenty of horror tales floating around of how “bad” foreigners are treated sometimes, but from my personal experience I can say that if you adapt to their ways there won’t be any problems.
Like Mariko says in “Shogun”: In Japan there are only Japanese ways.
bg commented:
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Over 1 Million Green Cards Last Year
foreign national
allowing them to work legally in this country
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Greg commented:
Go to any of the large Engineering schools in the US and you will find 75% of the graduate schools students are foreign. Foreign governments subsidize graduate programs for their nationals. US students have such a personnal cost burden that by the time they recieve a Bachelors they have to go to work to pay done the debt. Solution is not welfare as with Pell Grants but rather charging the Foreign student 75% of the true cost of running the graduate program rather than the tax payers