Illegal Immigration Post #7

Summary: With an official unemployment rate of 9.5 percent, American workers now face the worst job market in 25 years. In fact, over the past 60 years, the unemployment rate has rarely been as high as it is today. Despite a difficult job market, President Obama and leaders in Congress are talking about passing so-called “comprehensive immigration reform” legislation. This legislation would give amnesty to 12 million or more illegal aliens, including an estimated 8.3 million illegal aliens who hold jobs they never should have had, and could include a proposed new guest-worker provision to import hundreds of thousands of additional foreign workers. If enacted, illegal aliens would be allowed to keep these jobs instead of making them available to American citizens and legal immigrants who are out of work. Congress has a responsibility to ensure that the law that requires available jobs to be filled by legal workers is respected. Consideration of amnesty, particularly in these harsh economic times, constitutes a failure by Congress to live up to its basic responsibilities to the American people.

Reflection: I think this article is unfairly biased toward illegal immigration. One of the things that really got me though, was the way it was written. The way you write something has a big effect on how the reader sees the issue and this made it seem as though failure in the job market were illegal immigrants fault.

Source:

http://www.fairus.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=20919&security=1601&news_iv_ctrl=1007