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The Biggest Lie: We Need Them
THE BIGGEST LIE: WE NEED THEM
The mantra never changes: “We need immigrants because they to do jobs that Americans won’t do.”
It is a big lie, their biggest lie.
For decades, the narrative has always been that America’s economy is dependent on immigrants both legal and illegal because they do jobs that Americans will not do. Sadly, as I have to teach my 11-year-old son, never trust anything that is said to you. Verify everything. This is the world we currently live in. As I have grown older, I have witnessed “beliefs” strongly held by the majority breakdown upon the simplest scrutiny. This belief that America needs immigrants is one of those “beliefs”.
What I have found to be the most frustrating aspect of debunking these “beliefs”, within the immigration debate, is that the information refuting these long-held narratives are easily found. The fact that this data, that destroys these strongly held “beliefs”, is readily available to the public but is not digested makes me question the desire of the American citizen to be informed. Life is so busy and many American are grinding out a life day by day that I understand, to some level, how one could just put their head down and try to plow through one’s life. However, because the internet allows for the easy digestion of information, there is no honest excuse for ignorance. Ignorance and being uninformed is a deadly combination as we are witnessing in today’s world.
Let’s just peal back the first layer of this lie that our economy will come to a screeching halt without the world’s poor and uneducated. The website CIS.org has a detailed article from 2009 that debunks everything about this lie. HERE From 2009! Here are the bullets points directly from this article:
Among the findings:
Of the 465 civilian occupations, only four are majority immigrant. These four occupations account for less than 1 percent of the total U.S. workforce. Moreover, native-born Americans comprise 47 percent of workers in these occupations.
Many jobs often thought to be overwhelmingly immigrant are in fact majority native-born:
Maids and housekeepers: 55 percent native-born
Taxi drivers and chauffeurs: 58 percent native-born
Butchers and meat processors: 63 percent native-born
Grounds maintenance workers: 65 percent native-born
Construction laborers: 65 percent native-born
Porters, bellhops, and concierges: 71 percent native-born
Janitors: 75 percent native-born
The authors, Steven A. Camarota and Karen Zeigler, go into greater detail in this article but the heart of their research is the narrative forced upon America about the need for immigrant workers is false. Common sense, without any deep research, destroys this narrative. America did not accidently become the greatest economic and military superpower. America became the strongest nation ever because of Americans. We, the citizens of this nation, are the reason we are a great nation. I am tired of the treasonous elite’s defamation that the backbone of the nation are racist, incompetent, and lazy. The elites infuriate me with their demeaning claims that illegal and legal immigrants are the heart of the American economic engine because they have a better work ethic than native born Americans. How insulting!
Common sense should make all of us pause and ask a simple question: “If the world’s poor, uneducated and unskilled that are pouring into our country by the thousands daily possess such great work ethic and entrepreneurial skills; why are their homelands in decay and perpetual chaos?” American’s need to begin to ask the surface level questions to these long-held beliefs that demean and castigate Americans. We all have a duty to be informed and demand both respect and the truth from our elected leaders that represent us.
Illegal aliens and the abuse of Work Visas by corporations via our government cripple wages and opportunities for Americans. Every decision our government makes regarding immigration needs to be made with the simple but powerful question of: “Does this benefit the American citizen?”