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Shrill Rhetoric on Illegal Immigration Won't Help Unemployed Blacks
Studies show that industries with many black workers are often the same trades that hire many undocumented immigrants. But when some blacks conclude that those immigrants take away their jobs, they go too far, writes Earl Ofari Hutchinson, a political analyst and social issues commentator and the author of "The Crisis in Black and Black" (Middle Passage Press).
Check out The Hutchinson Report blog. http://www.earlofarihutchinson.com/
The disjointed assembly of black academics, civil rights activists and black conservatives that gathered at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., in late May had only one goal in mind: to stop passage of the Senate's immigration reform bill. They formed what they called the Choose Black America Coalition. The Federation for Immigration Reform, which has been the loudest and most relentless in opposing any concessions to immigration rights groups, sponsored their news conference. The coalition didn't stop the bill, but it sent another noisy message that many blacks oppose immigration reform. Coalition members vowed to stage rallies, join the Minuteman Project, patrol the border and publicly denounce black Democrats and civil rights groups that back immigrant rights.
Their rage against immigration reform again boiled down to one thing: jobs. At the press conference, every speaker charged that illegal immigrants take jobs from blacks.
The coalition did touch a sore nerve with the jobs question. Though a May Pew Research Center poll found that blacks by a bigger percentage than whites are sympathetic toward the plight of illegal immigrants, it also found that blacks by a far higher percentage than whites fear that illegal immigrants take jobs from them.
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The disjointed assembly of black academics, civil rights activists and black conservatives that gathered at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., in late May had only one goal in mind: to stop passage of the Senate's immigration reform bill. They formed what they called the Choose Black America Coalition. The Federation for Immigration Reform, which has been the loudest and most relentless in opposing any concessions to immigration rights groups, sponsored their news conference. The coalition didn't stop the bill, but it sent another noisy message that many blacks oppose immigration reform. Coalition members vowed to stage rallies, join the Minuteman Project, patrol the border and publicly denounce black Democrats and civil rights groups that back immigrant rights.
Their rage against immigration reform again boiled down to one thing: jobs. At the press conference, every speaker charged that illegal immigrants take jobs from blacks.
The coalition did touch a sore nerve with the jobs question. Though a May Pew Research Center poll found that blacks by a bigger percentage than whites are sympathetic toward the plight of illegal immigrants, it also found that blacks by a far higher percentage than whites fear that illegal immigrants take jobs from them.
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http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=9ee686defc02e8949cc57c004c571ef6
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