2005 Post Mortem

Date: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 4:18 PM

JOB DESTRUCTION NEWSLETTER

January 04, 2006 No. 1396

The New Year has begun but some of us are looking back on the battle that
occurred in Congress before Christmas to raise the number of employment
based visas. I recently wrote an op-ed for Vdare about what transpired. You
can read it by going to this page:
http://www.vdare.com/sanchez/060103_jobs.htm

I just put up a letter by Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan. Read how he
justifies his vote against Sen. Byrd's amendment to stop the H-1B increase
in the Senate. Go here:
http://www.zazona.com/ShameH1B/Library/Politicians/Levin.htm

Immigration attorney Gary Endelman offers his analysis of the events. As
expected Endelman wallows in pro-immigration muck. He is a sore loser who
rants and whines about the first loss the cheap-labor-lobby has had in a
very long time. His article is quite long, so I provided some excerpts of
his drivel. It's worth reading the entire article because it serves as
testimony to the way these guys think and operate.

If you want to write a letter to the good guys for publication on the Vdare
website, use this email address:
witan@vdare.com

If you want to converse with the dark side, send an email to ILW by using
this one:
editor@ilw.com

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(ASCII Picture of Gary Endelman)

http://www.ilw.com/articles/2006,0104-endelman.shtm

<> Truth be told, it was a tough week, the worst in a long time, and the
shock among pro-immigration circles, both on Capitol Hill and beyond, is
palpable.

<> The political clout of their natural allies could not carry the day
against the popular appeal of the proposal by House Judiciary Committee
Chair James Sensenbrenner ( R-WI) who benefited from the absence of House
Majority Leader Tom DeLay, busy with his own legal troubles back in Texas.

<> Other pro-immigration lobbying efforts by the immigration bar and its
traditional comrades in arms were too little, too late.

<> Pro-immigration lobbyists were most effective in the good old days when
immigration was an inside the Beltway game. You met with a few friendly
legislators who depended on your technical expertise and usually something
could be quietly and quickly worked out. Three things have made this
impossible.

<> The additional unused H-1B numbers that Section 8001 would have made
available would have been a shot in the arm for desperate US employers with
openings where these foreign nationals are sorely needed. Section 8001
would have tripled the number of employment-based immigrant visas simply by
not counting family members against the 140,000 cap.

<> The brothers and sisters of US citizens are coming here to work and they
should enter on work visas with proper labor market protection. In fact,
they would get here much faster this way ...

<> Those who condemn Sensenbrenner, even with good reason, must look in the
mirror and ask themselves why such harsh measures could have been enacted
by Congress in so short a time, while neither the President nor Senators
McCain and Kennedy have anything but a big goose egg to show for their
efforts over a much longer period.

<> We will all pay for a failure by the pro-immigration forces, our forces
, to adjust to the impact of 9/11 and the fact that the Democrats no longer
control Congress.

<> There are many in the Tancredo camp that we will never reach. They do
not want any immigration, legal or illegal. There is no way to reach them
nor should we try. They belong in the muck of privilege and prejudice into
which we should never descend and from which we can never emerge.

<> Only when immigration advocates are primarily concerned with the
deployment of immigration as a strategic tool to promote core national
objectives will they be intellectually and emotionally capable of deciding
what enforcement to embrace and what to resist. This must happen if an
enlightened immigration policy can ever hope to regain control of the
national debate and silence Lou Dobbs once and for all.

<> Had McCain-Kennedy been introduced sooner, had the Senate Republican
stalemate over immigration been broken, perhaps Rep. Sensenbrenner would
not have moved ahead with his own bill, being forced instead to respond to
what the Senate had done.

<> How many pro-immigration organizations have invited people like Jack
Kemp to serve on their boards? How many Executive Directors of
pro-immigration groups have served on the campaign committees of
Republicans like Kemp, Rep. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) or Rep. Chris Cannon
(R-Utah)? Why are there not more Tamar Jacobys out there? I ask these
questions as a life-long Democrat whose political baptism came in
volunteering for Bobby Kennedy when he ran for the United States Senate in
1964.

<> Asked how a lifelong foe of Bolshevism could take such a stand and reach
out to those who had always been his most bitter foes, Churchill responded
with words that we, who seek to make sense out of Sensenbrenner's bill,
would do well to take to heart: " If the Nazis invaded hell, I would say a
good word for the Devil in the House of Commons!" Amen, Winston. We are all
right behind you.

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