With the recent official unemployment rate of 10.2 percent, American workers are now facing the worst job
market in 25 years.1 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.2 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.
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