Subject:
Create Jobs by Suspending Non-Essential Immigration
To:
President Barack Obama
Sen. Frank Lautenberg
Sen. Robert Menendez
Rep. Christopher Smith
November 2, 2009
We cannot understand why you continue to allow the United States to import 125,000 foreign workers each month while 15 million Americans are out of work. The $150 billion jobs stimulus will not help Americans find work as long as they have to compete against less-expensive foreign workers!
The White House has just released a report showing that the economic stimulus has created or saved 650,000 jobs. These 650,000 jobs were created or saved at a cost of $150 billion, meaning that American taxpayers paid $230,769.23 for each job created or saved. This is a pretty expensive jobs stimulus program when one considers that the median household income is $50,233 per year.
While we are spending nearly $231,000 to create (or save) one job, the United States continues to hand out 125,000 green cards and temporary work visas each month. The stimulus bill was passed in February and has been able to create/save 650,000 jobs but, in that same time period, 1 MILLION foreign workers were allowed to enter the country. In reality, very few Americans appear to have been aided by the jobs stimulus.
You need to work with your fellow Congressmen to halt all non-essential immigration. Americans are depending on the Congress to create jobs, and so far, you and your colleagues are failing us.
Point Pleasant , NJ
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