Immigration Reform

Monitoring the propaganda from supporters of massive immigration.

Jobs Americans won't do



Claim: There are jobs that Americans won't do
Summary: Misleading; anti-American; ideologically corrupt

There is no such thing.

Citations

  • "...I think the Senate is likely to tackle the issue in a more comprehensive fashion, and not only look at border security, but also look at the issue of a guest worker program as a way to relieve the pressure on our border, so that whatever technology and manpower and resources we've got on the border are concentrated on the border, with fewer people trying to come across because we have got a program to match willing worker with willing employer for jobs that Americans won't do. But we'll see..."
    1/26/2006: Karl Rove , quoted in Freedom Folks, Hugh Hewitt radio interview by
  • "If we don't have a temporary worker program, I think it's going to be extraordinarily difficult to ask our Border Patrol agents and our ICE agents to stem the tide that is driven by a huge economic engine of employers looking for people who can work [in jobs that] won't be done by Americans," Chertoff told reporters during a briefing on the administration's Border Security Initiative.
    12/1/2005: Michael Chertoff, title:Secretary, org:Department of Homeland Security , quoted in GovExec, DHS: Guest worker program would help border agencies by Chris Strohm
  • So one of the ways to make sure we have a rational border control policy is to make work legal -- not amnesty, but work legal -- on a temporary basis. People ought to be given a tamper-proof work card, come here and do jobs Americans won't do, and then after a set period of time, go home. And that's what we're going to work with Congress about, a comprehensive plan that will make it easier for these good folks to do their job, which is enforce the border of the United States.
    11/29/2005: George W Bush , quoted in FindLaw, speech transcript by
  • "We want our Border Patrol agents chasing, you know, crooks and thieves and drug-runners and terrorists, not good-hearted people who are coming here to work... And therefore, it makes sense to allow the good-hearted people who are coming here to do jobs that Americans won't do a legal way to do so. And providing that legal avenue, it takes the pressure off the border."
    12/20/2004: George W Bush , quoted in Washington Times, Bush presses for reform on border policy by James G. Lakely
  • "Earlier this year, I proposed a temporary worker program, not an amnesty program, that will offer legal status as temporary workers to undocumented men and women who were employed in the United States when I announced this proposal... Under this program, America will also welcome workers from foreign countries who have been offered jobs by American employers that no American has filled. ... This program will match willing workers with willing employers, without disadvantaging those who have followed the law and waited in line to achieve American citizenship."
    3/6/2004: George W Bush , quoted in WorldNetDaily, Fooling Americans about border security by Jon Dougherty
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