Most National Christian Leaders Declare War on Unemployed in Their Pews -- and on the street

(Analyst's note:  Extremely troubling.)


By Roy Beck

With only one major exception, virtually all the Christian denominations now have national leadership calling for more foreign workers in the U.S. -- even though their members in the pews are suffering in a jobs depression. 

In this blog, I will list the types of Americans who are suffering the most under the immigration advocacy of these denominational leaders.

At the bottom, I will list the denominational leaders who favor more foreign workers over unemployed  Americans and over the legal immigrants already here.

DENOMINATIONAL LEADERS TALK OF LABOR SHORTAGES AMIDST 'U-6' UNEMPLOYMENT RATE OF 17%

Now -- except for the Southern Baptist Convention -- all the country's larger Mainline Protestant, Catholic and Evangelical denominations are endorsing huge new increases in permanent work permits for foreign workers. (Read my blog on the National Association of Evangelicals' latest dive into the pro-amnesty coalition.) 

A common thread in the arguments of all the denominational leaderships is that illegal immigration is caused because the feds are issuing TOO FEW work permits to foreign workers.   The recent level of new permanent and temporary work permits each month has been around 160,000!   Too low? 

Do we need 160, let alone 160,000 a month?

 Certainly not, based on  the federal "U-6 Unemployment Rate."   Accepted by progressives and conservatives alike as the best measure of suffering, the U-6 Unemployment Rate for everybody in the U.S. had risen to 17% by mid-summer! It counts not only those actively looking for a job but discouraged workers who have recently given up looking as well as people involuntarily forced into part-time work.
(All percentages in this blog are from government statistics the end of June. Most rates appear to have gotten worse since then.) ....