Free rent and a pool…but not for you.

Move Americans to front of the line

Reality Check: Nearly 60 million working-age Americans aren’t working, and all of the net job growth of the last five years has gone to immigrants. This is not a policy for the people. Congress is not helping.

You don’t have to review the entire 200-year history of immigration surges, employer bias, and the depression of Black wealth to be convinced of the moral arguments for a well-regulated immigration system. The collapsed Francis Scott Key bridge had barely touched the water before the cheap labor lobbyists started talking to the Biden administration about giving reconstruction companies millions of reasons not to hire Black Americans for the rebuild.

Andre Barnes and I discussed the situation, and how the citizen lobby can respond, with Pamela Denise Long and 700 listeners this month.

Workplace raids (few and far between as they are) demonstrate that illegal hiring is the preferred method of employers to bypass Black workers. Time and again, when companies lose their illegal workers, they hire Black Americans at higher wages. It isn’t a mystery why the border crisis has so many defenders. Cheap labor benefits the wealthy and powerful. But it comes with a cost.

Among the costs borne by the American public: decreased wage and employment rates for Black Americans, and increased incarceration.

“Protections from racism, like all civil rights, depend on a national border,” writes Batya Ungar-Sargon, author of Second Class, “and on the compact a sovereign citizenry makes with its own government.”

Together, we are the citizen lobby holding our government to account!

Professor Roger House of Emerson University asked 25 members of the Congressional Black Caucus if they support granting work permit benefits to inadmissible economic migrants and/or safeguards to ensure that American workers wouldn’t be displaced. Take action and read more here to see what he found.

Free rent and a pool…but not for you.

Chicago is launching a $57 million, taxpayer-funded, catering service for illegal aliens. New York City is offering one year of free rent for apartments with pool access…for illegal aliens.

To quote Kat Williams: “Whaaat?”

Public parks, recreation centers, and even police stations are being diverted from the resident community in cities receiving illegal aliens released by the Biden administration into the country. For Corey Brooks, the “Rooftop Pastor” of Chicago, it has become clear that his community is being taken advantage of.

The redistribution of resources from citizens to illegal aliens is happening all over the country. Take action and read all about it here.

In his article, “How mass immigration hurts Black Americans,” Roger House says Congress should get its priorities straight:

“Congress should require sanctuary cities to prioritize the local population for provisions such as homeless shelters, affordable housing units, emergency room and mental health services, education outreach, legal services, and food programs, among others. The populations from the border should have access to older facilities, if room is available.”

“So they were forced, essentially, to hire African Americans.”

Two Nobel Prize winning economists walk into a conversation about immigration…

“Immigration restriction brought up some of the worst treated people in America,” Sir Angus Deaton tells the audience, “and really changed their lives in a really, really positive way.”

Let’s change the world again.

100 years ago: Bipartisan support for transformative immigration reform. Doesn’t that sound nice? It was the Immigration Act of 1924 that “really changed the world,” by essentially forcing employers to hire Black Americans.

A key supporter of the 1924 law was labor and civil rights icon A. Philip Randolph. Randolph believed the path to social equality started with economic fairness.

After the immigration restrictions went into place, Randolph used the tight labor market to establish the first Black labor union in the United States. As Black economic power grew, Randolph conceived of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom to secure historic wins for the Double Victory campaign: integration in the military and in government defense factories. He was chair of the more famous 1963 March on Washington (which adopted his original idea), where Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous “I Have a Dream Speech.”

Andre Barnes: “Let’s talk about it.”

Randolph’s birthday was also this week, on April 15th. Celebrate him with a message to Congress to reduce immigration once again. Read more about Deaton, Randolph, and 1924 here.

Andre is at the U.S./Mexico border this week. Here he is comparing the border fences of different administrations. He'll have more for us upon his return. Until then...

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