In his acceptance speech for the Republican nomination for president, Donald Trump reiterated a point he mentioned in his debate with President Biden about how mass immigration was hurting Black and Hispanic workers. Social media has been in a frenzy about what “Black Jobs” he was referring to and questioning what were “black jobs”? I’m Andre Barnes with Jeremy Beck. Welcome to the Hiring Line Newsletter!

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Do you believe the experts or your lying eyes?

There is a long history of mass immigration blocking African American advancement. The legacy media is in denial. But we have the receipts. The reality is:

1. All of the net job growth of the previous five years has gone to immigrants; and
2. Nearly 40% of Black Americans with a high school diploma are out of a job and six out of ten Black Americans with less than a high school degree aren't working.

It is not a secret that the cost of the border crisis is falling most heavily on communities who can least afford it.

“You can go to impoverished communities in south Chicago and various Black communities – urban communities – around the country and you look at what’s happening there,” NumbersUSA’s founder Roy Beck said on a Center for Immigration Studies panel, “and basically the experts say: ‘Yes, but our econometric studies show us that that’s not true. Your eyes are lying. You have lying eyes.’”

Donna Jackson, director of membership development for Project 21 Black Leadership Network, was also on the CIS panel. In a video of the panel, Jackson describes how Black Americans - Black males in particular - are being “pushed down the ladder” while illegal immigrants are being “pushed forward”:

Given the economics of the migrant crisis, Jackson says Black males perceive that “that illegal mass immigration of illegal immigrants in their community is so that they can swap out Black people for brown. They believe that they’re put there deliberately to take those jobs – low-industry, low-skill jobs that are historically held by African-American males.”

Also on the panel was Kathleen Wells of The Naked Truth Report, who concluded that permissive immigration policies were inherently “anti-Black”.

Political Migrants

“Working people of every ethnicity began to move into the Republican column based on the GOP beginning to reflect workers values such as moderated levels of legal immigration and crackdowns on illegal immigration,” says NumbersUSA’s Jim Robb, author of Political Migrants: Hispanic Voters on the Move—How America’s Largest Minority Is Flipping Conventional Wisdom on Its Head.

Jim recently spoke with the chief polling reporter for the Wall Street Journal, who now reports:

“Trump is drawing more support from Latino voters than any GOP nominee since George W. Bush, current polling shows. His support among Black voters, if polling trends hold until Election Day, would be stronger than recorded for any Republican nominee in exit polls dating to 1972.

“That outcome, say GOP leaders and analysts, holds a lesson: It was wrong to think the minority voters most open to the party see politics primarily through the lens of race and ethnicity, with immigration as a paramount issue and a liberal immigration policy the preferred course. Instead, they say, the GOP found it could succeed best by arguing it could lift minority voters economically.”

Support for immigration limits knows no color. That’s a message worth sharing! Customize and send here. or click https://www.numbersusa.com/take-action?action=19844&type=email

(Closing Message from Andre) Taking the Message to the Streets

Many of you have been with NumbersUSA for a long time, sharing grade cards, taking actions, and organizing community events. You are feeling weary after dancing for so long to get wins here and there. I am here to encourage you to keep dancing! Bring me NumberUSA’s tired, hungry, huddled members. Our members are tired of the gamesmanship, hungry for change, and huddled together in one accord with the goal of demanding change. Read about my exploits during the month of June that took me to Chicago, Wisconsin, and Maryland in a manner of three weeks. In the words of the great rapper LL Cool J “I’m gonna take this itty-bitty world by storm and I’m just getting warm”. I am out here to get our message of sensible immigration in the streets and into your communities. Please join me!

From the oped:

”Instead of creating a nondiscriminatory immigration system that protected American workers from cheap foreign labor, the reforms of the 1960s encouraged mass migration — and Black Americans have been paying a steep price ever since.

”As Harvard economist George Borjas has argued, low-skilled workers — including many Black Americans — are particularly disadvantaged by lax immigration policies, because immigrants compete with them directly for blue-collar jobs. Each “10-percent immigrant-induced increase in the supply of a particular skill group reduced the Black wage by 4.0 percent, lowered the employment rate of Black men by 3.5 percentage points, and increased the incarceration rate of Blacks by almost a full percentage point,” Borjas and his colleagues concluded.

”Of course, Black Americans aren’t the only ones harmed. Journalist David Leonhardt recently chronicled how American workers of all races have seen their wages decline thanks to the renewed tide of immigration that began in the 1960s.”