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A few days after the Twitter Spaces event "How Does Immigration Benefit Black Americans" trended #1 on the social media site, Pamela Denise Long hosted Roy Beck for two sessions to discuss his book Back of the Hiring Line: A 200-year history of immigration surges, employer bias, and depression of Black wealth. The two sessions together run 13 hours and have been listened to close to 10,000 times:

In an interview on Rising, Long said immigration is a "can of worms," and a big reason why Democrats are losing Black voters.

"They call you xenophobic if you notice," Long writes. And "if you're white and paying attention, they also label you racist. Not today!"

Ever since The New York Times credited NumbersUSA with defeating the Bush/Kennedy/McCain amnesty in 2007, expansionists have used smears, shame, and intimidation to shut down the debate. Well, "not today"!

We need your help. Although addressing the disproportionate damage mass immigration has done to Black Americans is always integral to our mission and message, Black History Month is a time when our fellow Americans should be paying special attention.

Please share the links in this alert with as many people as you can. If you haven't already, please leave a review (more reviews boosts the book's visibility).

Mark Krikorian calls the book a "roadmap" for political realignment. His review is running in National Review (paywall) and the New York Post (no paywall).

Frank Morris, former executive director of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, praises Back of the Hiring Line, and says politicians in both parties that give "lip service" to Black Americans should:

"...listen to generations of civil rights leaders who've all recognized that the best way to boost Black Americans' fortunes is to ensure tight labor markets. That requires stemming the influx of foreign workers."

Joe Guzzardi references Morris' column and Back of the Hiring Line as he criticizes the Congressional Black Caucus for accepting "without criticism the current illegal alien border surge which will eventually loosen the labor market when the aliens are paroled with work permits."

T. Willard Fair, Executive Director of the Urban League of Miami, calls the book a "validation" of the concerns he and other Black leaders have been saying for decades.

Naturalist Karen Shragg has advice for environmentalists who have ethical concerns about immigration reduction: read Back of the Hiring Line.

"As Beck points out so clearly, restricting immigration, when it has happened over the years, improves the chances for employment and economic advancement for African Americans," Shragg writes. "Just making employers follow the law and hire US citizens as well as restricting visas would help. This would help save jobs for Americans especially those who have been shoved to the back of the hiring line. The Florida Panther, the Lesser Prairie Chicken, the Monarch Butterfly and so many other species suffering from overpopulation's bulldozers will be thankful too."

Please see the book's website and YouTube channel for more mentions of the book that you can see and share, including how the book has been used to testify against state and local efforts to curtail immigration enforcement.

One of the book's themes is that by reforming immigration policy in the interests of the descendants of American slaves and Freedmen, Congress would also help all Americans whose economic opportunities have been stifled - if not as much as Black Americans - by mass immigration.

Manuel A. Rosales, an immigrant from Nicaragua, agrees:

"Who gets hurt by open borders? U.S. Latinos, Black, brown and white. They lose jobs because of shadow economy wages often found in immigrant-heavy industries such as farming, meat packing and construction. That's why E-Verify remains a must-have national policy."

"What about those unfilled jobs?"

Many in the establishment media have bought into the expansionist idea that the millions of job openings demonstrate the need for more foreign workers, not less. Yet if the labor force participation rate could rise to the level it was during President Obama's first year in office, all of those jobs could be filled. How quickly we give up on our fellow Americans.

All of this talk of needing more foreign labor has put Kevin Williamson, a wildly inconsistent writer on immigration, in a reductionist mood:

"The United States does not suffer from having too many billionaires. If it suffers from anything, it is from having too many poor people, which, for some reason, we insist on importing in considerable numbers -- and the Chamber of Commerce now proposes doubling immigration to solve the "labor crisis." I am not sure there is a labor crisis. I am very sure that the labor market has changed in dramatic ways in the Covid-19 era, and that it is much more expensive to fill many kinds of jobs than it was a few years ago....If the changed economic landscape means that wages for certain labor-intensive jobs goes up, even at the expense of business profits, then nobody will be better pleased than I."

ICYMI - The worst border surge in U.S. history continues...

The media isn't too worked up about border surges these days (that was so 2019) so you'd be forgiven for believing that the situation has settled down. Unfortunately, that isn't the case. The end of 2021 marked the worst December on record.

Joe Guzzardi says nobody should know better than Joe Biden that Harris' plan to throw money at Northern Triangle countries won't stop a border surge, because then Vice-President Biden himself already tried. More here:

"Getting a dinner reservation at Per Se, New York's restaurant of choice for the city's royalty, is more difficult than entering the U.S. illegally. The wait for Per Se, the Thomas Keller Restaurant Group dining experience, can exceed three months, but border crossers just walk right on in to the U.S.; neither reservations nor identification is required."

Linda Huhn has a blistering critique of government-sponsored smuggling and the media that covers for it:

"Barely covered in the press is how Biden's doublemessage incentive has made human smuggling very lucrative. Let's demand a deep investigation with full press coverage into this smuggler's connections and apprehension of all others responsible, nationally and internationally. We the people deserve to know the full human effects of our government's policies. Whatever members of the press personally believe about illegal immigration, they need to do their job of providing citizens with facts."

ICYMI - quick hits:

• Biden is losing Texas Latinos over the border crisis.
• Democrats are struggling in working-class districts, including racially diverse ones, and immigration is a big reason why.
• The author of "The Emerging Democratic Majority" now believes that the party's immigration policies are "alienating to the average voter."
• Republicans could pick up some alienated voters by embracing E-Verify.
• The data back Gov. Ron DeSantis on the costs of illegal immigration.
• The H-1B visa helped prolong the Theranos fraud.
• The 1986 amnesty shattered the public's faith in compromise.
• When a politician says "this isn't amnesty," it is.

Thank you for sharing the book and message of Back of The Hiring Line.