Former U.S. Senate candidate Rob Maness and state Sen. Elbert Guillory have teamed up in a new op-ed slamming President Barack Obama on immigration policy.
In a piece called “Lawless and the Real State of Our Union,” submitted to The Advocate for publication on Tuesday, Guillory, a Republican candidate for lieutenant governor this year, and Maness, whose future political ambitions have yet to be identified, claim that illegal immigration is crippling the United States economy and has had an even larger impact on minorities.
The duo argues: “No American is immune from feeling the effects of our massive illegal immigration problem, but it’s the minorities in our country who are especially affected by an unsecure border that allows illegals to pour in and take entry-level jobs from hard working Americans. Here in Louisiana, the unemployment level rate for young black men is three times higher than the national average. This is just one of the many harsh realities illegal immigration has created in the United States today.”
This isn’t the first time Guillory, who is black, has made an explicitly racial case in his attacks on Democratic politicians. During the U.S. Senate race, he drew national attention when he slammed Democratic incumbent Mary Landrieu in videos claiming that she had done little for the black community.
Read the entire op-ed from Maness and Guillory below.
LAWLESSNESS AND THE REAL STATE OF OUR UNION
By: Colonel Rob Maness (ret.) and State Senator Elbert Guillory
A few weeks ago, during a joint session of Congress, the President stood before the citizens of the United States and claimed that “the shadow of the crisis has passed, and the State of the Union is strong.” The President’s claim was based almost solely on his assertion that unemployment was lower in our country than it has been at any point since 2009.
While the unemployment rate the White House touts is, in fact, almost half of what it was in October 2009, the size of the American labor force has continuously shrunk. More and more people are chronically unemployed and, therefore, have not factored into the current unemployment rate. Had those citizens also been counted, the unemployment rate would easily be higher now than it was in late 2009.
Currently, the American economy has more people out of the workforce than at any other time in recorded history, with some 93 million Americans out of work. While the President and his fellow Democrats ignore these facts, the American people cannot.
The fact of the matter is that the State of our Union is not strong, and the President and many politicians in Washington, D.C., from both parties, are seeking to make it even weaker through amnesty and “immigration reform.”
President Obama and politicians from both parties have long sought to offer amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants who have broken America’s immigration laws, entered the country illegally, and are currently taking up millions of low wage jobs that millions of American citizens and legal immigrants need to support their families.
On November 21, 2014, the President went as far as to act on his own, circumventing the Constitution and the rule of law, when he signed “Executive Amnesty” into law. This lawless action by the President allowed millions of illegal immigrants who have been in the country for at least five years, or have had children while in the United States, a three year work permit to stay in the country without penalty.
Essentially, the President rewarded millions of illegal immigrants who have broken our laws, and faced zero consequences for his illegal action.
The fact remains that our economy has been weakened by the largest influx of uncontrolled illegal immigration to the United States that we have ever experienced. To prove this we need not look any further than the 93 million American citizens and legal immigrants who are out of work, and cannot find a job because of the illegal immigrants pouring over our borders.
No American is immune from feeling the effects of our massive illegal immigration problem, but it’s the minorities in our country who are especially affected by an unsecure border that allows illegals to pour in and take entry-level jobs from hard working Americans.
Here in Louisiana, the unemployment level rate for young black men is three times higher than the national average.
This is just one of the many harsh realities illegal immigration has created in the United States today. And it is unacceptable.
Our immigration system is clearly broken. And these band aid “solutions” coming out of Washington are making the problems worse. They’re killing the middle class, harming the most vulnerable among us, and destroying any hope many have of achieving the American Dream.
The time has long since passed for the folks up in Washington to secure our borders, refuse to allow a pathway to citizenship for those who have broken our laws, and not allow a single penny to be spent on anything other than securing the borders and repatriating all those who have broken our immigration laws.
Now is the time to fix our immigration problem, and ensure that the only immigration into the United States is legal immigration.
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