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Why are Most National Christian Leaders endorsing huge new increases in permanent work permits for foreign workers ? believe the last significant-sized churches not on the amnesty bandwagon are the Southern Baptists, Mormons and Church of Christ (not the United Church of Christ). Otherwise, all the country's substantial 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.) I believe the federal "U-6 Unemployment Rate" shows the injustice the church leaders are promoting -- the injustice of a society that continues to crush the spirits of our society's most vulnerable under the boot of federal immigration policies that favor unscrupulous business interests. 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 nearly 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 the June 2009 Current Population Survey by the federal government. It appears that most rates have worsened since then.) DENOMINATIONAL LEADERS PREFER ILLEGAL ALIENS OVER IMMIGRANTS ALREADY HERE Even though the church leaders constantly talk about being kinder to the immigrants already living among us, their constant push for more and more new foreign workers to compete is harming the existing community which has a U-6 Unemployment Rate of 20%. Legal immigrants already here are likely the group that would benefit most from opening up the jobs currently held by illegal aliens. In the world of denominational leaders, nobody has higher priority than the illegal aliens, not even legal immigrants. And as much as the church leaders want more legal foreign workers this year, they will work next year for another wave of foreign workers that will make it exceedingly difficult for this year's crop to economically improve. CHURCH LEADERS PREFER FOREIGN WORKERS OVER U.S. HIGH SCHOOL GRADS (all ages) The U-6 Unemployment rate for U.S.-born high school graduates without college is 19%. These are the Americans who predominate in the construction, service and manufacturing jobs that are most sought by immigrant workers. Our current level of immigration is keeping millions of people out of jobs. But denominational leaders are lobbying Congress for immigration policies that will throw even more out of work -- -- and prolong how long they will stay jobless even when the recession is over. The people in this high school graduate category who are hurt most by church leaders' lobbying are (with unemployment rate in parentheses): •U.S.-born Hispanics (23%) •Black Americans (26%) CHURCH LEADERS PREFER FOREIGN WORKERS OVER YOUNG LESS-EDUCATED AMERICANS The effect of church leaders' high-immigration advocacy is even worse for young adults trying to enter the labor market. These are the people most likely to be starting families. Hurting them means especially being just plain mean to young struggling families. The U-6 Unemployment Rate for U.S.-born high school graduates who are between 18 and 29 is an incredible 30%. Almost one of every three young adults with a high school degree who wants to work CAN"T FIND A FULL-TIME JOB! But the church bishops and presidents and executive directors want millions more permanent work permits for citizens of other countries -- including illegal aliens. The inability to get a job, to hold a job or to earn a decent wage and benefits contributes heavily to low marriage rates, high rates of children without fathers in the home, to the joining of gangs and to other criminal and dependency pathologies during these formative years. But our national church leaders ignore the mounting hardship of our young, non-college adults, lobbying for more foreign workers to compete in their occupations. The people in this high school graduate category who are hurt most by church leaders' lobbying are: •U.S.-born Hispanics (33%) •Black Americans (37%) CHURCH LEADERS PREFER FOREIGN WORKERS OVER AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUTS College-educated Americans in general tend to take rather judgmental view of our fellow citizens who did not finish high school. But it is sad to see our national church leaders so willingly dismiss the needs of high-school dropouts. If we had not been importing low-skilled foreign workers the last 30 years, there would be plenty of jobs for hard-working high school drop-outs to live lives of modest dignity. The denominational immigration stances do not take into account in any way their effect on by far the most vulnerable in our national community. The U-6 Unemployment rate for U.S.-b

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