Immigration and America’s Permanent Depression Economy

By A Colleague
Tue, Jan 19, 2021 4:13 p.m.

Martin Luther King Observance

There is a very little-known article from the Center for Immigration Studies that Breitbart printed. 40 years shows the US is probably past the point of no return.

Also, the John Williams ShadowStats graphs I have been distributing since 2009 — June or July 2009 was the BIG LIE that the depression ended. You need only look at the unemployment and GDP graphs of the past 20+ years to see the US has been in a depression; it was that year that Claus Vogt wrote an article explaining a depression from a recession. It is NOT Wall Street but UNEMPLOYMENT that distinguishes a depression vs. recession. The

ShadowStats

graphs (unemployment & GDP) reveal why there are 100 million Americans 16-65 w/o full-time jobs. Imagine the 10s of millions of Americans over 20+ years (difference between U3 red vs. John Williams’ blue) and the 100 million becomes the reality.

The Marxist media feeds the public the U3 (red line) unemployment and GDP (red vs. blue lines for 50+ years (1963 - 1969)) and has continued uninterrupted for 50+ years. Click on the UNEMPLOYMENT graph in 1994 —- Bill Clinton Administration made the long-term unemployed disappear.

http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data

The Unemployment & GDP graphs (blue vs. red lines) of the past 20+ years portrays the US economy accurately. Actual working age 16-65 years old do not have full-time work.

This was the first article I found out the real number of people out of work. You can probably subtract part-time workers, students, misc. categories 20% of the 101 million in the USDEBTCLOCK.org

https://usdebtclock.org/

NOT IN LABOR FORCE NOW: 100.6 MILLION

The CNN/Money Mag pie chart is a good picture. From 86 million in 2011/2012 to 100 million by 2018/2019 in two ZeroHedge articles over two years.

https://money.cnn.com/2012/05/03/news/economy/unemployment-rate/index.htm

86 Million Invisible Unemployed Pie Chart May 2012

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/10/study-ending-all-legal-immigration-40-years-maintains-u-s-workforce/

Study: Ending All Legal Immigration for 40 Years Maintains U.S. Workforce
10 Feb 2019

On Jan 18, 2021, at 20:35, [deleted] wrote:

[Deleted,]

I agree that immigration should be paused for a while to protect American workers, but I have little sympathy for American blacks.

They used to have a thriving and vibrant culture, but it’s deteriorated so rapidly since the ‘90’s; I don’t know if it can be saved.

But one thing that could help is to build black businesses and support black entrepreneurs.

The Civil Rights made a mistake by emphasizing education; this drove blacks into the democratic party as many graduated from college and got government or union jobs.

Of course, now they don’t care about education.

While I support a pause in immigration, I have to say that black immigrants are far better culturally than the native-born blacks.

It’s like night and day; you don’t hear the Nigerian blacks complain about white privilege; they are the most successful ethnic group in the nation.

[Name deleted.]

From: Roy Beck - NumbersUSA.com immigrationinfo@numbersusa.com

USE THIS LINK FOR ACTION -- Immigration restrictions paved way for Martin Luther King successes Date: January 18, 2021 at 15:05:55 PST

Jan. 18th, 2021

THE CALL FOR AN IMMIGRATION TIMEOUT TO AID BLACK AMERICANS

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Last fall, the U.S. Census Bureau reported that the wealth of the median black household was only 6% as much as the wealth of the median White household. (Yes, SIX PERCENT, not sixty percent.) Fifty-five years of an unrelenting immigration surge of foreign workers is one of the reasons. Political leaders concerned about this great inequality should look to immigration decisions nearly a hundred years ago that were strongly supported by the nation’s black leaders.

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GREETINGS, FRIENDS, ON THE MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. HOLIDAY,

There is much to suggest that the 1924 immigration restrictions -- that kept the numbers low for over four decades -- started processes that were an important contributor to the successes of Martin Luther King Jr. in the ending of legalized segregation.

The key figure to help us see that connection is the tall, older man who was with King at the Washington Memorial when he made his iconic “I have a dream” speech: A. Philip Randolph.

Randolph was the lead organizer and head of that 1963 March on Washington that led to the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Although not as well known today, Randolph was one of the most influential and effective of America's civil rights giants.

Randolph also had a history of advocating immigration restrictions to finally begin moving the descendants of American slavery into the middle class.

When Congress was preparing to pass legislation in 1924 that dramatically reduced the annual immigration quota, Randolph wrote in The Messenger publication of Harlem:

“ . . . we favor reducing it to nothing . . . ”

Randolph, as the nation's leading labor organizer of black workers, joined a multitude of black writers and publishers of that era who decried the Great Wave of immigration that they believed had pushed the descendants of slavery to the back of the hiring lines for four decades.

Many felt a total immigration time-out for a few years would give descendants of slavery an opening to establish themselves in new occupations.

“We favor shutting out the Germans from Germany, the Italians from Italy, the Hindus from India, the Chinese from China, and even the Negroes from the West Indies.

“This country is suffering from immigrant indigestion. “It is time to call a halt on this grand rush for American gold, which over-floods the labor market, resulting in lowering the standard of living, race-riots, and general social degradation. The excessive immigration is against the interests of the masses of all races and nationalities in the country -- both foreign and native.”
-- A. Philip Randolph

Randolph was not being xenophobic or nativist or racist; he simply was asking for less foreign immigration for the benefit of all American workers already living in the country, whether native-born or foreign born. NumbersUSA stands in the same tradition.

The 1924 law was flawed and is not the model for legislation we need today, except in its ability to dramatically reduce the flow of foreign worker competition.

That immigration reduction was essential for enabling the historic Great Migration of the descendants of slavery into northern and western industry, as well as other key improvements in the lives of the descendants of slavery.

Read my blog here

https://hub.numbersusa.com/route/7/60060b3c74e18a234dc9fe4e/17126/9/1611011039/7c960f3bfec758135d802c6ea66eabff817f04d767e8685d04dc45b53dfa1c35

on how cutting annual immigration by more than half led to the Great Migration and to decades of phenomenal wage growth for descendants of slavery (until Congress restarted mass immigration).

My blog also provides more details on why Gavin Wright, the great Stanford historian of southern economics, could write:

“This change in the fundamentals of southern society ultimately made possible the success of the civil rights revolution of the 1950s and 1960s.”

Part of that story was A. Philip Randolph’s organizing of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first predominantly black labor union.

Howard University historian Daryl Scott has written that immigration restriction was one of Randolph's tools in winning contracts:

“In the 1930s, Randolph supported legislation to exclude non-Americans from working on railroads as servants. The Pullman Company had often used Asians to weaken the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters’ union-recognition drive.

“In 1933, Randolph supported legislation introduced by Sen. Clarence C. Dill of Washington that forced railroads to hire only American citizens in service positions when engaged in interstate commerce.

“After years of bitter struggle, the Pullman Company finally began to negotiate with the Brotherhood in 1935, and agreed to a contract with them in 1937. Employees gained $2,000,000 in pay increases, a shorter workweek, and overtime pay.”

Using the influence he gained from his union’s economic power and networking with other unions, Randolph is given credit for pressuring President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1941 to ban discrimination in the defense industries. He was then part of a group behind President Harry S. Truman ending segregation in the armed services in 1948.

Read more in my blog

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about how immigration restrictions helped break down racial barriers in the unions that played an important role in the final civil rights surge in the 1950s and 1960s.

Tight labor conditions have always been the best friend the descendants of American slavery ever had. What a fitting tribute on this year's MLK Day if Members of Congress would commit to making all immigration decisions based on how they will tighten -- rather than loosen -- the labor market.

During the 1924-1965 period, low immigration benefitted all American workers, but black workers the most. A return to more moderate annual immigration numbers would also improve wages and working conditions for all races and nationalities of American workers, including the legal immigrants already in this country.

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about honoring the civil rights past and improving the future by reducing immigration.

ROY BECK, NUMBERSUSA FOUNDER & PRESIDENT