"...ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION SURGE KILLING AMERICAN JOBS"

"MO BROOKS DEMANDS SENATE VOTE TO BLOCK DACA: ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION SURGE KILLING AMERICAN JOBS"

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Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) joined Sens. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Tuesday to demand that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid allow a vote on the House-passed bill blocking a continuation or expansion of the president’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) amnesty. Brooks said the policies of President Obama and Sen. Reid are killing the American dream. Brooks said:

I want to emphasize something – we are talking about the southern border but an important aspect of that is not just illegal aliens. A more important aspect of that is American citizens. Right now American families are struggling. They are having a difficult time finding jobs, and when they find jobs they are having a difficult time finding jobs that provide the kind of income that is necessary to support a family. For many, the American dream is something that they will never be able to reach so long as we continue to have a huge surge of illegal aliens across our southern border. I want to emphasize something right now about the American economy, remember Jimmy Carter and the economic malaise?

Brooks noted that recent studies have shown that President Obama’s economy is just as bad, if not worse, than the economy under the days of President Jimmy Carter—hailed as one of the worst economic presidents in history—and it’s largely due to his policies on immigration. Brooks continued:

The labor participation rate today, that’s the number of Americans who are actually pulling the load – doing the work – is at its lowest levels since the 1970s. A big part of that is what’s happening in the southern border. There was a report that came out recently that was startling, so startling that I asked my staff to make sure that the data in it was accurate, and we checked with the Bureau of Labor Statistics, we checked with the Census Bureau, we checked with Homeland Security, and here is the data from the Center for Immigration Studies: there were 5.6 million jobs created from the first quarter of 2000 to the first quarter of 2014. Over that 14-year period of time, in the age bracket 16 to 65, a pretty large age bracket, 5.6 million jobs created by the American economy.