Executive Amnesty

New stories about President Obama's promised executive immigration actions are popping up by the hour.

The media isn't focusing on the fact that Obama's plan is to add more foreign job seekers to the labor market (including and in addition to opening up U.S. jobs to millions of people in the country illegally). So that responsibility will have to fall on you, me, and the larger NumbersUSA grassroots operation.

"Immigration is a tough issue to report dispassionately. The costs are loaded onto people who don't carry a lot of weight in our society. The benefits are collected by some of the most influential interests in America, including of course the affluent and educated social classes from which journalists are mostly recruited."

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Executive action is about granting work permits to millions of people in the U.S. illegally so they can compete with Americans and legal immigrants at every skill level.

The media prefers to use the same language the White House does to sell the executive action to the public. But the executive action isn't about providing "relief" from deportations. That's already happened:

"In many ways, the very significant thing that's happened...is essentially the ending of the deportation of people in the interior without criminal records, which is by far and away the overwhelming majority of undocumented immigrants in the United States. That's already happened."

--- Simon Rosenberg, founder of the New Democratic Network, October 21, 2014