June 27, 2007 - Foreigners are taking American’s jobs. No, the foreigners are not from Mexico or Nicaragua or Guatemala and they aren’t taking American’s jobs in Dallas or Des Moines or Charleston or Chicago. Spanish speaking immigrants, legal or illegal, aren’t “taking American jobs” as the populist poseurs would have you believe. Their impact on the American employment economy is negligible. They and the political opportunists that have latched onto the immigration issue have hidden the real issue behind a smokescreen behind which the real dislocation of American workers is taking place.

The real threat to the future of the American worker won’t be ameliorated by building an impregnable wall along our southern border. We need a wall alright, but it isn’t a wall to keep workers out. We need a wall to keep jobs in. We need a wall alright, but it isn’t built of steel and stone. We need a wall of policies designed to discourage outsourcing of jobs abroad and encourage repatriation of those jobs already gone. The economic enemy is not hordes of Latinos lined up to migrate to improve their economic lot by working. The economic enemy is a handful of overpaid executives sitting in boardrooms seeking to improve their bonuses by exploiting economic hardship overseas. Before the politicians discovered “illegal immigrants” we recognized that the real threat was the export of jobs we called “outsourcing”.......click here for entire article