Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 2412 BOCNEWS.com FEBRUARY 2017 How Immigration Harms Native Blacks Despite the stance of many civil rights groups, immigration’s impact on native Blacks and their communities is disproportionate, direct and devas- tating. The Harvest Institute strongly opposes any policies that increase immigration, open this nation’s borders, legalize 11 million to 20 million existing ille- gal immigrants, increase the number of immigrant guest workers or ease newly arriving immigrants’ access to jobs, health care, education and voting. The Harvest Institute’s mission is to help Blacks become self-sufficient and competitive as a group in America. CONSTITUTIONAL FOUNDATION Because Blacks were enslaved by laws, Congress had to pass new corrective laws and Constitutional Amendments to change government policies that were legal under slavery but illegal after emancipation. Congress mandated Due Process and Equal Protection in the 13th and 14th Constitutional Amendments, and the 1866 Civil Rights Law mandated, “All levels of government to use all necessary means to lift all the badges and incidents of slavery off the shoulders of Black peo- ple.” None of the mandated corrective actions have ever occurred. Nor did the civil rights laws and social integration of the 1960s lift the “badges and inci- dences of slavery” from the native Black Americans. Instead the federal government enacted policies which allowed an unending flow of immigrants to enter and compete with Blacks for space, rights, access to jobs, education, healthcare and business opportunities. The Harvest Institute cannot support current immigration policies, nor any increase in alien benefits until the Constitutionally mandated justice to native Blacks is fully accomplished. Population Wars for Resources: The civil rights laws and social integration of the 1960s did not lift the “badges and incidents of slav- ery” and native Blacks are now being pushed into a permanent underclass by an ever increasing influx of immigrants. More than 40 million immigrants, legal and illegal, entered the country between 1970 and 1990. This unprecedented flood of humanity into the country has stressed our physical, educa- tional, health, social and political infrastructure. Accommodating language differences alone cost billions of dollars to schools and other public agen- cies. The Center for Immigration Studies states that immigrant-headed households currently consume more in public services than they pay in taxes and estimates that the fiscal burden ranges from $11 billion to $20 billion above the net gain from having immigrants in the work force. In a 1995 arti- cle in the Journal of Economics Perspectives titled, “The Economic Benefits from Immigration,” George Borjas, a Harvard econo- mist that specializes in immigra- tion, said that the, “...increase in Gross Domestic Product gener- ated by immigrants is consumed by them.” In 1997 the National Research Council reported that the small economic benefits generated by arriving immigrants accrue to the nation’s corporate elite. This unfair competition for resources, public and private, devastates native Black Americans. We live in a majority-wins-and-rules and minority- loses-and-suffers society. Our immigration policies have made native Black Americans this nation’s only planned, permanent, involuntary minority loser. Native Black Americans have never been allowed to compete in the population war beginning as far back as 1790 when Congress enacted the first naturaliza- tion law that placed a zero quota on Black immi- grants. Hispanics, who are non-Anglo Saxon Whites speaking Spanish, are the best example of a group that has been awarded immigration advantages that elevate them over native Blacks in the population war. The National Hispanic Party publicly declared a population war on Black Americans in the early 1970s at a mid-west meeting, and crafted plans to numerically surpass and supplant native Black Americans by the year 2000. The 2000 Census indi- cates success and Blacks have been reduced from second-class to third-class citizens. In 1900, there were only 100,000 Hispanics and 11 million Black Americans. With identical birthrates, our immigra- tion policies allowed Hispanics to increase their pop- ulation through immigration by over 36,000 percent by the time of the 2000 Census. Immigration policies held Black population growth to a mere 300 percent over that same one hundred year time period. Black taxpayers’ dollars helped fund public resources used to meet the needs of immigrants, even though many of those very same resources were not available to native Black Americans. Immigrants Displace Native Black Americans: Throughout this country’s history there have been successive waves of immigrants to block native IMMIGRATION – POINT By The Harvest Institute Continued on Page 21 Whether the jobs categories are unskilled or highly specialized, this nation has a long history of displacing Blacks to make employment opportunities for immigrants.