16 BOCNEWS.com FEBRUARY 2019 Immigration Harms Native Blacks Executing immigration policies without mitigating the negative impact that those polices might have on Black Americans is illegal and unconstitutional. The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, enacted at the end of the 1860s Civil War, man- dated that Black people be treated in all manners similar to Whites. Since then, six succeeding gen- erations of immigrants have been fast tracked into full American Dream membership and benefits over Black Americans who remain the nation’s official underclass. Black Americans remain an obsolete and aban- doned labor class because the original mandates of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution have been ignored, violated and corrupted. The 14th Amendment stipulated and mandated that all levels of government exercise all necessary means to lift the legacies and burdens off of the shoulders of Black Americans. These constitutional amendments were the collective base for the 1866 Civil Rights Laws designed to correct the 1857 Dredd Scott decision that held a Black man had no rights a White man was bound to respect. These laws were intended, not for all people, but to specifically correct the systemic injustice imposed upon Black people. Throughout this nation’s history, there have been successive waves of immigrants that blocked the access of native Blacks to, or pushed them off of the upward mobility ladder of success. After slavery over 100 million Europeans immigrants displaced Blacks in every labor and professional occupation. Since slavery, Black displacement continues unabated in areas such as: SPACE: Although immigrants today move into rural communities and suburbs, most tend to migrate into and gentrify majority urban Black communities in which they compete with native Blacks. Once they establish a footprint, they mark and close their living space by using their language, culture, and enclave as a protective barrier and enclave. The direct private and governmental assistance they receive aids them across America, to push Blacks out and gentrify old Black neigh- borhoods turning them into China Towns, Mexican Towns, or Arab towns. ECONOMICS: Black Americans are not economi- cally progressing. In compara- tive and proportional terms, they remain where they were following the Civil War, fixed at the bottom with the least wealth and income. The eco- nomic restraining impact that immigration has on Black Americans is quantifiable. For every 10 percent increase in the number of immigrants entering this nation, the annual income of Black Americans is reduced by three-tenths of one percent. As an example, in the 1950s, Blacks had an earnings ratio of 56 cents to every $1 earned by Whites. As result of the 1960 Black civil rights movement, Black earnings ratio went up to 66 cent compared to the White dollar. However, between 1970 and 1990, there was a 300 percent increase in the number of Hispanic, Asian, and Arab immigrants. The ratio of Black earnings to Whites dropped from 66 cents back to 57 cents. The nine point economic gains of the Black civil rights movement was wiped out by a 300 percent increase of immigrant that occurred between 1970 and 1990. EMPLOYMENT: Whether the jobs categories are unskilled or require a high skill-set, this nation has a long history of using immigrants to displace Black labor in the workplace. As examples: the U.S. Depart. Of Commerce reported that when the Civil War ended, of the 120,000 skilled craftsmen and arti- sans, over 100,000 of them were Black Americans. By the mid-1890s, new immigration policies brought in 26 million immigrants who blocked Black oppor- tunities and totally displaced them in skilled crafts, farming and businesses. Today, nearly 50 percent of the workers who fill highly technical jobs are immi- grants recruited and hired under the H-1B visa pro- gram for both government and private corporations. Since 2007, when Blacks had a national structural unemployment rate of 35 percent, and Hispanic unemployment was 4.5 percent, approximately 48 percent of all new hires were Hispanics immigrants. Government and private businesses have yet to tar- get Blacks for employment opportunities as they do for immigrants. AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AND PUBLIC POLICIES: Affirmative action programs were, or originally intended, to be corrective actions for handicapping conditions and injustices imposed on 22 genera- tions of Black Americans. Public policies that ignore the exceptional history of Native Black Americans, and equate them to newly arriving immigrants com- pounds historical racial injustices and are illegal. There is no mandate to benefit immigrants over native Blacks. To date, the nation has not complied with either the 13th or 14th Amendments to the Constitution or the 1866 civil rights laws. To develop immigration policies that will follow the Constitution regarding Blacks and build a stronger America, immigration policies should be based on the following under- standings: ■ ■ Newton’s 3rd law of motion says that for every action there is an equal and opposite reac- tion. Opportunities provided to immigrants are opportunities denied to native Blacks. That disparity must be central to our nation’s immigration policies ■ ■ Legal and illegal immigrants have made Blacks a perma- nent minority-loser in a major- ity wins society. ■ ■ Original intent of 13th, 14th Amendments and the 1866 civil rights laws was to protect Black Americans. ■ ■ Historically, Black leaders recognized the harm to their people and opposed open-door immigration policies until the 1960s civil rights movement, which after a few years lost its focus on Blacks. ■ ■ Immigration policies should establish Protected Class status for Blacks similar to that of American Indians. ■ ■ DACA immigration policies have already had a negative impact on Black Americans and will continue to elevate immigrants over Blacks with the attendant harmful effects. DACA is unconsti- tutional and should be opposed. ■ ■ Reform existing immigration laws to treat Haitian refugees equal to Cuban and other migrating people. ■ ■ Prohibit eligibility of immigrants for Affirmative Action programs and benefits. ■ ■ Government policies should increase the quota of immigrants of Black African descent to ½ of one percent. ■ ■ Include in all education and citizenship train- ing programs, courses about Black history so that incoming immigrants gain knowledge of the contributions native Blacks have made to this nation. URBAN OPPORTUNITY ACT: A WORD OF CAUTION The Urban Opportunity Act can be a death blow for native Black America if it is not implemented in accordance with constitutional protections and place Blacks into a Protective Class. Historically, immi- gration law and policies have ranked immigrants above Blacks, labelled immigrants as minorities and awarded them advantages and benefits which should have been granted to Blacks. Consequently, to avoid gentrifying majority urban Black communi- ties to benefit immigrants and fabricated minorities, the Urban Opportunities Act must specifically target economic resources and opportunities to the indig- enous underserved Black population. Note: Dr. Anderson’s books, Black Labor, White Wealth, PowerNomics: The National Plan and A Black History Reader: 101 Questions You Never Thought to Ask, provide a full analysis of how immigration harms Blacks. (www.powernomics.com) By Dr. Claud Anderson BLACK HISTORY Claud Anderson When the Civil War ended, of the 120,000 skilled craftsmen and artisans, over 100,000 of them were Black Americans. By the mid-1890s, new immigration policies bought in 26 million immigrants who blocked Black opportunities and totally displaced them in skilled crafts, farming and businesses. causing you to fall asleep at the wheel without even knowing it, thinking that it really doesn't matter when Jesus comes, we will all go anyway. 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