Roy Beck
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Author, incl. "BACK OF THE HIRING LINE: A 200-year history of immigration surges, employer bias, and depression of Black wealth" and "Californicating Idaho"
Arlington, VA
Joined October 2012
A major factor behind the shocking racial wealth gap has been the serial mass immigration surges that began in the 1820s and 1830s portrayed in this video from Chapter 3 #BackOfTheHiringLine
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@PDeniseLong You are so right, Denise. Nobody but descendants of American slavery can claim the meaning of this holiday.
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RT @MarkSKrikorian: "I call Biden’s parole programs 'McVisas,' because they have all the benefits of a visa but none of the costs or contro…
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"the stopping of the importing of cheap white labor on any terms has been the economic salvation of American Black labor," wrote NAACP's W.E.B. Du Bois about the effect of immigration-reduction bill that passed U.S. house 100 years ago today (Apr 12).
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100 yrs ago (Apr 12, 1924) U.S. House passed an immigration-reduction bill by 393-71 (nearly equal support from Rs & Ds). "It has become necessary that the United States cease to become an asylum," said the bill's author. Annual flow plummeted -- Black incomes rose rapidly.
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@mariasacchetti Nothing hypocritical about that. Mother-in-law still could get into US under Sen. Cotton's RAISE Act that Trump pushed. But only as quasi-permanent visitor without path to citizenship, thus removing "chain migration" potentials.
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@mariasacchetti Limiting family green cards to spouse & minor children not a fringe Trump idea but key economic fairness recommendation of civil rights icon Barbara Jordan for a more economically just America.
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@FWDus But nothing temporary about it. They almost never have to go back home and almost always get to take U.S. jobs for life.
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"Expose" ridiculing attempts to end "chain migration" of non-nuclear relatives lacked context. Limiting family green cards to spouse & minor children not a fringe Trump idea but key '90s econ. fairness recommendation of civil rights icon Barbara Jordan.
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Wash Post off-track on its Trump mother-in-law "expose." She still could get into US under Sen. Cotton's RAISE Act that Trump pushed. But only as quasi-permanent visitor without path to citizenship, thus removing "chain migration" potentials.
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RT @PDeniseLong: For the REST of Black American History Month. I'mma lift these from @NumbersUSA The more things change, the more they st…
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On Barbara Jordan's 88th birthday, here's a piece of Black History that reminds us of her contribution to economic justice for all Americans.
Young people deserve to learn about Black history in accurate, age-appropriate ways – during #BlackHistoryMonth and all year long ✨. 📲 Use and share @LearnforJustice's list of resources to learn about & elevate Black history in all of its complexity 🔗:
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I'm convinced there would be no border mess today if Congress had accepted Barbara Jordan's recommendations, especially to mandate all employers use what is now known as E-Verify. No better tribute to her than to finally enact the law this spring.
Birthday wishes are in order for former U.S. representative and Houstonian, Barbara Jordan. 🎂 She would have been 88 years old today. 1/
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And also today, Barbara Jordan would have turned 88 -- another bastion of inspiration for economically just federal policies.
I’m remembering the immortal words of the late John Lewis, who would have turned 84 today. During times of profound injustice and inequality, John Lewis was the conscience of America, a bastion of virtue who inspired all of us to seek a more just society.
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"Where have you gone, Barbara Jordan? Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you." HAPPY BIRTHDAY to a leader whose common-sensical & sensitive approach to immigration policy would solve the border crisis within a year.
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It sets a FLOOR of at least 1.4 million uninvited border crossers a year as below the threshold of a crisis. The Senate proposal might improve the current situation a bit but would still preserve most of the additional chaos that has been added since 2020.
I've been covering the border since 2019 and this border bill is exactly what's wrong with how D.C. tries to "fix" a problem: Spends more money, gives more power to the feds, and doesn't actually solve the problem. Again, a bill from Congress is not needed to solve the acute problem at the border. Biden just needs to undo the executive orders he signed on day one. The historic influx of illegal immigrants was started by the policies his administration has recklessly pursued.
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This was a great standard for EVERY nation which understandably tends to fashion its immigration policies around what is best for the existing members of the national community.
Coolidge on immigration: "We have certain standards of life that we believe are the best for us. We do not ask other nations to discard theirs, but we do want to preserve ours."
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But I'm seeing very little sign of MSM letting their readers know what the policy sticking points are -- focusing only the political horse race stuff. Not an encouraging indication of professionalism.
Professional journalists will always note that talk of a bipartisan Senate deal accepting 5K border entries a day adds up to 1.8 million for the year. THAT alone is reason to reject. THAT is about policy & not politics.
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All starting to happen again in Black urban communities like Chicago's where masses of (mostly bogus) foreign asylum seekers will be taking jobs that employers otherwise would have had to recruit jobless Freedmen to do. My oped shows the historic pattern.
Government contractors fired Black American workers during the rebuild of Hurricane Katrina to replace them with illegal aliens and immigrants who would accept lower wages. How disgusting to layoff American men who were rebuilding their own community!
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