Obama wants more black immigration

3 August 2008

Obama ... wants the current huge level of immigration to be continued - but he does want change!

He wants to make it blacker – specifically Haitian.

According to Matt Schofield, posting on the Penn Station blog maintained by the Kansas City Star:

Have you ever wondered exactly what Sen. Barack Obama's stance on legal and illegal immigration is?

At the Unity: Journalists of Color convention last week in Chicago, Obama laid much of it out in detail.

And as far as the senator is concerned, there's nothing wrong with the large numbers of people around the world wanting to immigrate to the United States. The problem is America has an illegal immigration system that runs parallel to a legal one, he said.

As a result, Obama is a major proponent of sweeping immigration reform.

"We are a nation of immigrants and we are nation of laws," Obama told the audience of journalists. "The problem that I see isn't the number of immigrants that are coming. We are actually advantaged by the number of immigrants coming. The fact that we're getting people who still want to come to this country and live out the American dream, that's all good."

But Obama said reforming the immigration process and making it more fair is a must.

"That means cracking down on employers who are hiring undocumented workers and only paying them minimum wage and not paying them overtime," Obama said. "We need adequate border security. We need to provide a pathway for citizenship for those undocumented workers who are here who have put down roots. We need to get them out of the shadows. They'll have to pay a fine. They'll have to learn English. But let's give them an avenue to become fully part of the American society."

Any comprehensive immigration reform also must examine and reform the legal system, he said.

"We have to make sure we have a realistic approach," Obama said. "Frankly, we are probably underrepresented when it comes to immigrants from certain parts of the world. It's harder for Haitians to immigrate than it is for persons from other countries in some cases. That's something we need to prevent."

So: No inflow reduction. Amnesty. More Haitians/Africans. (Since Latin Americans and Asians are currently heavily over represented, and Obama cites Haiti, this seems to be the correct inference. He could mean boosting immigration from the British Isles, the founding population source of the American nation, now only supplying a minute trickle – but I doubt it.)

Why, Americans in general might ask, does the country need more of a people who have spectacularly failed to make anything of their own countries, many with extremly alien habits, who will instantly qualify for Affirmative Action benefits at the expense of the majority?

Perhaps because Obama is determined to overthrow that majority.