{"id":403313,"date":"2022-02-04T06:33:59","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T03:33:59","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2022-02-04T14:42:28","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T11:42:28","slug":"open-borders-historically-dooms-jobs-for-black-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/open-borders-historically-dooms-jobs-for-black-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"#Open borders historically dooms jobs for black Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3df3f19f885\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3df3f19f885\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/open-borders-historically-dooms-jobs-for-black-americans\/#%E2%80%9COpen_borders_historically_dooms_jobs_for_black_Americans%E2%80%9C\" >&#8220;#Open borders historically dooms jobs for black Americans&#8220;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/open-borders-historically-dooms-jobs-for-black-americans\/#Laws_limits_immigs\" >Laws limits immigs<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/open-borders-historically-dooms-jobs-for-black-americans\/#%E2%80%98Prioritize_blacks\" >\u2018Prioritize\u2019 blacks<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9COpen_borders_historically_dooms_jobs_for_black_Americans%E2%80%9C\"><\/span>&#8220;<strong>#Open borders historically dooms jobs for black Americans<\/strong>&#8220;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\"><\/aside>\n<p>In 1853, Frederick Douglass wrote of cities in the North:<\/p>\n<p><em>Every hour sees the black man elbowed out of employment by some newly arrived emigrant, whose hunger and whose color are thought to give him a better title to the place.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>With only a handful of interruptions, black workers have faced the same situation for nearly two centuries \u2014 mass immigration of foreigners whom employers prefer to black workers, pushing them to the back of the hiring line.<\/p>\n<p>As it h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ens, \u201cBack of the Hiring Line\u201d is the title of a new book by Roy Beck, president of Numbers USA, the premier citizen-action group working to reduce immigration. The book traces, as its subtitle promises, \u201ca 200-year history of immigration surges, employer bias, and depression of black wealth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In relating that history, Beck describes three brief flowerings of opportunity for black Americans that came with interruptions in immigration.<\/p>\n<p>First, the years im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely following abolition, before the start of the Great Wave; then, when World War I cut off <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a> from Europe; and finally, the four decades or so after the 1924 immigration-restriction law.<\/p>\n<p>But each case was a false spring, snuffed out by the resumption of mass immigration.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Laws_limits_immigs\"><\/span>Laws limits immigs<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Beck\u2019s core message is that a tight labor market is the most practical means to improve the conditions of all marginalized Americans, non-college-educated black workers most of all. The brief immigration pause forced by World War I was \u201cproof of concept,\u201d with the absence of European immigrant workers sparking a huge northward migration of black southerners.<\/p>\n<p>With mass immigration surging back as shipping lanes reopened after the war, Congress reduced the flow via the Immigration Act of 1924. Given that the law was partly shaped by the racialist hokum that was the style at the time, it is ironic that it became the single greatest engine of black progress in American history.<\/p>\n<p>Beck quotes Fortune magazine\u2019s reporting that \u201cafter the immigration laws choked off the European labor supply . . . Labor agents roamed the South, promising the moon or better.\u201d Poor blacks \u2014 and whites \u2014 streamed out of the South to fill jobs that were previously unavailable to them.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-21089725\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/USA-IMMIGRATION_MEXICO.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/USA-IMMIGRATION_MEXICO.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/USA-IMMIGRATION_MEXICO.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/USA-IMMIGRATION_MEXICO.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/USA-IMMIGRATION_MEXICO.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" alt=\"Asylum-seeking migrants from Haiti cross the Rio Bravo river to turn themselves in to U.S Border Patrol agents to request asylum in El Paso, Texas.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><figcaption>Migrants from Haiti cross the Rio Bravo river to turn themselves in to US Border Patrol agents to request asylum in El Paso, Texas.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS \/ Luis Gonzalez<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This was illustrated (literally) by artist Jacob Lawrence, who captioned one of the panels of his <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> on the Great Migration: \u201cAll other sources of labor having been exhausted, the [southern black] migrants were the last resource.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While there was still discrimination in the North, the modern jobs and higher wages were a boon for those who undertook the Great Migration. Black Americans\u2019 incomes were still below those of white Americans, but they grew nearly twice as fast during the mid-century immigration lull. And Beck makes a convincing case that the benefits of the immigration restriction \u2014 rising black incomes, greater mobility, growing union membership \u2014 were necessary, if not sufficient, factors in bringing about the civil-rights revolution.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\"><\/aside>\n<p>And in another irony, it was precisely the civil-rights ethos that ended up pushing black workers back to the end of the hiring line again. Signed less than two months after the Voting Rights Act, the 1965 Hart-Celler immigration law was explicitly seen as a civil-rights measure, in its elimination of the national-origins quotas that had been at the center of immigration law since the 1920s.<\/p>\n<p>But the sponsors genuinely did not think the legislation would result in a resumption of mass immigration, which all considered a relic of the past. And yet, Beck writes that \u201cthe 1965 act set in motion a series of policies that loosened labor markets by flooding the hiring lines with foreign workers and betraying a century of struggle toward economic and political equality by Black Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As he details the reduction in earnings of less-skilled black workers and their disappearance from occupations they used to dominate, it\u2019s hard to argue with Beck\u2019s assessment: \u201cNo congressional action in the last 60 years has been more destructive to Black Americans\u2019 employment, income growth, and wealth accumulation than the Hart-Celler immigration act.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%98Prioritize_blacks\"><\/span>\u2018Prioritize\u2019 blacks<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-21089723\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/immigration.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/immigration.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/immigration.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/immigration.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" alt=\"A pair of migrant families from Brazil pass through a gap in the border wall to reach the United States. \" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" \/><figcaption>A pair of migrant families from Brazil pass through a gap in the border wall to reach the United States.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Beck doesn\u2019t deny that reducing immigration today could cause real difficulties for employers trying to draw young underclass black men into the world of work, citing John McWhorter\u2019s frank talk on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>But he asks, \u201cWhere is the incentive or pressure for employers to do that kind of tough recruiting and training when Congress provides every month more than a hundred thousand additional permanent and temporary foreign workers?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In calling for a more moderate level of legal immigration, Beck is careful not to blame immigrants. Consistent with the admonition \u201c\u2009\u2018No\u2019 to Immigrant Bashing\u201d that has been at the top of his organization\u2019s home page from its inception more than a quarter-century ago, Beck makes clear that no one\u2019s grandparents are culprits; the problem is numbers, not individual characteristics.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, \u201cEvery group of disadvantaged Americans is further disadvantaged by loosening the labor market, and every group is helped by tightening it.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-21089724\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/immigratoin.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/immigratoin.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/immigratoin.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/immigratoin.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" alt=\"An immigrant family from Honduras is escorted back across the border by US Customs. \" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" \/><figcaption>An immigrant family from Honduras is escorted back across the border by US Customs.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP \/ David J. Phillip<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But coming from a center-left perspective, Beck argues for what you might call a \u201cpreferential option for black Americans\u201d in the consideration of immigration policy. He answers the question posed by the title of his final chapter \u2014 \u201cPrioritize the Descendants of Slavery?\u201d \u2014 in the affirmative:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, there should be a priority of attention to those African Americans who have been left out of \u2014 or discarded by \u2014 the economy of the last half century .\u2009.\u2009. Yes, there are reasons rooted in the 165 years since the end of slavery why we should make sure that immigration decisions don\u2019t harm the ability of struggling African Americans to enjoy the dignity of work and the fruits of their labor as they climb up the jobs ladder and build wealth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the obvious interest that black Americans have in reducing immigration \u2014 and polls show many are aware of it \u2014 they have never spoken or acted collectively to try to bring that about. I think a big part of the reason is that there is no black political leader broadly accepted as legitimate by black voters who has taken up the cause (the Congressional Black Caucus having long ago been co-opted by the anti-borders crowd).<\/p>\n<p>But realignment is in the air. The impressive economic gains enjoyed by black families during the brief pre-pandemic immigration slowdown under Donald Trump are another proof of concept of the beneficial effects of immigration restriction. Beck\u2019s book provides both the backstory and a roadmap for such a realignment.<\/p>\n<p><em>From National Review.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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