{"id":10250,"date":"2015-01-15T20:26:16","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T20:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=10250"},"modified":"2015-01-15T20:26:16","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T20:26:16","slug":"martin-luther-king-jr-enlisted-to-fight-illegal-immigration-obama-amnesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=10250","title":{"rendered":"Martin Luther King Jr. enlisted to fight illegal immigration, Obama amnesty"},"content":{"rendered":"

Martin Luther King Jr. enlisted to fight illegal immigration, Obama amnesty<\/strong><\/h2>\n

BY PAUL BEDARD
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The late Martin Luther King Jr., and his \u201cI have a dream\u201d speech are being used in an effort to fight President Obama\u2019s executive action to grant worker amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants.<\/p>\n

At issue: Jobs taken by illegals that America\u2019s minorities, specifically blacks and legal Hispanics, need.<\/p>\n

\u201cWas that Dr. King\u2019s dream?\u201d\u00a0asks the ad<\/a>\u00a0produced by\u00a0Californians for Population Stabilization<\/a>\u00a0and launched this week on national cable news networks leading up to Monday\u2019s celebration of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.\u2019s birthday.<\/p>\n

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The ad is the latest anti-Obama move by his critics of immigration reform and follows recent polls showing that African-Americans and other minorities worry that illegals are taking jobs, housing and healthcare they should get.<\/p>\n

The announcer asks how Dr. King \u201cwould feel about 19 percent of African-Americans unemployed or underemployed? About giving amnesty and work permits to four million illegal aliens with so many Americans jobless? About admitting one million more immigrant workers in 2015 when 13 percent of Hispanic Americans are having trouble finding work? About Americans of all races not seeing a real wage increase in decades?\u201d<\/p>\n

It also notes that the unemployment rate among African-Americans is 19.2 percent, and 13.6 percent for Hispanics, way above the national average and that for whites.<\/p>\n

VIDEO \u2014\u00a0Boehner: House will fund DHS, fight Obama on immigration<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The commercial concludes, \u201cWas that Dr. King\u2019s dream?\u201d<\/p>\n

The group\u2019s spokesman, Joe Guzzardi, said, \u201cDr. Martin Luther King, Jr. promoted equal treatment for all Americans. But President Obama is putting the interests of immigrant workers ahead of American workers who want jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cthe president\u2019s policies are disproportionately harming the most vulnerable American workers who, more often than not, are minority Americans. Maybe the president and those in Congress pushing for more immigrant workers have lost sight of Dr. King\u2019s dream?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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