{"id":9059,"date":"2006-11-14T12:43:57","date_gmt":"2006-11-14T17:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/9059.html"},"modified":"2006-11-14T12:43:57","modified_gmt":"2006-11-14T17:43:57","slug":"tying-immigration-to-abortion-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/tying-immigration-to-abortion-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tying immigration to abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Way back in March, I noted<\/a> that Georgia State Sen. Nancy Schaefer (R) crafted a bizarre connection<\/a> between abortion and immigration when she argued, “I am convinced it is a consequence [of] the almost 50 million children we have put to death in their mother’s womb through abortion. The large, unfilled job market in Georgia would not be a problem if the almost 50 million Americans were here, filling many of those jobs.”<\/p>\n

Alas, it wasn’t just an obscure far-right state lawmaker who takes this notion seriously — the abortion-immigration nexus seems to have truly caught on among conservatives. Convicted Watergate felon and Prison Fellowship Ministries founder Chuck Colson has joined the bandwagon<\/a>, as have Republican state lawmakers in Missouri<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A report from a Republican-led Missouri House committee argues that illegal immigration is partly the result of abortion and a “welfare culture,” findings that Democrats called ridiculous. […]<\/p>\n

“The lack of a traditional work ethic, combined with the effects of 30 years of abortion and expanding liberal social welfare policies have produced a shortage of workers and a lack of incentive for those who can work,” the report said. “Today’s growing affinity for government dependency has created a class of potential employees who are not eager to work.”<\/p>\n

Other sections of the report supporting this argument said that “the entitlement and government welfare culture that has emerged over the last 50 years” had caused a shortage of workers, and “many Americans prefer a subsistence income from the public treasury rather than earning a similar or better income as a reward for hard work.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Really, is there something in the water?
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\nI suppose it’s worth noting, of course, that the Missouri House’s bizarre conclusions did not go by without refutation.<\/p>\n

The six Democrats on the House Special Committee on Immigration Reform refused to sign the panel’s final report, which was signed by the 10 Republican members. In a letter to Rep. Ed Emery, the Lamar Republican who heads the committee, the Democrats said the report included things the panel never discussed and other comments that were “inappropriate.” […]<\/p>\n

Rep. Trent Skaggs, a North Kansas City Democrat, said the sections on abortion and “liberal social welfare policies” sucked all credibility out of the report.<\/p>\n

“It’s delusional and not really owning up to what the problems are,” Skaggs said of the report.<\/p>\n

Rep. Ed Wildberger, a St. Joseph Democrat on the committee, agreed and called Emery’s arguments “ridiculous.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In terms of substance, national immigration expert Tamar Jacoby, a senior fellow with the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research in New York, noted that rising education and more skilled American workers have a great deal to do with the demand for immigrant labor, and the welfare argument doesn’t make any sense in light of work requirements imposed in 10 years.<\/p>\n

Reality aside, did some kind of memo go out from Phyllis Schlafly to blame immigration issues on liberal social policy? I knew I shouldn’t have let my subscription to Right-Wing Talking Points Weekly lapse….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Way back in March, I noted that Georgia State Sen. Nancy Schaefer (R) crafted a bizarre connection between abortion and immigration when she argued, “I am convinced it is a consequence [of] the almost 50 million children we have put to death in their mother’s womb through abortion. The large, unfilled job market in Georgia […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}