Unemployment highest in 15 years, Bush administration won't step up immigration enforcement

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Coming on the heels of layoff announcements by major corporations, including AT&T, Labor Department reports released today show that employers cut 533,000 jobs in November, increasing the unemployment rate to 6.7 percent... The unemployment rate, meanwhile, hit its highest level in 15 years. The data also suggest that of the 430,000 Americans who had been working or seeking work in October and left the workforce in November, many were people who simply gave up looking for a job. If they'd had kept looking, the unemployment rate would be closer to 7 percent.

Meanwhile, radio reporter and White House correspondent Les Kinsolving yesterday asked Dana Perino this:

"Since so many American citizens have been laid off their jobs, I wanted to ask, how long before the federal government begins an unprecedented drive to apprehend and deport those law-breaking illegal aliens who hold..."

She interrupted him to say "All right, that will do it", after which Kinsolving finished his question: "…so many U.S. jobs and receive many U.S. government benefits?" Then, Perino went on to say:

"Look, you know how I feel about immigration... We've talked about it before. The president has put in strong interior enforcement measures, but we also think that we should have a compassionate side to the United States and to think about putting in place a temporary worker program so that we can help safeguard our economy, but also help those individuals.'

Immigration2008a · Fri, 12/05/2008 - 15:41 · · Importance: 9