Ilana Mercer blasts Siskind

Date: Thursday, July 03, 2003 11:09 PM

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Ilana Mercer took immigration lawyer Gregory Siskind to the toolshed
for mixing his advocacy of H-1B with his religion.

Mercer probably wrote her editorial in response to the following
debate:

http://www.visalaw.com/03jun1/12jun103.html
Point - Counterpoint: Greg Siskind v. Rob Sanchez On The Immigration
Debate

Following Mercer's editorial are links to letters that were sent to ILW
in response to the debate.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33379

This is a WorldNetDaily printer-friendly version of the article which
follows.
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Wednesday, July 2, 2003

Displacing Americans

Posted: July 2, 2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Ilana Mercer

) 2003 WorldNetDaily.com

In making their case for a free-for-all immigration policy, open-border
libertarians usually confine themselves to insipid sentimental
arguments. This manipulative fare is easy to dismiss. After all, saying
that immigrants are only seeking "a better way of life" in our country
or that immigration is an American tradition hardly constitutes a valid
justification for laws that are manifestly antithetical to the welfare
and rights of Americans.

Considering the immigration policy currently in place, libertarians who
preach open borders are aligned with the State. Listen to any
politician, bar Representative Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., and all you'll
hear is that immigration is a gift that just keeps giving. The exact
same slop is repeated almost verbatim by these statist libertarians.

Immigration lawyer Gregory Siskind is a good example. Siskind, who
claims his work is inspired by his libertarian beliefs and Jewish
faith, to boot, traffics in H-1B visas. These are temporary work
permits, which are also the route to acquiring legal permanent resident
status. The H-1B visa program is an example of crony capitalism in
action it's tantamount to a subsidy for hi-tech corporations.

Libertarians who oppose the happy-clappy, open-border worship should
have no difficulty seeing these visas as the grants of government
privilege that they are, or seeing immigration policy for the exercise
in the dispossession of Americans that it has become.

Siskind claims his work benefits the economy. As his immigration muse,
Siskind touts the man who monkeys with our money, Alan Greenspan.
Predictably, Greenspan is as hip about immigration as he is about
inflating the money supply. That Siskind credits the Fed chairman with
"ensuring that America thrives" ought to cast doubts on any judgment he
makes about the value to the economy of his H-1B work, much less on his
libertarian bona fides.

Far worse is Jim Rogers' paean to open borders published by the Future
of Freedom Foundation, an organization that generally doesn't
countenance falsehoods. The author and private investor's inspiration
for wanting to drop immigration restrictions comes from the highly
centralized, totalitarian European Union, which has moved to abolish
passports. Under the false pretense of creating a "common market," the
unelected E.U. bureaucrats have achieved a massive consolidation of
power, in the process moving to obliterate many of the ancient European
communities. How gracious then of Brussels to allow Continentals, who
are losing liberties by the day, to move about the Continent freely. I
guess it makes the cage seem bigger.

In support for his open-border position, Rogers claims falsely that the
United States has huge shortages of computer specialists, software and
other engineers. Our Mr. Siskind, for his part, has it that advocates
of limited immigration or a moratorium on work visas wish to shut "down
the country's borders to protect the economic well-being of the few."

Putting paid to these patent falsehoods is the Bureau of Labor
Statistics at the U.S. Department of Labor. Unemployment among
electrical and electronics engineers reached 7.0 percent in the first
quarter of 2003! 172,000 high-tech professionals are out of work!
Computer software engineers lead the way with 62,000!

Quite a sizable number of spoilsports, wouldn't you say, Mr. Siskind?
Yet the current cap of H-1B visas stands at 195,000, and immigration
lawyers like Siskind are lobbying Congress to keep the new arrivals
coming.

In 1992, the allowable number of H-1B visas was 65,000, but due to
pressure, Congress increased the number of incomers first to 115,000
and then to its current level. "Since the H-1B cap was raised to
195,000 visas a year in 2000," reports the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers-United States of America, unemployment among
American engineers and computer scientists has jumped from 65,000 to
114,000 in 2001 to 166,000 in 2002 to its current unequalled high.

During the same time span, the Immigration and Naturalization Service,
cheered on by the likes of Siskind and the congressional cockroaches,
had approved "529,000 new and renewal H-1B visa petitions from U.S.
employers."

Talk about treason. American governments are unique in their efforts to
displace their own population, while at the same time training it in
the art of silent suffering. The locals will go quietly into the night,
mouthing mad mantras about immigration's blessings.

The sheer volume of unemployed highly skilled people in the fields of
science and engineering must give pause. This "may not be a short-term
cyclical phenomenon," ventures Dr. Ronil Hira of the IEEE-USA, but a
result of much more fundamental changes in the U.S. economy. Even
theoreticians who refuse to adapt abstracted models to reality must
concede that it's not likely that America's best and brightest young
people will be pursuing careers in science and engineering anytime
soon, not if they want to eat.

Professionals like electrical engineers and computer scientists have an
added problem. Most of these fellows make their living via the economic
means. The political class and its sycophants immigration lawyers and
activists deploy the political means to advance their aims. As
libertarian economist Murray N. Rothbard reminded, these "are two
mutually exclusive ways of acquiring wealth" the economic means is
honest and productive, the political means is dishonest and predatory.

These visas are an extension of the political means. The small yet
sensible group of libertarians who care about the communities in which
they live should vigorously oppose them.

To learn more about Ilana Mercer, visit her website at
http://www.ilanamercer.com/

Also, listen to Ilana live on the American Freedom Network every

Wednesday at 3:00 p.m., MST, with host Robby Noel. And tune into WNTK
Talk Radio every Thursday at 3:30 p.m., EST, with host George Russell.
Bookmark Ilana's appearances page for regular updates.

---------- The Debate Continues -------------

http://www.ilw.com/lawyers/immigdaily/letters/2003,0626-matloff.shtm
Norm Matloff's rebuttal of Gregory Siskind's response

http://www.ilw.com/lawyers/immigdaily/letters/2003,0627-siskind.shtm
Siskind rebuts Norm Matloff

http://www.ilw.com/lawyers/immigdaily/letters/2003,0701-sanchez.shtm
Rob Sanchez rebuts Siskind

http://www.ilw.com/lawyers/immigdaily/letters/2003,0627-Radulescu.shtm
Delia Radulescu rebuts Matloff

http://www.ilw.com/lawyers/immigdaily/letters/2003,0630-matloff.shtm
Another letter by Matloff

http://www.ilw.com/lawyers/immigdaily/letters/2003,0701-justin.shtm
Justin rebuts Matloff

http://www.ilw.com/lawyers/immigdaily/letters/2003,0702-matloff.shtm
Matloff answers Justin's letter

http://www.ilw.com/lawyers/immigdaily/letters/2003,0703-justin.shtm
Justin's rebuttal of Matloff's letter

http://www.ilw.com/lawyers/immigdaily/#Letters-to-Editor
Norm Matloff's newest response to Justin

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