Scapegoating on Steroids

Statement

On Thursday, March 10, in an on-going scheme to pit workers in America against each other, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement will hold a hearing with the misdirected title "New Jobs in Recession and Recovery: Who Are [sic] Getting Them and Who Are [sic] Not." Representative Xavier Becerra (CA-31), Vice Chair of the House Democratic Caucus, released the following statement in response:

"We've all been waiting for more than two months for the now not-so-new Republican majority in the House to do something to compliment the job creation propelled by President Obama and Democrats over the past two years. It's strange that Republicans chose the Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement as the place to launch such an effort. Actually, it seems the principal purpose of the hearing is to deflect focus away from their job-destroying budget proposal (costing 700,000 jobs).

Blaming others, in this case legal immigrants, for your own failings doesn't produce a single job. It's also the oldest trick in the book, and the American people aren't buying it.

After 10 weeks you would think that the House Republicans would have produced a plan to create jobs in America. Instead, this hearing amounts to scapegoating on steroids, pitting Americans of one background against Americans of another. It's a plan that creates zero jobs, but a lot of excuses."

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