US Civil Rights Commissioner: Amnesty means special, not equal treatment
Breitbart – Matthew Boyle –
9/1/2013
Peter Kirsanow, a member of
the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, told Breitbart News that Attorney General
Eric Holder’s claims that amnesty for illegal immigrants is a civil rights
issue “profoundly ahistorical.”
“If you take a look at the basis
of the civil rights movement, it was to have blacks treated in all respects the
same as whites or everybody else,” Kirsanow (pictured) said in a phone
interview. “What amnesty is doing is setting aside a special class of
individuals who are going to put forward and treated more favorably than
others. In other words, they’ve already broken the law and are being given
amnesty.
"In terms of
immigration policy... it would severely affect the rights of blacks generally
and all low-income Americans. What it is going to do is displace those
individuals from the labor market.”
“We had a hearing before the
Civil Rights Commission on the effects of illegal immigration on black
employment levels, both wage levels and unemployment rates,” Kirsanow said.
“What we had were a number of experts from just about every sphere you can
think of: business, academia and immigration experts in general. They spanned
the ideological spectrum. We had individuals from the far left, individuals in
the middle, individuals on the right.
"They disagreed in some
respects about certain policy prescriptions but they were unanimous in their
conclusion, backed by copious amounts of data," he recalled, "THAT ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION HAD A
DELETERIOUS EFFECT ON THE WAGE AND EMPLOYMENT LEVELS OF BLACK AMERICANS. AND
IT’S NOT A SMALL EFFECT. IT’S A CLEARLY SIZABLE EFFECT.”
"This is such a complex
matter that they needed perspectives from so many different places. What we had
was a bill that was gigantic. It was almost the size of Obamacare and yet it
was released barely 36 hours before our testimony.
"In other words, we
were testifying in an information vacuum on a momentous piece of legislation.
Only after there was a bit of hue and cry did Senate leadership understand that
they needed to open up the testimony to more witnesses.”
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