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President Barack Obama once declared that an influx of illegal immigrants
will harm "the wages of blue-collar Americans" and "put strains on an
already overburdened safety net."
"[T]here's no denying that many blacks share the same anxieties as many
whites about the wave of illegal immigration flooding our Southern border-a
sense that what's happening now is fundamentally different from what has
gone on before," then-Senator Obama wrote in his 2006 autobiography, "The
Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream."
"Not all these fears are irrational," he wrote.
"The number of immigrants added to the labor force every year is of a
magnitude not seen in this country for over a century," Obama noted. "If
this huge influx of mostly low-skill workers provides some benefits to the
economy as a whole-especially by keeping our workforce young, in contrast to
an increasingly geriatric Europe and Japan-it also threatens to depress
further the wages of blue-collar Americans and put strains on an already
overburdened safety net."
If these feel like the words of one of Obama's opponents, it's because
they're the exact argument the president's critics have been making as he
now rushes to announce a sweeping executive order that would give work
permits to millions of illegal immigrants in the country.
In the passage, Obama also reveals that he personally feels "patriotic
resentment" when he sees Mexican flags at immigration rallies.
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