50 Worst Deserters of Jobless Americans

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Sep 03, 2010, 01:36 ET

(In Face of Unfair Foreign-Labor Competition)

WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- During the last two years of a virtual jobs depression, these 50 led Congress in allowing the addition of another 75,000 permanent working-age immigrants every MONTH and in allowing about 7 million illegal foreign workers to keep their jobs in construction, service, manufacturing and transportation. Recent government data show that 22 million U.S. workers who want a job can't find one. But these 50 Members of Congress deserted those Americans in favor of increasing the number of foreign workers competing with them in the hiring line.

The non-partisan NumbersUSA rates every member on every committee and floor vote and every bill co-sponsorship that would either increase or reduce the foreign workers (legal and illegal) in the country. All actions and the computerized grading calculations are displayed on www.NumbersUSA.com. Those in Congress who do the most to protect American workers in terms of immigration policies receive an A+, while those doing the least receive an F-minus.

All 50 "Deserters" on this list:

received grades of F-minus and 0%, failing to take a single action to reduce competition for jobless Americans.
are asking voters to re-elect them to Congress this November
are in the Senate or in the House where they are leaders with special opportunity to influence policy toward jobless Americans because they either are congressional chairmen, leaders of their Party or on the Judiciary Committee with direct jurisdiction over immigration.

WORST DESERTERS IN THE SENATE

Bennet, Michael (CO)

Feingold, Russell (WI)

Gillibrand, Kirsten (NY)

Inouye, Daniel (HI)

Leahy, Patrick (VT)

Mikulski, Barbara (MD)

Reid, Harry (NV)

WORST DESERTERS IN THE HOUSE

Ackerman, Gary (NY 05th)

Baldwin, Tammy (WI - 02nd)

Becerra, Xavier (CA - 31st)

Berman, Howard (CA - 28th)

Chu, Judy (CA - 32nd)

Clarke, Yvette (NY - 11th)

Clyburn, James (SC - 06th)

Conyers, John (MI - 14th)

Cummings, Elijah (MD - 07th)

Engel, Eliot (NY - 17th)

Grijalva, Raul (AZ - 07th)

Gutierrez, Luis (IL - 04th)

Hastings, Alcee (FL - 23rd)

Hoyer, Steny (MD - 05th)

Jackson-Lee, Sheila (TX - 18th)

Johnson, Hank (GA - 04th)

Kucinich, Dennis (OH - 10th)

Lewis, John (GA - 05th)

Lofgren, Zoe (CA - 16th)

Markey, Edward (MA - 07th)

McDermott, Jim (WA 07th)

Nadler, Jerrold (NY - 08th)

Napolitano, Grace (CA - 38th)

Olver, John (MA - 01st)

Quigley, Mike (IL - 05th)

Pelosi, Nancy (CA - 8th)

Rahall, Nick (WV - 03rd)

Rangel, Charles (NY - 15th)

Rush, Bobby (IL - 01st)

Sanchez, Linda (CA - 39th)

Schakowsky, Janice (IL - 09th)

Scott, Robert (VA - 03rd)

Serrano, Jose (NY - 16th)

Slaughter, Louise (NY - 28th)

Stark, Pete (CA - 13th)

Thompson, Bennie (MS - 02nd)

Towns, Edolphus (NY - 10th)

Velazquez, Nidia (NY - 12th)

Tsongas, Niki (MA - 05th)

Wasserman-Schultz, Debbie (FL - 20th)

Watt, Melvin (NC - 12th)

Waxman, Henry (CA - 30th)

Woolsey, Lynn (CA - 06th)

NumbersUSA also announced the "50 Best Defenders of Jobless Americans."

NumbersUSA is a non-profit and non-partisan organization with more than one million activist members. It was formed in 1996 in part to carry out the recommendations of the bi-partisan U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform (chaired by the late Barbara Jordan) which opposed immigration policies that depress wages and job prospects for the most vulnerable members of the national community.

SOURCE NumbersUSA