NumbersUSA October 2012 TV Ad

This ad will run during the 2012 Presidential debates and on select stations across the country throughout the month of October.

3 million unemployed Black Americans is from the Bureau of Labor Statistics -- http://bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t0...

1 million new immigrants per year is from the Department of Homeland Security's Yearbook of Immigration Statistics -- http://www.dhs.gov/yearbook-immigrati...

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[hatimjm1]

Immigrants don't come to America to work..they come here to create businesses. Some of you work for those immigrants. I am an immigrant graduate with 6 employees. I don't have a desire to work for anyone. America has too much opportunity for me to just settle.

[NumbersUSA]

In 2011, 105,708 of the 1,062,040 immigrants who came to the United States worked in a management-level, professional, or related occupation. For the most part, NumbersUSA does not advocate to prevent these individual from coming to the U.S. We do oppose the mass importation of low-skilled workers.

[Deanna Meske]

Great add! So true, for all skin colors, many Americans are out of work because of illegal immigrants taking their jobs, working for less and not paying any taxes, oh and Obama wants to give those guys free healthcare paid by the tax payers, hmmm, what does that sound like?

[NumbersUSA]

Again, this ad is not about illegal immigrants. It's about the 1 million legal immigrants who come to the United States each year.

[Marty Howington]

I'm glad to see this ad going out. I happen to know a lot of Black people that want the same thing any one else does but it seem the administration thinks that importing foreign workers are more important then putting our own people to work. I thought that in America every one has the right to pursue life the way they think best for them. Marty H.

[sanfranciscobay]

The United States does not need import people to fill job openings. We need to educate our own people who were legally born and raised here and employ them.

[SpagetthiOnTheGrill]

Liberals are the ones who do the divide and conquer. They constantly pit groups against each other, like "African Americans for Obama" or "Hispanic Americans" yet call conservatives racists. Blacks don't like it when mexicans or asians move into their neighborhoods, but whites are called racists when we object. Blacks are upset when whites harm them, but completely silent when blacks kill other blacks on a daily basis.

[SpagetthiOnTheGrill]

but why was it ok to have an ad with a black guy saying how hard it is for him as a black guy to find work, yet if we are to have a white guy saying "I'm white and need a job" we call that racist? I'm tired of the double standards. I'm also tired of conservatives who ignore their loyal supporters--that being mostly whites--yet they will pander to people who hate them and who will never support them.

[WiseGal1958]

How does it feel to cheat and steal elections in what used to be a free country? But keep running your mouth.  We won't fail.

[WiseGal1958]

Agreed. And you have a great line there, "it seem the administration thinks that importing foreign workers are more important then putting our own people to work. " I'm going to borrow that. Well put.

[ladylaurenia]

This type of BS isn’t surprising. Right-wing reactionaries have been trying to employ a divide and conquer method among people of color in an attempt to advance their self-serving agendas.What’s ironic about this ad is it all but white washes the history of employment discrimination. It all but ignores the fact that when black folks started challenging their exclusion from employment in factory jobs, white Americans when above and beyond to hire European immigrants over people of color.

[ScorpioBornIn69]

And now with him reelected, it is for sure we'll have another amnesty shoved through from Executive Order. I along with the other 58 million didn't vote for him. He'll stop at nothing to do what he wants and Congress has no backbone to do bones about it.

[Zack Little]

How does it feel to fail?

[p carter]

While this ad does only addresses the negative impact legal immigrants have on citizens on the lower rungs of the economic ladder, the same is equally true of the impact illegal aliens have on those very same citizens.

In past 30 years there have been approximately 87 million immigrants who have come to the US, does hatmjm1 really believe they have have created 87 million businesses? By 2050 we will add another 149 million people to our population. Is that a good thing? I hardly think so!

[alexander wanda]

Obama thinks that if he allows more immigrants they'll all vote for him, and most of them DO! To hell with us regular citizens who's families have been here since the Mayflower. We no longer count. We're the evil white man. Especially the "evil white male"! Obama's all about votes even if he has to import voters.