Some legal immigrants displace American workers; why not enact a recession moratorium?

There are dozens of reasons to oppose mass immigration. But with 14.8 million Americans unemployed as of January and another 10.4 million working part-time involuntarily or too discouraged to look for work, and with President Obama calling jobs the Number One issue, the displacement of American workers by immigrants jumps out.

There are currently eight million illegal aliens in the workforce, and the federal government issues 1.5 million work visas every year. Dealing with these two issues would immediately solve the unemployment problem.

The two obvious steps are:
cracking down on illegal immigration
issuing a moratorium on work visas

A few Republicans are speaking out about the effect illegal immigration has on workers. But no one in Washington is talking about legal immigration.

Numbers USA along with a few prominent commentators such as Pat Buchanan, Bay Buchanan, and former Congressmen Virgil Goode and Tom Tancredo have called for a moratorium. But there’s barely been a peep inside the beltway.