{"id":1202903,"date":"2022-01-09T21:34:12","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T02:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1202903"},"modified":"2022-01-09T21:34:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T02:34:22","slug":"new-york-times-harry-reid-dropped-support-for-restricting-immigration-for-political-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-times-harry-reid-dropped-support-for-restricting-immigration-for-political-reasons\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times: Harry Reid Dropped Support for Restricting Immigration for Political Reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-york-times-harry-reid-dropped-support-for-restricting-immigration-for-political-reasons%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1202903&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Former Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), who died at 82-years-old last month, dropped his support for restricting overall immigration to the United States for political reasons, the <em>New York Times<\/em> reports, not because of a lack of evidence showing high levels of immigration hurt working- and middle-class Americans.<\/p>\n<p>As Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/29\/harry-reid-no-sane-country-has-an-anchor-baby-policy-imports-foreign-populations-larger-than-some-states\/\">detailed<\/a>, throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Reid railed against high levels of legal immigration, birthright citizenship, illegal immigration, amnesty for illegal aliens, and the nation\u2019s inability to assimilate such large volumes of foreign nationals.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>In one speech, while sponsoring legislation to end birthright citizenship, Reid said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Immigration policy and national interest are terms that are rarely heard in the context of immigration. <strong>We seem to have lost sight of the fact that it is a public policy and like all public policies, our immigration policies should serve the public interest<\/strong> <strong>\u2014 but they don\u2019t when it comes to legal immigration.<\/strong> [Emphasis added]\n<p><strong>We now admit the equivalent of a major city each year without having the vaguest idea of how we will educate all the new children, care for the sick, provide housing and jobs<\/strong>, build infrastructure, and attend any of the needs of newcomers for those already here. <strong>Each year, we admit more people each year than what makes up some of our states<\/strong>. We admit a new state with legal immigrants every year \u2026 we have no idea who or how these huge costs will be borne. [Emphasis added]\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In 2007, a year before former President Barack Obama was elected, Reid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2021\/12\/30\/democratic-hero-sen-reid-blocked-george-bushs-2007-amnesty\/\">played<\/a> a vital role in squashing former President George W. Bush\u2019s amnesty legislation \u2014 adding to his decades-long resume as a populist politician that fought the excesses of immigration at the expense of working- and middle-class Americans.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5025416\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2016\/09\/wi\/ap_barack-obama-paul-ryan-mitch-mcconnell-harry-reid-nancy-pelosi_ap-photo-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5025416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/ap_barack-obama-paul-ryan-mitch-mcconnell-harry-reid-nancy-pelosi_ap-photo-1-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"The Associated Press\" width=\"647\" height=\"431\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Barack Obama speaks next to Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Sept. 12, 2016, in Washington. (AP Photo\/Jacquelyn Martin)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Years later, Reid changed his tune and denounced his former immigration positions.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/q3kL8\">piece<\/a> about Reid\u2019s passing and his political power within the Democrat Party, the <em>Times<\/em> admits that the former Senate Majority Leader\u2019s position on immigration changed solely for political purposes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Mr. Reid took decidedly conservative stances early in his career, notably opposing abortion and looser immigration laws<\/strong>. But <strong>his positions shifted as the demographics of his state changed, and he eventually became a champion of undocumented immigrants<\/strong> and a supporter of abortion access. Mr. Obama said that after Mr. Reid introduced legislation to repeal birthright citizenship, Mr. Reid\u2019s wife, Landra, swayed him on immigration by reminding him that her father had been a Russian immigrant. [Emphasis added]\n<p><strong>Mr. Obama added: \u201cLater, Harry would say, \u2018I came to the realization that I was way off base<\/strong>. I\u2019m so glad she righted the ship.\u2019\u201d [Emphasis added]\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Extensive research by economists like George Borjas and analyst Steven Camarota reveals that the country\u2019s current mass legal immigration system burdens U.S. taxpayers and America\u2019s working and middle class while redistributing about&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2016\/09\/21\/national-academies-study-shows-500-billion-immigration-tax-on-working-americans\/\">$500 billion<\/a>&nbsp;in wealth every year to major employers and newly arrived immigrants. Similarly, research has revealed how Americans\u2019 wages&nbsp;are <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/cis.org\/Report\/Wages-Immigration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">crushed<\/a>&nbsp;by the nation\u2019s high legal immigration levels.<\/p>\n<p>For every one-percent increase in the immigrant portion of American workers\u2019 occupations, their weekly wages are cut by about 0.5 percent, Camarota finds. This means the average native-born American worker today has his weekly wages reduced by perhaps 8.75 percent since 17.5 percent of the workforce is foreign-born.<\/p>\n<p>In a state like Florida, where immigrants make up about 25.4 percent of the labor force, American workers have their weekly wages reduced by about 12.5 percent. In California, where immigrants make up 34 percent of the labor force, American workers\u2019 weekly wages are reduced by potentially 17 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, every one-percent increase in the immigrant portion of low-skilled U.S. occupations reduces wages by about 0.8 percent. Should 15 percent of low-skilled jobs be held by foreign-born workers, it would reduce the wages of native-born American workers by perhaps 12 percent.<\/p>\n<p>At current legal immigration rates,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/04\/30\/census-one-in-six-residents-to-be-foreign-born-due-to-legal-immigration\/\">about<\/a> one-in-six&nbsp;U.S. residents will have been born outside of the country by 2060, the Census Bureau has found. Today, the U.S. population has hit a record <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/21\/census-u-s-population-hits-331-9m-driven-mostly-by-legal-immigration\/\">331.9 million<\/a> \u2014 driven mostly by legal immigration levels.<\/p>\n<p>The foreign-born population has now hit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/21\/census-u-s-population-hits-331-9m-driven-mostly-by-legal-immigration\/\">46.2 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JxhnBxnder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">here<\/a><\/em><em>.<\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), who died at 82-years-old last month, dropped his support for restricting overall immigration to the United States for political reasons, the New York Times reports, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1202903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1202903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1202903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1202903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1202903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}