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At the 9:56 mark of the CNBC video below, Larry Kudlow says:

“Going back to the mid 1980s; Reagan signed a rather liberal immigration bill. We had a lot of immigrants come into this country. The 80s & 90s were really the high tide. Those were also extremely prosperous decades.”

But if we look at some actual facts, rather than Kudlow’s blatant corporate propaganda, we see something quite different (click chart to enlarge):

If we wanted to go back to a Reaganesque level of legal immigration, we would have to chop our current quotas nearly in half. Legal immigration averaged 578,739 per year during the Reagan administration, and since 2001 it has averaged 1,049,560. In other words, Kudlow’s “high tide” is right now, not back in the 80s.

By Kudlow’s logic of “mass immigration = prosperity” our streets should be paved with gold today. Instead, we see a vast impoverished underclass 47-million strong, seemingly on the verge of intifada.

But of course, Kudlow knows that. Kudlow is just doing his part to build what Karl Marx called “The Reserve Army of Labor” – the function of which is to crush wages by flooding the labor market with millions of surplus workers. This army is already huge, but Kudlow is campaigning hard to add more divisions to it. Learn more in my book.

Note: The single-year record for legal immigration was set in 1991. However, Kudlow was talking about decades, so that’s why I used a chart showing decades.

The USA is currently experiencing the highest rate of immigration in our history; nearly triple the average rate. Last year, we brought in 1 million legal immigrants, and 700,000 guest workers. That’s quite a lot of people to find jobs for, right? And since the unemployment rate has remained stubbornly high, it would be crazy to increase the rate of immigration, wouldn’t it?

Well, yes, but “crazy” rules the day. The crazy Republicans want more cheap labor to accelerate the Oligarchy’s goal of moving the economy back toward the Robber Baron/Confederate model of sweatshops and slave plantations.

The crazy Democrats want mass immigration because they believe the fresh bodies will vote Democratic, and thus assist them in their dream of ethnic-cleansing the Republicans once and for all.

So, yes, there will be an even larger wave of mass-immigration. The only question is: when will they be able to vote? The Republicans want 15 years to figure out how to weasel out of the agreement. The Democrats want millions of freshly-minted voters ready for the next major election.

Meanwhile, pouring millions more immigrants onto the growing Urban Intifada might just blow up the country before either party achieves its self-serving goal.

Note: see my immigration charts here.

In Canada, it is illegal to replace citizen workers with foreigners. But it appears that Canadian banks are above the law, just like American banks. The Royal Bank of Canada is replacing one of their IT departments with Indian immigrants: RBC Replaces Canadian Staff with Foreign Workers.

Does RBC need to save money with cheap labor? Not hardly. The company reported a record profit of $7.5 billion for 2012. To celebrate, they have decided to kick some loyal workers to the curb.

This is what happens when you allow psychopaths to hold positions of power.

Google received a lot of criticism for honoring Cesar Chavez on Easter Sunday. I’m sure they did it to show their support for the immigration deal being negotiated in Congress. And that’s just plain silly because Chavez was anti-immigration, and rabidly so. Chavez knew that the only the way for his farm workers to get paid a living wage was to restrict the supply of Mexicans coming into the USA. Chavez went so far as to send men to border-crossing points to beat back the immigrants with baseball bats. That’s what Chavez thought of mass-immigration – even when the immigrants were his fellow Mexicans. For more details, see what I wrote here.

Ultimately, Chavez was defeated by mass immigration. As a consequence, today, “wetbacks” as Congressman Dana Milbank calls them, are badly-paid, and suffer horrendous working conditions. For example, they are housed in bed-bug infested shacks, and insecticide is sprayed on crops whether there are workers in the fields or not. What’s the big deal? There’s more where they came from, right?

If you are a pro-mass-immigration lefty, and think that you are a friend of American workers, you are delusional, and Cesar Chavez would excoriate you.