A VDARE.COM reader reports that Bloomberg.com has finally reported a negative fact about immigration - and he uses it to make a good point about health insurance:

I’m a software developer whose career has been ravaged by the H-1B visa program.

One strong argument you can make against non-immigrant visas and illegal immigration is the sad state of health insurance in the US. If there really was a “skills” shortage, employers would be offering health insurance and lower copays. But in fact, the opposite is true. Fewer citizens have health insurance and for those that are lucky enough to have this benefit - the copays keep increasing and taking a bigger bite out of the paycheck.

IF THERE IS A SKILLS SHORTAGE, THEN WHY AREN’T EMPLOYERS OFFERING BETTER BENEFITS, LIKE HEALTH INSURANCE, TO ATTRACT EMPLOYEES?

And if Democrats are for the “little guy” and want citizens to have better access to health insurance, then why are so many of them pro illegal immigration and for increasing the H-1B visa limit?

This article on bloomberg.com provides further proof.

The article, “American Workers Rejecting Jobs as Immigrants Drive Down Wages “ by Heidi Przybyla, quotes George Borjas,saying “The idea that somehow you have a need for people to do jobs that Americans won’t do is just insane,” and continues by noting that it’s the low pay and lack of benefits that drive natives away.

Bloomberg’s owner, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, has said illegal immigrants are good because they maintain his golf course. (I’m not making this up). Now maybe he’ll read his own news service.

As regular VDARE.COM readers know, it is hard for me to contain my joy at the very favorable trend for us in the immigration wars.

Now, lo and behold, we are presented with yet another Senate miscalculation of staggering magnitude.

Arlen Specter, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has announced that the Senate will counter the scheduled roving House hearings by conducting similar meetings of its own.

Specter personally plans to hold a pro-S. 2611 session in Pennsylvania on July 5th.

Is there any way they can start sooner? The more S.2611, the Bush/Kennedy/McCain/Specter Amnesty and Guest Worker Acceleration program discussed in public forums, the better for us

I have family and friends in Pennsylvania; maybe I’ll fly in from California to participate in the “Specter Show.”

Here’s what Specter, to his deep disappointment, will find: that Eastern Quaker State residents would rather not import the immigration woes of neighboring New Jersey and New York.

And Western Pennsylvanians, where my son and his family live, are fully aware of illegal immigration’s ravages. They would like to keep their part of the state immigration-free.

Do not expect Pennsylvania residents to show up waving banners for amnesty and guest worker programs

Pennsylvanians have access to the Internet and listen to talk radio. They know the score. There is no Pennsylvania ground swell for mass immigration.

The obvious reality–except to the U. S. Senate–is that Americans don’t want another amnesty in any form or more guest workers, temporary or otherwise.

They are not fooled by insultingly transparent phrases like “earned citizenship” or “jobs Americans won’t do.”

And if Specter looks to round up ethnic identity lobbyists and various unemployed Hispanics to participate in his rally, he might want to pause to reflect on the giant egg laid by the Hispanic-organized May 1st “Great American Boycott”

For a University of Pennsylvania Phi Beta Kappa and Yale Law School Review Editor, Specterjust isn’t very bright. What else can you conclude?

Here’s my prediction: Specter’s bravado aside, he will not hold a Pennsylvania pro-illegal alien meeting on July 5th or on any other day…unless, of course, he wants to look even more foolish than he already does.