Roy Beck, of NumbersUSA , appeared Monday on MSNBC to discuss Obama’s illegal amnesty ( spare video link ). While much of the chatter lately has been about deportations, Beck emphasized the central issue regarding the policy’s effect on the American people:

This [amnesty] opens up every job in America to them. There are large parts of the economy that illegal aliens aren’t able to move into. They can’t work for employers that are law-abiding; they can only work for criminal employers. . .

We have to constantly put our focus on the vulnerable Americans, like those in Ferguson. . .

The President says he is doing this action primarily to stop deportations. That’s a very different issue than giving out the work permits. He could stop deportations; he never has to give these work permits that are the most damaging to the most vulnerable members of society. . .

Why should those Americans who both can’t find a job and those Americans whose wages are depressed by the presence of so many foreign workers, why should they have to pay the cost of this?