Steinlight Editorial in NY Jewish Week

First Steinlight Op-Ed printed in mainstream Jewish periodical since HIAS Smear Email Campaign

Stephen Steinlight’s “Cherem” Revoked by Results of Zogby Poll

Welp…it looks like some of our social-Left co-religionists are going to be SHOCKED, APPALLED, and even HORRIFIED as it has become clear that Steinlight is OUT OF CHEREM!

Nothing like being vindicated by a Zogby poll to make you look a LOT less “extreme.”

Steinlight notes,

The editorial asserts that what is preventing a desirable solution are cynical, demagogic politicians and right-wing radio hosts “scapegoating immigrants” who “steal American jobs.” The truth is more complicated. Contemporary low-skill immigration (especially illegal immigrants, a large majority of whom don’t have high school diplomas and 30 percent haven’t finished ninth grade) threatens to re-barbarize American capitalism, destroy the social safety net, and create a permanent underclass. Immigration is a zero-sum game in some respects, and low-skill immigration has brutal consequences for the most vulnerable Americans. When advocates of mass immigration demand justice, one must respond, “Justice for whom?”

The damage inflicted on our poorest citizens is a major concern of many of America’s best minds and prestigious institutions. Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman opposes low-skill immigration because it harms America’s poor and threatens to destroy the social safety net. The National Academy of Sciences’ study “New Americans: Economic, Demographic and Fiscal Effects of Immigrants” found 44 percent of the decrease in wages for the poorest Americans from 1980–1994 resulted from unfair competition with low-skill illegal aliens. America’s leading immigration economist, George Borjas of Harvard’s Kennedy School, has documented its devastating impact on workforce participation of African-American men. Vilifying opponents doesn’t address these realities.