By Chris Chmielenski, Wednesday, August 3, 2011, 10:00 AM EDT -

While the nation has been transfixed by the recent debt ceiling debate, 22 million Americans have continued their search for a full-time job. Now that a compromise on the debt ceiling has been reached, Members of both parties are promising to get back to work creating jobs. Yet their promises are hard to believe considering both parties have refused to act on one of the most pressing job-related issues -- lowering annual immigration levels.

A report in today’s Wall Street Journal brings some hope to the jobs market -- 114,000 private sector jobs unofficially created in July -- but if true, that number still falls short of the number of jobs needed for the 125,000 work permits issued to foreign workers each month by the federal government.

Over the last 12 months, our economy has shed more jobs than its created, but the United States continues to welcome new immigrants – even though we don’t have enough jobs for them.

Our economy’s inability to create jobs has had such a negative impact on employment that even illegal aliens are self-deporting and heading back to their home countries where job prospects are brighter. The Sacramento Bee reported last week that illegal aliens in California are heading back to Mexico where a 4.9 percent unemployment rate is healthier than the 9.2 percent rate in the U.S.

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