Contrary
to Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions and other Republicans who’ve adopted AFL-CIO
economics, immigrants do not steal American jobs. The U.S. has a labor shortage
in the industries that immigrants are most likely to fill. . . . At the
low-wage end of the economy, jobs go begging in agriculture, hospitality and in
some places. At the high end, the U.S. needs more engineers, software designers,
biologists and so much more. – The Wall Street Journal 7/2/14
Fact
Check: Contrary to the
Journal’s editorial claim, mass immigration is
taking jobs from American workers and lowering their wages as well. According to
Census Bureau statistics, native-born Americans are the
majority of workers in nearly every job category. Therefore,
when immigrants enter those fields they are competing with those native-born
citizens. In recent years there has been an unmistakable trend of foreigners
displacing Americans in the workforce. To say we
have a labor shortage is absurd when we have 19 million Americans
who cannot find full time job.
Decently
paying jobs in particular are becoming harder to find, as immigration depresses
wages for immigrants and native-born Americans alike. Since 2008, according to
the United States Conference of Mayors, wages on average have
declined 23 percent.
The
Journal’s claim that concern about American jobs is “AFL-CIO economics”
is almost comical. Long ago the AFL-CIO stood for protecting American jobs for
American workers. But nowadays that voice of organized labor is as much for mass
immigration as the Journal. The union bosses view immigrants as new
union recruits—and dues payers to enhance the bosses’ salaries.
If
employers for low-wage jobs want more job applicants, they should consider
paying higher wages, and make the jobs worthwhile to unemployed Americans. In
occupations like agriculture—where a majority of workers are legal and illegal
immigrants—they might consider the possibilities of
mechanization, which in the long-run would prove
much more efficient and socially beneficial than the present arrangement.
As
for the claim that we don’t have enough engineers, software designers, etc.,
strong
evidence demonstrates that this simply isn’t true. To cite just one example,
if there is a shortage of U.S. engineers, are 1.5 million Americans with
engineering degrees either unemployed or working in other fields? In all too
many cases, U.S. tech companies prefer foreign workers on temporary visas
because they are cheaper and more exploitable than Americans.
The
editorial writers of the Journal don’t understand what is happening,
probably because they enjoy well-paying employment which isolates them from the
workforce realities most Americans now face. Perhaps they would change their
minds if the Journal’s managers, practicing what those writers preach,
decided to hire cheaper foreigners to write the editorials.
THE ENTIRE
REASON FOR THE AMNESTY HOAX TO LEGALIZE MEXICO’S LOOTING IS TO KEEP WAGES
DEPRESSED!
“The U.S.
Chamber is in the pocket of Communist China and big companies seeking cheap
labor in the United States. We think it is morally repugnant for the chamber to pursue, as a matter of
public policy, initiatives which exploit the poor and oppressed, just so they
can keep labor costs down for their fortune 500 member companies.”
OFFICE of REP. KERRY BENTIVOLIO (R-Milford)
LA
RAZA-OCCUPIED LOS ANGELES: JOBS GO ONLY TO ILLEGALS
As an example, the inspector general offers ICE’s Los Angeles
field office which has flouted federal policy by creating its own private
system of worksite enforcement. During the three-year period considered by the
watchdog the office conducted 147 investigations, with 7% resulting in fines
and 55% in warnings. Even in instances where more than half of a business’s
federal employee verification forms (known as I-9) had “substantive errors” the
federal agents in L.A. only issued warnings instead of fines. One business
mentioned in the report had its fine slashed an astounding 78%, from $4.9
million to a little over $1 million.
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