As Breitbart News reported, Hawley detailed in the interview how Republicans like former President George H.W. Bush’s ‘New World Order’ agenda and Democrats have helped to create a corporatist economy that disproportionately benefits the nation’s richest executives and donor class.
George W. Bush Paints Immigrants as ‘Energy and Talent’
Amateur painter and former President George W. Bush is selling a portrait book of “forty-three individuals who exemplify our proud history as a nation of immigrants.”
The book of portraits is titled, “Out of Many, One,” and it showcases the “people who bring energy, and talent, and faith in the future … may we never forget that immigration is a blessing and a strength,” according to statements from the George. W. Bush Presidential Center.
Bush’s rebuke of the American public comes as polls and debates show that Americans know that legal immigration imposes huge costs on them. But the Bush statement dismissed public opposition to cheap labor migration as “the complications of policy.”
The statements from Bush echo the establishment view that immigration is rocket fuel for investors and for the federal government’s clout in international relations, regardless of the impact on ordinary Americans:
At its core, immigration is a sign of a confident and successful nation. It says something about our country that people all around the world are willing to leave their homes and leave their families and risk everything to come to our country. Their talent and hard work and love of freedom have helped us become the leader of the world. Our generation must ensure that America remains a beacon of liberty and the most hopeful society the world has ever known. We must always be proud to welcome people as fellow Americans. Our new immigrants are just what they’ve always been — people willing to risk everything for the dream of freedom.
Bush’s “Nation of Immigrants” claim was first pushed in the early 1960s when wages were rising rapidly in a popular culture that praised Christian Pilgrims, American settlers, and rugged individualism. But the U.S. government wanted business to have more resources to help win the Cold War. In 2018. Democratic Rep. Joe Kennedy wrote:
Few felt it as deeply as President John F. Kennedy. In his 1964 book A Nation of Immigrants, recently re-released, my great-uncle outlines the compelling case for immigration, in economic, moral, and global terms. “The abundant resources of this land provided the foundation for a great nation,” he writes. “But only people could make the opportunity a reality. Immigration provided the human resources.”
Bush’s previous book of paintings featured portraits of
THE BUSH CRIME FAMILY HAS BEEN ASSOCIATED
WITH EVERY WAVE OF WALL STREET PLUNDER FOR THE LAST 50 YEARS.
THEY STARTED TWO WARS TO PROTECT THEIR SAUDIS
PAYMASTERS (WHO DO YOU THINK FUNDED THE BUSH PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY?) AND HAVE
SABOTAGED OUR BORDERS AND HOMELAND SECURITY FOR ENDLESS HORDES OF ‘CHEAP’
LABOR.
As Breitbart News reported, Hawley detailed in the interview how Republicans like former President
George H.W. Bush’s ‘New World Order’ agenda and Democrats have helped to create
a corporatist economy that disproportionately benefits the nation’s richest
executives and donor class.
House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret
Relationship between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties
Audible
Audiobook – Abridged
How did the Bushes, America's most powerful
political family, become gradually seduced by and entangled with their Saudi
counterparts?
Why did the Bush administration approve the secret airlift of
140 Saudis, including two dozen relatives of Osama bin Laden, just after
September 11? Did one of the Saudi royals on the planes have any advance
knowledge of the attacks?
What specifically chosen words did George W. Bush say on
national television during the 2000 election campaign to trigger Muslim
support? How did Saudi-funded Islamic groups propel Bush to victory in Florida,
thus winning him the presidency?
The answers to these questions lie in a largely hidden
relationship between the House of Bush and the House of Saud that began in the
mid-1970s. An amazing weave of money, power, and influence, it takes place all
over the globe and involves war, covert operations, and huge deals in oil and
defense industries. But, most horrifyingly of all, the secret liasion between
these two great families helped trigger the Age of Terror and give rise to the
tragedy of 9-11.
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Verified Purchase
This book will test you. When you
wonder aloud why Congress doesn’t get anything done, foreign wars continue
without reason and deficits are so high, most are unable to see the cause.
Unger doesn’t explain it all but he explains the relationship between money and
power better than any book I’ve read to date.
The storyline of the book takes you through how the rich Saudi ruling class and
really a group of Texan oilmen bonded over business. When you read about the
genesis of the relationship in the 70s during the first part of the book, it
looked merely like the cozy insider-only type of stuff that is common in the
fabric of corporate America and most human relationships.
But the nuance Unger uncovers with his hawk-like ability to pull minutiae from
rivers of source material outlines a darker agenda. His fact finding mission
lays bare a Saudi elite trying to nudge the levers of power in Washington. And
with this insight, Unger explains the nearly invisible pattern in which money
buys powers in America. Unger’s work uncovers so many conspicuous connections
amongst so many smart, ambitious men that coincidence is ruled out as the
cause. Complicity makes the case here as well as any outsider like Unger can.
But the circumstantial nature of this book cannot be completely swept away.
Unger has grokked the nefarious nature of this relationship but is missing the
proverbial smoking gun. There is no ipso facto ‘A funded B which lead to C
relationship’ outlined in the book. The closest we get to this as a reader is
when the Bin Laden family and other Saudi royals are ferried out of the country
while the FAA has all airspace on lockdown, a fascinating story that makes the
TSA’s security theatre we endure at every airport comically irksome.
Recommending this book is easy, but to whom I would make that recommendation is
difficult. If you sometimes watch/read the news with an open mind and wonder,
“How did we get to this place?”, then I’d put this book on your list. If you’re
knowledge of the middle east and current events is low, try paying attention to
that news first, watch for the patterns and then read this to learn the
connections. Most importantly though, any citizen trying to understand the ways
in which money buys power in the modern nation-state needs to read this book.
Josh Hawley: Abolish the World Trade Organization in Wake of
Coronavirus
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5
May 2020414
3:45
Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) says the
World Trade Organization (WTO) should be abolished in the wake of the Chinese coronavirus.
In an op-ed for the New York Times, Hawley credits
the WTO with helping to empower “China’s rise” while weakening American
workers:
BLOG: BUSH'S VISION OF 'NEW WORLD ORDER'
HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH ANYTHING BUT HIS CARLYLE GROUP/HALLIBURTON WAR MACHINE
AND SAUDIS BIG OIL WHICH HIS FAMILY STARTED TWO WARS AGAINST THE IRAQIS TO
ADVANCE.
But in the early 1990s, with America’s
principal adversary gone, Western policymakers were in a messianic frame of
mind. President George H.W. Bush promised a “new world order” of “open
borders, open trade … and open minds,” a new international system based on
liberal values to bring peace to the world. He and other internationalists
wanted a new economic system to match. [Emphasis added]
…
Take the World Trade Organization. Its
mandate was to promote free trade, but the organization instead allowed some
nations to maintain trade barriers and protectionist workarounds, like China,
while preventing others from defending themselves, like the United
States. Foreign agriculture won concession after concession, while
American farmers struggled to get fair access to markets.Meanwhile, the W.T.O.
required American workers to compete against Chinese forced labor but did
next to nothing to stop Chinese theft of American intellectual property and
products. [Emphasis addd]
Under the W.T.O.’s auspices, capital and
goods moved across borders easier than before, no doubt, but so did jobs. And
too many jobs left America’s borders for elsewhere. As factories closed,
workers suffered, from small towns to the urban core. Inflation-adjusted,
working wages stagnated and upward mobility flatlined. [Emphasis added]
Enough is enough. The W.T.O. should
be abolished, and along with it, the new model global economy. The quest
to turn the world into a liberal order of democracies was always
misguided. It always depended on unsustainable American sacrifice and
force of arms. And its companion economic order has, in a similar vein,
succeeded mostly in weakening American workers and industry. [Emphasis added]
The U.S., Hawley writes, ought to “seek
new arrangements and new rules” to restore the nation’s economic sovereignty —
which includes returning to the economic system before the WTO’s creation,
where reciprocal trade “protected our national interests and the nation’s
workers.” Hawley writes:
That means returning production to this
country, securing our critical supply chains and encouraging domestic
innovation and manufacturing. It means striking trade deals that are truly
mutual and truly beneficial for America and walking away when they are not. It
means building a new network of trusted friends and partners to resist Chinese
economic imperialism.
Since the North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA) was enacted and China entered the World Trade Organization
(WTO), nearly five million American manufacturing jobs have
been eliminated from the American economy — 3.4
million of
which are due to U.S. free trade with China. The mass elimination of
working- and middle-class jobs and depressed U.S. wages due to NAFTA and
China’s entering the WTO have coincided with a more than 600 percent increase
in trade deficits.
Of the 3.4 million American jobs lost
due to free trade with China, about 2.6 million — or about three-fourths — were
lost in the crippled manufacturing industry. U.S. trade deficits with China
have eliminated American jobs in all
50 states.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart
News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
TRUMP’S CRAP ON BORDERS
AND HIS PRETEND WALL IS ONLY ONE MORE TRUMP HOAX!
Only a complete fool
would believe that Trump is any more for American Legal workers than the
Democrat Party for Billionaires and Banksters!
“Trump Administration
Betrays Low-Skilled
American Workers.”
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2019/04/billionaires-for-wider-open-borders.html
The latest ad from the
Federation for American
Immigration Reform
(FAIR) asks Trump to reject
the mass illegal and
legal immigration policies
supported by Wall
Street, corporate executives,
and most specifically,
the GOP mega-donor Koch
brothers.
Efforts by the big
business lobby, Chamber of
Commerce, Koch
brothers, and George W. Bush
Center include
increasing employment-based legal
immigration that would
likely crush the historic
wage
gains that Trump has delivered
for
America’s blue collar
and working class citizens.
Bush
Center Slams Trump: We Want More Migration
1AP
Photo/Seth Wenig
3 May
202022
7:11
The economics director at President George W. Bush’s advocacy
center slammed President Donald Trump’s popular, pro-American immigration
policy.
The May 1 slam came just before Bush posted a May 2 video urging
national unity in the coronavirus crash that has pushed more than 25 million
Americans out of jobs.
“The most important thing to remember in this is that we don’t
want [Trump’s] temporary policy to become permanent immigration policy,”
economic director Laura Collins said a video posted on the center’s Twitter
account. She continued:
We know immigrants are good for the economy. We know they’re
good for our culture. We know they’re in this fight with us together, and we’re
going to meet them working with us side by side in any recovery after the
pandemic is over.
Trump’s April 22 immigration policy says the economic needs of American employees are more
important than the immigration preferences of foreigners. His policy
temporarily trims the annual inflow of legal immigrants and directs agencies to
review visa worker programs in 30 days.
Polls show the public — including recent
immigrants — is overwhelmingly aligned
with Trump in prioritizing jobs for Americans over welcomes for legal
immigrants.
The visa worker programs targeted by Trump are extremely
important to the Fortune 500. In response, the companies’ lobbyists and progressives
allies have quickly launched a hard-nosed lobbying campaign and a soft-focus PR campaign to protect the programs and mass migration.
The Bush
center has joined the #AllofUS campaign.
Immigrants
and native-born Americans have always been on the same team driving American
innovation and economic growth. It will take #AllOfUS, working together, to restore the United
States. https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/diversity-inclusion/495352-jose-andres-naacp-and-others-launch-pro …
Jose Andres, NAACP and others launch pro-immigrant
coronavirus
The campaign
made a six-figure ad buy for its launch.
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Congress now accepts 1 million legal immigrants per year.
It also allows companies to keep roughly 2 million cheap and
complaint foreign visa-workers in U.S. jobs. The 2 million workforce includes
roughly 1.5 million foreign white-collar visa workers, plus roughly 400,000
foreign blue-collar guest workers, in professional or seasonal jobs needed by
roughly 26 million unemployed Americans.
Collins touted the corporate PR campaign, dubbed #AllofUs, in
her video slamming Trump’s pro-employee policy.
.@LVTCollins explains how it will take #AllOfUs, immigrants and native-born Americans, to
defeat COVID-19. And once our nation emerges from quarantine, it will take all
of us working together to restart our economy.
See George W.
Bush Presidential Center's other Tweets
“The stated objectives of this executive order were to preserve
medical supplies in a pandemic for American immigrants already here and to
preserve job openings in any recovery for American workers that can be first in
line,” Collins said her video posted May 1.
She continued:
Unfortunately, this executive order is not going to accomplish
either of those objectives.
First of all, the virus affects all of us equally. It doesn’t
care who we are, or where we’re from. Current travel restrictions and
quarantine protocols in place, protect us from viral spread regardless of where
we’re from. And so there’s not really a need to prevent more people from coming
in in terms of slowing down viral spread. We know the virus is here and it’s
spreading. And what we’re doing is working.
However, Collins’ main focus is the economic worry that Trump’s
reform may permanently reduce the unending inflow of foreign workers,
consumers, and renters preferred by CEOs and investors. She said:
We know immigrants are good for the economy. We know immigrants
don’t compete with native-born Americans for jobs. And we know that before the
pandemic, there were millions of unfilled jobs in the United States.
If we assume that in any recovery, all those jobs come back,
every American that wants a job will have the ability to fill the jobs that
were there. We’re still going to have shortages and we’re going to need
immigrants there to help fill those jobs.
We simply don’t have a labor force at full employment, big
enough to fill all the jobs in the economy.
Immigrants — like the birth of Americans’ children — help grow
the economy. They expand the labor force, boost retail sales, spike real estate
values, fuel the stock market, and expand the number of companies. A growing
economy can be good for all — but it is especially good for wealthy people who
can invest in company stocks.
Yet every annual wave of immigrants also causes much economic
harm to the roughly 220 million Americans (and recent legal immigrants) who
work for a living, or who are educating themselves to take jobs in a few years.
Every new wave of legal immigrants and illegal migrants competes
for existing jobs and force down Americans’ wages. The arrivals also expand
poverty, reduce pressure on investors to
buy productivity-boosting
machines, drive up the price of good
housing, and add congestion to K-12 schools and universities.
Immigrants, and especially visa workers, also push Americans out of
careers and technological
research, and they distort Americans’
politics by expanding cultural
diversity and identity politics.
Over the last 30
years, since George Bush’s father signed
a 1990 bill roughly doubling immigration, the government’s massive inflow of
immigrants has kept Americans wages
almost flat (until 2018) and so has
turbocharged the U.S. stock market.
The establishment’s immigration policy has worked with free
trade to shift much wealth from middle-class employees and the heartland states
towards the stock market and the major coastal cities.
Trump was elected in 2016 to help reverse the establishment’s
economic policy.
Since 2017, he has mostly stopped illegal migration, and
he pushed wages up for blue-collars in 2018 and 2019. He has also trimmed legal
immigration, and his April 22 policy sets the stage for incremental,
significant reductions in the visa worker programs, such as the little-known
B-1 and OPT visa programs.
Business lobbies strongly oppose reductions in immigration and
visa workers.
Public
opinion has shifted strongly against mass migration, so a bipartisan front of #AllofUScare billionaires is using
Christian
& patriotic themes to help preserve their supply of wage-cutting workers
& rent-raising consumers. https://bit.ly/2VUqCXo
'All of Us Care' Billionaires Defend Migration Using
Christianity, Patriotism
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Collins’ pro-migration views reflect George W. Bush’s
pro-business leaning and his 2001 push to allow U.S. employers to bypass
Americans and instead hire any willing workers from anywhere on the globe. The
2001 Twin Towers attack stopped Bush’s “Any Willing Worker” plan.
Collins insisted, “We know immigrants don’t compete with
native-born Americans for jobs.”
But the Center for Immigration Studies reported in August 2018:
If immigrants “do jobs that Americans won’t do”, we should be
able to identify occupations in which the workers are nearly all foreign-born.
However, among the 474 separate occupations defined by the Department of
Commerce, we find only a handful of majority-immigrant occupations, and none
completely dominated by immigrants (legal or illegal). Furthermore, in none of
the 474 occupations do illegal immigrants constitute a majority of workers.
For example, companies provide the reward of green cards to
roughly 50,000 foreign visa-workers each year after those foreign workers have
taken technology jobs from Americans via the H-1B and other visa programs.
Business
groups warn the Trump administration: 'Extend work permits for our foreign
visa-workers or we'll have "hundreds and thousands" of open jobs for
unemployed American voters.'#H1Bhttps://bit.ly/2YlijWd
Fortune 500 to Agencies: Help Keep U.S. Jobs Filled with
200,000-plus Visa Workers
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Exclusive–Jeff Sessions: Why Bring Foreign Workers to U.S. When
30,000,000 Americans Are Jobless?
12,
4
May 20204,746
3:07
United States Senate candidate Jeff
Sessions says there is no shortage of American labor, calling out lawmakers and
their “corporate friends” for supporting a continued flow of foreign workers to
the U.S. to take jobs in the midst of mass unemployment.
In an exclusive interview with Alexander
Marlow on SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart
News Daily, Sessions said it is critical that lawmakers defend the
interests of unemployed Americans who have been laid off due to forced business
closures spurred by the Chinese coronavirus crisis.
LISTEN:
Breitbart · Breitbart News Daily – Jeff Sessions –
May 4, 2020
“We have 30 million unemployed … We
don’t have jobs in the United States,” Sessions said. “There are no jobs now.
We’ll lay off more people this week then we did last week.”
“Why would we bring in foreign workers
to take jobs when we don’t have jobs for the American people,” Sessions asked.
“What theory is it that they’re operating under when they try to justify such a
policy position? It’s certainly not in the interest of the American people.
It’s in the interest of their corporate friends and some ideology that they
adhere to … so I do think that it’s time for this Congress to deliver on its
promises that the president made in the campaign.”
Sessions said more Republican lawmakers
must be stepping up to the plate to take on China, holding the communist regime
accountable for wrecking the U.S. economy. A select committee in the House and
Senate, Sessions said, ought to be formed to determine the truth behind China’s
role in spreading the coronavirus to the world.
“Where are the rest of the Republicans?
Where are they? I mean this is a big issue,” Sessions said. “This party owes it
to the American people to defend our interests — American interests. And I
don’t think there’s been near enough action.”
“I would think the first thing we need to
do is to rally the people who understand the significance of this and have what
I call for, is a select committee to study this pandemic and how it started,”
Sessions continued. “We did that after the attack on Pearl Harbor … where House
and Senate appoint select members of congress … and the charge is what did
China know and what did they do, when did they act on it or not, and did they
lie about it? The world needs to know.”
As Breitbart has reported, existing U.S. legal immigration law
greatly benefits China. Visa programs such as the EB-5 visa for wealthy foreign investors, the
F-1 student visa, and J-1 visas allow about 180,000 Chinese nationals to
enter the country every year in addition to the 60,000 to 70,000 Chinese
nationals who secure green cards annually.
There are nearly 500,000 Chinese students in the U.S. in
any given year — more than any other nation — taking seats in university
classrooms and looking to eventually obtain Optional Practical Training (OPT)
authorization to take entry-level jobs in white-collar professions.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart
News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
Josh Hawley: GOP Must Defend Middle Class Americans Against
‘Concentrated Corporate Power,’ Tech Billionaires
JOHN BINDER
The
Republican Party must defend America’s working and middle class against
“concentrated corporate power” and the monopolization of entire sectors of the
United States’ economy, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) says.
In an interview on The
Realignment podcast, Hawley said that “long gone are the days
where” American workers can depend on big business to look out for their needs
and the needs of their communities.
Instead, Hawley explained that increasing “concentrated
corporate power” of whole sectors of the American economy — specifically among
Silicon Valley’s giant tech conglomerates — is at the expense of working and
middle class Americans.
“One of the things Republicans need to recover today is a
defense of an open, free-market, of a fair healthy competing market and the
length between that and Democratic citizenship,” Hawley said, and continued:
At the end of the day, we are trying to support and sustain here
a great democracy. We’re not trying to make a select group of people rich.
They’ve already done that. The tech billionaires are already billionaires, they
don’t need any more help from government. I’m not interested in trying to help
them further. I’m interested in trying to help sustain the great middle of this
country that makes our democracy run and that’s the most important challenge of
this day.
“You have these businesses who for years now have said ‘Well,
we’re based in the United States, but we’re not actually an American company,
we’re a global company,'” Hawley said. “And you know, what has driven profits
for some of our biggest multinational corporations? It’s been … moving jobs overseas
where it’s cheaper … moving your profits out of this country so you don’t have
to pay any taxes.”
“I think that we have here at the same time that our economy has
become more concentrated, we have bigger and bigger corporations that control
more and more of our key sectors, those same corporations see themselves as
less and less American and frankly they are less committed to American workers
and American communities,” Hawley continued. “That’s turned out to be a problem
which is one of the reasons we need to restore good, healthy, robust
competition in this country that’s going to push up wages, that’s going to
bring jobs back to the middle parts of this country, and most importantly, to
the middle and working class of this country.”
While multinational corporations monopolize industries, Hawley
said the GOP must defend working and middle class Americans and that big
business interests should not come before the needs of American communities:
A free market is one where you can enter it, where there are new
ideas, and also by the way, where people can start a small family business, you
shouldn’t have to be gigantic in order to succeed in this country. Most people
don’t want to start a tech company. [Americans] maybe want to work in
their family’s business, which may be some corner shop in a small town …
they want to be able to make a living and then give that to their kids or give
their kids an option to do that. [Emphasis added]
The problem with corporate concentration is that it tends to
kill all of that. The worst thing about corporate concentration is that it
inevitably believes to a partnership with big government. Big business and
big government always get together, always. And that is exactly what has
happened now with the tech sector, for instance, and arguably many other
sectors where you have this alliance between big government and big business …
whatever you call it, it’s a problem and it’s something we need to address.
[Emphasis added]
Hawley blasted the free trade-at-all-costs doctrine that has dominated
the Republican and Democrat Party establishments for decades, crediting the
globalist economic model with hollowing “out entire industries, entire supply
chains” and sending them to China, among other countries.
“The thing is in this country is that not only do we not make
very much stuff anymore, we don’t even make the machines that make the stuff,”
Hawley said. “The entire supply chain up and down has gone overseas, and a lot
of it to China, and this is a result of policies over some decades now.”
As Breitbart News reported, Hawley detailed in the interview how Republicans like former President
George H.W. Bush’s ‘New World Order’ agenda and Democrats have helped to create
a corporatist economy that disproportionately benefits the nation’s richest
executives and donor class.
The billionaire class, the top 0.01 percent of earners, has enjoyed more than 15 times as much wage growth as the bottom 90 percent
since 1979. That economy has been reinforced with federal rules that largely
benefits the wealthiest of wealthiest earners. A study released last month revealed that the richest Americans are, in
fact, paying a lower tax rate than all other Americans.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on
Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
George
W. Bush Center Opposes Donald Trump’s Migration Reforms
23 Jun 2020753
4:05
Americans need more migrants to recover from the coronavirus
crash, according to former President George W. Bush’s presidential center.
The nation’s economic recovery will be slowed by the temporary
suspension on importing foreign workers that President Donald Trump extended
and expanded on June 22, said a June 23 tweet from the center:
Suspending
Immigration Will Hurt America’s Recovery | Learn more from @lvtcollins: https://www.bushcenter.org/publications/articles/2020/05/suspending-immigration-will-hurt-americas-recovery.html …
Suspending
Immigration Will Hurt America’s Recovery | Bush Center
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The tweet links to a May 18 statement that said:
Temporarily suspending admission of immigrants will deprive us
of the unique skills and contributions they can make to
America’s recovery. We should not allow a temporary change like this to become
permanent policy …
We need immigrants to continue working in our
hospitals. We need immigrants to continue stocking our grocery
shelves. We need immigrants to process the bacon we will eat
at our first brunch out with friends.
The claim was signed by Laura Collins, director of the Bush
Institute-SMU Economic Growth Initiative. She posted her own tweet on June 23, saying, “immigration is good for the economy and necessary for the recovery.”
The United States already has more than40
million immigrants, including at least 11 million illegal migrants, among
roughly 280 million Americans.
There is much data that Americans do not need immigrants. When
CEOs offer decent pay, Americans do step forward as doctors and nurses, retail
workers, and meat
processors — a well as software
developers, fruit
pickers, and restaurant
workers,
But business groups are pulling out all the stops as they
denounce Trump’s temporary freeze and his modest reforms of H-1B visaworker
program.
The visa worker reforms will be “catastrophic” if Trump is
elected, said Todd Schulte, the director of FWD.us, an advocacy group for wealthy West Coast investors:
Yesterday’s
EO to slash legal immigration is almost certainly much, much worse than people
assume it to be. The consequences of this if there is a second term are nothing
short of catastrophic. No hyperbole here.
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Schulte’s investors profit from cheap labor because it allows
them to dramatically inflate their startup companies’ stock values. The group
was created by Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Facebook founder Mark
Zuckerberg and now includes many investors who want to minimize payroll costs.
In contrast, Trump’s reforms may help Americans regain a
foothold in the nation’s top technology companies, most of which are now mostly
staffed by Chinese and Indian visa workers.
Most visa workers are hired in blocs to perform lower-skilled, routine software
or accounting jobs. Very few perform high-skilled tasks that cannot be
accomplished by Americans.
These H-1B workers are usually cheaper than Americans, but U.S.
CEOs prefer them because they are
compliant, controllable, and disposable.
U.S. executives know that visa workers are not immigrants. The
visa workers have almost no legal rights in the United States and will
rationally work long hours for many years in the hope of getting paid with a
green card that allows them to escape India or China.
In contrast, American professionals are a labor headache for
CEOs, C-suite executives, and hiring managers. They argue with their managers,
demand time off on the weekend, quit for other opportunities, go on local TV
when their department is laid off, testify in court when low-quality products
cause damage, and they also try to develop innovative products.
Overall, investors and CEOs support high levels of immigration
because it reduces wages and salaries. But immigration also boosts sales,
rents, and real estate values as immigrants crowd into the nation’s retail
stores, car lots, apartments, and housing markets.
When he was in power, President Bush strongly supported cheap
labor migration. For example, he supported the “Any
Willing Worker” plan that would have allowed U.S.
employers to hire foreigners directly if Americans would not take the job at
the offered wage. Bush also supported amnesties that would boost Wall Street
values by flooding the U.S. labor market.
This
is far more important than DACA:
Veritas shows Facebook has an HR memo discriminating against the golden
children of America's professional class, b/c the VPs prefer #H1Bs.
I doubt professionals will let the tech-CEOs discard their sons &
daughters.https://bit.ly/3ehU8go
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'Fosters Diversity' by Favoring H-1Bs over U.S. Grads
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President Trump Risks George W. Bush’s Suicide-by-Amnesty
14 Jul
2020592
7:08
President
George W. Bush alienated the GOP’s political base by pursuing his political
whale of a very unpopular amnesty and cheap labor law.
In 2006
and 2007, Bush campaigned for two unpopular amnesty bills that would have
spiked stock prices nationwide by lowering wages in a flood of new foreign
workers.
“Every
politician knows you have to keep your base and reach out to other votes,” said
Rosemary Jenks, policy director for NumbersUSA. She added:
You can’t
reach out to others at the expense of your base. Bush absolutely did that.
Too many
people in Washington think [GOP] voters don’t have a choice. We all have
choices — and one of those choices is to just stay at home. And there are a lot
of advantages of staying home instead of going out to vote — [so President
Donald] Trump needs to be encouraging people at every step of the way,
especially when it is easy to stay at home.
Bush
damaged himself in his second term, but Trump faces the voters in November,
said Kevin Lynn, founder of U.S. Tech Workers. “At the end of the day, you have
to motivate people to vote for you,” he said, adding:
In 2016,
despite what people said to their spouses, to their neighbors, they pulled that
lever for Trump when they went into that booth. That took a lot, and they did
it because they wanted to see changes, and if they think they have another
corrupt swamp creature in the White House, they might not do it.
Bush’s
push for his 2006 amnesty bill cut his shrinking support from 35 percent in
April 2006 down to 31 percent in May 2006, according to Gallup’s tracking data.
The next
year, amid a difficult war in Iraq, Bush campaigned for the 2007 amnesty bill–
and he pushed his weakening support of 32 percent in June 2007 down to 29
percent in July 2007, according to Gallup’s tracking data.
The 2007
plan offered work permits to all migrants who filed within one year — unless
agency officials could prove within 24 hours the migrants’ documents were
fake.
In
November 2008, Sen. Barack Obama easily defeated Sen. John McCain — who
also supported the unpopular amnesty bills. At the same time, the Democrats
also gained eight seats in the Senate.
This
self-inflicted decline and disaster were measured by Gallup, which tracked
Bush’s ratings throughout his presidency.
Bush
started with low-50s popularity, after a very rough post-election campaign
fight in Florida. His support spiked after the 9/11 Islamic atrocity, fell, and
then jumped when the U.S. overthrew Iraq’s dictator. Then Bush’s numbers gently
slid downwards for the rest of his administration.
At the
end of 2008, having alienated his base with two failed amnesty campaigns, Bush’s
rates were at 29 percent support, 67 percent opposition.
“There’s
no question that doing something that was incredibly unpopular with his own
party did not help him,” said Jenks. “The more people found out what was in the
[amnesty bills], the worse it was for him,” she said.
In
contrast, President Donald Trump has repeatedly fended off cheap labor plans
that are pushed by his deputies. On June 22, he
blocked several visa worker pipelines used by Fortune 500 companies to hire
foreign workers, and he directed officials to rewrite the regulations governing
the pipes. Polls showed Trump’s “Hire American” plan is strongly supported by
voters.
Suburban women strongly support Trump's June 22
immigration policy, says Rasmussen.
His policy gets plurality support among liberal suburban
women – even when they know it is his policy.
Gosh, voters prioritize families' jobs above more
immigration?#H1Bhttps://t.co/eRelf17XHA
— Neil
Munro (@NeilMunroDC) July 12, 2020
On July
10, however, Trump added much confusion on July 10 when told the
Spanish-language TV network Telemundo:
I’m going
to do a big executive order. I have the power to do it as president. And I’m
going to make DACA a part of it. But we put it in and we’re probably then going
to be taking it out. We’re working out the legal complexities right now,
but I’m going to be signing a very major immigration bill as an executive
order. I’m going to make DACA a part of it.
In George
W. Bush’s first term, he hoped to pass his “any willing worker” plan but was
derailed by the 9/11 attack. The radical plan would have allowed employers to
hire foreigners from anywhere in the world if Americans declined to work for
the offered wages.
The plan
would have converted America from a nation of mutual obligations into an
employer-dominated worksite and would have driven down wages, according to many
economists, executives, and institutions.
For
example, a 2013 CBO report predicted that
the 2013 “Gang of Eight” amnesty and immigration bill would reduce the share of
income that goes to wage earners and increase the share that goes to
investors. “Because the bill would increase the rate of growth of the
labor force, average wages would be held down in the first decade after
enactment,” the CBO report said.
The fact
that the labor supply effects wages is Economics 101. Amid evasive denials by
immigration advocates, the fact has been acknowledged by independent academics,
the National Academies of
Science, the Congressional Budget Office, executives, The Economist globalist
weekly, more academics,
the New York Times,
the New York Times again, state officials, unions, more business executives, lobbyists,
employees, the Wall Street Journal, federal economists, Goldman Sachs, oil drillers,
the Business Roundtable,
the Bank of Ireland, Wall Street analysts, fired professionals, legislators, the CEO
of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 2015 Bernie Sanders,
the Wall Street Journal’s editorial
board, construction workers, New York Times subscribers, Robert Rubin, a New York Times columnist,
author Barack Obama,
and President Barack Obama.
Bush’s support
for amnesty was wrapped up in his Cold War image of the United States as a
“Nation of Immigrants,” not as a nation of Americans. This view is still being
pushed by Bush’s presidential center. In May 2019, Breitbart reported:
There are
no Americans in America and no history of America — just immigrants and their
“story,” says a new video by former President George W. Bush’s Bush Center.
“America’s
story is an immigrant story,” says the video. “Now as before, American is
a nation of immigrants,” says the video which refers to 280 million
Americans — including many who voted for George W. Bush in 2000 — merely as an
unnamed blob of “population,” “labor force,” “workers,” and even “natives.”
America
would be weak without immigrants, the video argues, as it declares
that “immigrants make America strong.”
In fact,
the video even describes the American children of immigrants as “immigrants” to
help minimize the impact of Americans on their own nation.
A poll shows the obvious: Voters strongly oppose the sale
of work permits to migrants by the universities' #OPT program.
They'll dislike it more when they see how OPT shoves them
& their college-grad kids out of Fortune 500 jobs & the middle
class. #H1Bhttps://t.co/LFKmMJQRzX
— Neil
Munro (@NeilMunroDC) July 13, 2020
Follow
Neil Munro on Twitter @NeilMunroDC, or
email the author at NMunro@Breitbart.com.
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