Many polls show that labor migration is deeply unpopular because it damages ordinary Americans’ career opportunities, cuts their wages, and raises their rents. Migration also curbs Americans’ productivity, shrinks their political clout, widens regional wealth gaps, radicalizes their democratic, compromise-promoting civic culture, and allows elites to ignore despairing Americans at the bottom of society.
Majority of Americans Don’t Believe Biden’s Claim That ‘Build Back’ Fights Inflation
Most Americans are not buying the Biden administration’s claims that its Build Back Better social welfare spending bill will combat inflation, a poll released Thursday
Fifty-one percent of Americans say they are pessimistic that the bill would reduce inflation, an NPR/Marist poll showed. Just 35 percent say they are optimistic, with 15 percent undecided.
President Biden has repeatedly claimed that passing the $1.85 trillion Build Back package of tax breaks and spending programs, including a massive tax break for owners of expensive homes in high tax states, would help relieve inflationary pressures. Biden has touted a letter from 17 Nobel Prize-winning economists who indicated that the bill could “ease long-term inflationary pressures.”
The American public, however, is unconvinced. The primary concern is not over long-term inflationary pressures. Over the longterm, inflation is already expected to ease thanks to many of the same factors that kept inflation ultralow in the years following the financial crisis. The concerns about high and accelerating inflation are over the deterioration of household buying power and the rise in the cost of living in the near and medium-term.
Americans may also be turning a skeptical eye at the claim because it seems so opportunistic. The bill was being touted on completely different grounds before inflation became a major political headache for the Biden administration. And now that inflation is seen as the number one economic problem, the Biden administration announces the programs it was already pushing for will also fight inflation.
A few weeks ago, White House press secretary Jen Psaki falsely claimed that no economists were projecting the bill would add to inflation.
“[N]o economist out there is projecting that this will have a negative impact on inflation. And actually, what it will help do is it will help increase economic productivity. It will help economic growth in this country. That, and the Build Back Better Agenda will help reduce inflation, will help cut costs for the American people over the long term,” Psaki said during a press briefing.
In fact, many economists think the Build Back Better bill will add to inflation in the near term, with any deflationary pressure arising far off into the future, if ever. At a panel last month sponsored by the National Association for Business Economics, three economists—White House favorite Mark Zandi at Moody’s Analytics, Douglas Holtz-Eakin of the American Action Forum and Harvard University professor Doug Elmendorf—said that passing the bill would add to inflation next year, although they disagreed about how much inflationary pressures would increase. That’s largely because much of the spending and tax-breaks front-loaded, while the tax hikes and possibly supply chain relief would take years to kick in.
Republicans are expectedly very downbeat about the prospects that the bill will fight inflation, with 76 percent in the pessimistic column. But a majority of independents—55 percent—say they are pessimistic. Only 56 percent of Democrats say they are optimistic, with 26 percent saying they are pessimistic and 19 percent saying they are unsure.
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Pro-Amnesty Democrats Threaten Senate Referee’s Authority
Some Democratic Senators are threatening to override the Senate’s debate referee, amid signals that the referee has decided to exclude the Democrats’ parole amnesty from the $1.7 trillion Build Back Better spending plan.
The Los Angeles Times reported December 8:
Senate Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.), a longtime proponent of immigration reform, said he would support overruling the parliamentarian if she rules against their latest proposal.
“I’d vote for that,” Durbin said in a brief interview. “I hope it doesn’t come to that.”
Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA), the successful son of illegal migrants, also suggested he would try to overrule the Senate’s parliamentarian:
“Whatever it takes to get this done,” he said. “For Democrats as a whole, I think as time goes on, as negotiations continue, it’s increasingly clear how important and urgent this is.”
The parliamentarian is expected to decide this week if the Democrats’ amnesty plan is too much of a policy change to be included in a bill that is being processed via the fast-track, no-filibuster “reconciliation” process.
The Democrats are using the reconciliation bill to push their migration expansion plans because they do not have the needed 60 votes needed to overcome the Senate’s minority-protection filibuster rules.
The amnesty proposal would provide at least 6.5 million illegals with a 10-year parole status, including work permits.
But it is not clear if the Democrats can override the parliamentarian.
The Senate’s filibuster rules protect the clout of Senators from small states, and so several Democratic Senators are quietly defending the authority of the parliamentarian to enforce those rules, a Senate source told Breitbart News.
The most prominent supporter of the parliamentarian is likely Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), who has repeatedly said he would not support an override of the parliamentarian.
“It gets complicated,” Durbin told the Los Angeles Times. “There are a lot of different vectors that you can use in this debate, and I expect to see them all.”
The parole amnesty is being packaged with three other changes that would accelerate the inflow of chain migration, distribute a few hundred thousand extra green cards to migrants imported by U.S. companies, and widen the already-huge pipeline of foreign graduates into the careers needed by U.S. graduates.
“If they lose the parole piece [because of the parliamentarian’s decision], do they keep the green card giveaway in there?” a Hill staffer told Breitbart News. “It would be really bad politics for them to not get their amnesty but be giving this big green card giveaway to businesses.”
“It would be the height of irony that all of our efforts on immigration would be to help business and not help people who are undocumented,” Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), told Bloomberg News.
But the Democrats’ real intentions are difficult to gauge. For example, even if they quietly decide to accept the parliamentarian’s decision, they likely would also stage an insincere P.R. campaign against the parliamentarian to help soften the blow to their supporters and donors.
The Fortune 500’s lobbyists say they will keep going back to the parliamentarian until she says yes to one of their cheap-labor proposals. “Just remember this process is iterative,” said a December 1 tweet from Alida Garcia, a top lobbyist at Mark and Priscilla Zuckerberg’s pro-migration group, FWD.us. “What comes back is refined clarity on what next step is – not the beginning or end.”
The parliamentarian has already shot down two Democratic amnesty plans inserted into the reconciliation bill.
Many polls show that labor migration is deeply unpopular because it damages ordinary Americans’ career opportunities, cuts their wages, and raises their rents.
Migration also curbs Americans’ productivity, shrinks their political clout, widens regional wealth gaps, radicalizes their democratic, compromise-promoting civic culture, and allows elites to ignore despairing Americans at the bottom of society.
For many years, a wide variety of pollsters have shown deep and broad opposition to labor migration and the inflow of temporary contract workers into jobs sought by young U.S. graduates.
This opposition is multiracial, cross-sex, non-racist, class-based, bipartisan, rational, persistent, and recognizes the solidarity Americans owe to each other.
Great Resignation: Quits Remain Near Record High
Americans quit their jobs in extremely high numbers in October, data from the Labor Department showed Wednesday.
The total number of workers who quit their jobs in October was 4.2 million, the third-highest on record. The record high was the previous month, when 4.4 million quit. In August, 4.3 million Americans quit jobs.
The figures come from the Labor Department’s monthly Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey. Quits are defined as a worker voluntarily leaving a job. These have been at historically elevated levels since this summer.
Economists are not quite sure why the high quits phenomenon, which has been dubbed the Great Resignation, is taking place. Competition for workers among employers has heated up, making it easier for a worker to quit with confidence that a better job awaits. Some Americans may also be leaving jobs that require vaccinations or masks or are perceived as posing a higher risk of Covid-infection.
Quits in accommodation and food services fell to 803,000, from 838,000 a month earlier. This is the third-highest level of quits for this sector. The record high was hit in August at 867,000. Six percent of workers in the sector quit their jobs in October, the fourth-highest rate on record and nearly two percentage points above the long-term average.
Job openings continued to climb even while hiring remained flat. Openings rose by 431,000 to 11 million, a record high. Openings in restaurants and hotels rose by 254,000 to 1.6 million, the second-highest on record after 1.7 million.
Hires were more or less unchanged at 6.5 million.
The unusually high level of quits may contribute to the renewed sense of urgency among Fed officials to tighten monetary policy. It indicates that the labor market remains tight and could contribute to higher inflation. The high level of quits could also exacerbate shortages in the economy and supply chain problems.
The merger spotlights the close alliance between the stock-market investors who fund advocacy for mass migration, and the hourly-rate professionals who facilitate the population transfer, responded Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for Immigration Studies.
Big Tech CEOs Beg Biden: Let Silicon Valley Outsource More American Jobs
Executives for the largest multinational tech corporations are lobbying President Joe Biden to expand legal immigration levels so they can outsource more American jobs as a fix to the so-called “talent shortage” in the United States.
Silicon Valley, California, executives with the group TechNet issued a report this month in which they call on the Biden administration to “increase high-skilled immigration across the country,” which means increasing the number of foreign workers available to corporations.
The executives claim there are not enough “high-skilled” Americans to take jobs in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields even as hundreds of thousands of American graduates enter the workforce every year while American professionals hunt for high-paying STEM jobs.
Rather than pulling Americans off the sidelines of the labor market, the executives write that Biden ought to open more foreign worker pipelines to corporations, specifically with the often abused H-1B visa program:
Immigration reform is crucial to America’s greater economy, especially as it pertains to the technology sector, an industry that employs a vast plurality of high-skilled immigrants. However, H-1B visa guidelines have not changed in 14 years, despite an exponential increase in the size and scope of the tech industry. [Emphasis added]
For years, Breitbart News has chronicled the abuses against American workers as a result of the H-1B visa program.
There are about 650,000 H-1B visa foreign workers in the U.S. at any given moment. Americans are often laid off in the process and forced to train their foreign replacements, as highlighted by Breitbart News.
The executives note their support for a massive green card giveaway scheme, passed in the House in 2019 by 140 Republicans and 224 House Democrats, which would have rewarded the biggest tech corporations for decades of outsourcing American jobs to foreign H-1B visa workers.
The green card giveaway, executives write, should be a “starting point” for Congress to expand legal immigration levels overall:
The bill aimed to increase the per-country cap for family-based immigrant visas and eliminate the per-country cap on employment-based visas, but it ultimately failed as there were issues with reconciling multiple versions of the bill. President Biden’s U.S. Citizenship Actof 2021 includes similar provisions in the larger bill. While the entirety of his immigration agenda may lack bipartisan appeal, eliminating the cap on employment-based visas remains a realistic, important goal and represents a starting point from which bipartisan efforts can work to encourage increased high-skilled immigration. [Emphasis added]
Rep. John Curtis (R-UT) issued a statement in support of TechNet’s wishes to increase legal immigration levels for the benefit of tech corporations, also claiming that there are not enough Americans with high-skilled talents.
“We must work to fix our broken immigration system and connect workers with industries most in need across the country,” Curtis said. “Fixing the talent shortage that exists will help businesses expand and compete globally.”
Curtis was one of the House Republicans who voted for the green card giveaway in 2019.
The push by executives with TechNet comes as Biden and Democrats are hoping to provide Silicon Valley with an unlimited stream of foreign workers, with whom American professionals would be forced to compete, as part of their “Build Back Better Act.”
The plan would allow corporations to utilize an expanded foreign worker pipeline through the employment-based green card system even as hundreds of thousands of American professionals and graduates seek out STEM jobs.
Breitbart News has reviewed lobbying records that detail the lobbying campaign on the part of corporate giants like Amazon, Facebook, Intuit Inc, AT&T, Verizon, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Alphabet, Deloitte, the Microsoft Corporation, IBM, Accenture, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, and the Intel Corporation — all of whom would benefit significantly from the expanded foreign worker pipeline.
The corporations, as listed, file thousands of petitions to the federal government every year to secure employment-based green cards for their foreign visa workers who, more often than not, arrive in the U.S. through the H-1B visa program.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
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