America Faces No Greater Threat Than Joe Biden and the Democrat Party. Their Assault to Our Borders Is As Great As Their Assault to Free Speech and Free Elections
Wednesday, May 4, 2022
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Immigration Is No Fix for Inflation Analysis shows cutting wages by increasing foreign workers wouldn't significantly reduce prices and would harm the poor
Washington, D.C. (May 4, 2022) – The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other lobbying groups have called for increases in immigration to reduce wages and control inflation. A new analysis by the Center for Immigration Studies estimates that even substantially reducing wages for all less-educated workers, or in the occupations where they are concentrated, would have a negligible impact on consumer prices because such workers account for only a modest share of the GDP.
“It is simply not possible to control inflation by reducing the wages of the less-educated because such workers earn so little to begin with,” said the report’s lead author, CIS Director of Research Steven Camarota. “Bringing in more foreign workers to lower the wages of workers who don’t earn much in the first place also seems grossly unfair.”
Among the findings:
Reflecting their relatively modest average compensation, all less-educated workers (those without a bachelor’s degree) account for only 25 percent of GDP. More-educated workers and capital account for the other 75 percent of the economy.
Therefore, even a substantial reduction of 10 percent in the wages of all less-educated workers would likely reduce consumer prices by only an estimated 2.5 percent, assuming all of the savings were passed on to consumers and not retained as higher profits by businesses.
It may be possible to reduce wages more by dramatically increasing the number of foreign workers in a few specific sectors of the economy. But individual lower-paid occupations account for only a tiny share of GDP. For example, construction workers are only 2.2 percent of GDP, cleaning and maintenance 1 percent, food service only 1.1 percent, and healthcare support just 0.9 percent.
Prior to Covid-19, workers have generally seen their wages decline or grow very little for more than two decades, particularly those without a bachelor’s degree. Reducing their wages by admitting more immigrants can be seen as unfair and unwise.
More than one in seven less-educated workers are currently eligible to receive cash payments from the Earned Income Tax Credit and Additional Child Tax Credit, the nation’s largest cash assistance programs for low-wage workers. Reducing the wages of such workers would undo efforts to help low-income workers.
Nearly two-thirds of all children in poverty are dependent on a worker who does not have a bachelor’s degree. Using immigration to reduce wages for less-educated workers has significant negative implications for American’s poorest children.
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Indebted U.S. college graduates would help the war against Russia by sharing their careers with imported Russian graduates, according to a funding request sent to Congress by President Joe Biden.
The funding request “would amend section 203(b)(2) of the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the requirement that Russian STEM professionals have an employer sponsor in the United States before applying for an employment-based [green card] visa,” says the April 28 the funding request.
The bill would “attract and retain Russian STEM talent and undercut Russia’s innovative potential, benefitting U.S. national security,” the document says.
The message to U.S. professionals is that “Uncle Sam wants YOU to suffer wage depression … to ensure that a larger portion of Ukraine is under the government of Kyiv but not Moscow,” responded Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for Immigration Studies.
“It’s not a vital U.S. interest whether some districts of eastern Ukraine are to be run from Moscow or Kyiv,” said Krikorian. The bloody war over districts in Eastern Ukraine, such as the Luhansk Oblast, “is the kind of ugly European power politics that our Founding Fathers wanted to keep us out,” he added.
GOP leaders will try to exclude the corporate giveaway from the spending bill, one Hill source told Breitbart News.
The Democratic majority can pass “an expensive aid package where we’re going to send defense and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine … or even to the neighboring European nations to help them absorb refugees in their country,” the source said. “But we [Republicans] will not be including immigration provisions.”
The spending request rule would allow Fortune 500 executives to hire hundreds of thousands of desperate Russian graduates for the jobs and careers that are needed by tens of millions of American graduates.
Those U.S. graduates are already being forced to compete for jobs and decent wages against the little-recognized population of roughly 1.5 million college-trained contract workers extracted from India, China, and other poor countries.
The spending request hides the breadth of foreign graduates sought by the new extraction policy under a long list of military-style technologies:
Advanced Computing, Advanced Engineering Materials, Advanced Gas Turbine Engine Technologies, Advanced Manufacturing, Advanced and Networked Sensing and Signature Management, Advanced Nuclear Energy Technologies, Advanced Particle Detector Instrumentation Technologies, Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Systems and Robotics, Biotechnologies, Communication and Networking Technologies, Cybersecurity, Directed Energy, Financial Technologies, Human-Machine Interfaces, Hypersonics, Advanced Missile Propulsion Technologies, Networked Sensors and Sensing, Quantum Information Technologies, Renewable Energy Generation and Storage, Semiconductors and Microelectronics, Space Technologies and Systems …
But the language says the invite is for Russians who “have earned a master’s or doctoral degree in the United States or an equivalent foreign degree in a field involving science, technology, engineering, or mathematics [STEM].”
But the federal definition of “STEM” is extremely broad. The definition is also being expanded to the universities which dangle U.S. work permits to help recruit fee-paying foreign students.
The federal definition for STEM includes dairy science, horticultural science, soil microbiology, veterinary anatomy, environmental studies, forestry, media, computer programming, data processing, Web Page design, Computer Support Specialist, Education/Instructional Technology, Architectural Engineering, HVAC technicians, environmental technicians, manufacturing technician, quality control technician, solar energy technician, biology, animal behavior, plant genetics, exercise physiology, ecology, statistics, financial mathematics, behavioral sciences, climate science, financial analytics, chemistry, paleontology, child psychology, archeology, medical science, environmental health, and the catch-all title of “business statistics.”
“If [the plan] were confined to PhDs in STEM fields, the numbers would be much lower,” Krikorian said:
The tell is that these proposals are never limited to PhDs. They always include master’s degree holders. Frankly, I have a master’s degree and I shouldn’t be getting any special immigration consideration from any foreign country and neither should master’s degree holders abroad … This kind of [masters degree] proposal always metastasizes into a means of importing cheap labor to undermine Americans.”
As usual, the scale of the program is unrecognized by U.S. reporters who do not recognize the federal government’s long-standing strategy of fuelling economic growth with extraction migration from poor countries.
For example, Bloomberg.com reported the extraction proposal shows the U.S. is “enticing experts in semiconductors, cybersecurity, space,” even as it also noted that “A spokesman for the National Security Council confirmed that the effort is meant to weaken Putin’s high-tech resources in the near term and undercut Russia’s innovation base over the long run — as well as benefit the U.S. economy and national security.”
“Many reporters are not going to dig into this — they’re just going to transcribe what they think is the right point of view,” said Krikorian.
Few media outlets have noticed the many millions of white-collar jobs have been transferred to legal and illegal migrants and contract workers. The jobs were transferred to the millions of H-1B, L-1, J-1, TN, or B-1/B-2 visa workers that have been imported and hired by Fortune 500 companies and their many subcontractors, or to the millions of Optional Practical Training graduates produced by U.S. universities.
That foreign inflow has pushed myriad U.S. technology professionals out of well-paying careers. A 2021 study by the Census Bureau reported:
The vast majority (62%) of college-educated workers who majored in a STEM [science, technology, engineering and math] field were employed in non-STEM fields such as non-STEM management, law, education, social work, accounting or counseling. In addition, 10% of STEM college graduates worked in STEM-related occupations such as health care.
The path to STEM jobs for non-STEM majors was narrow. Only a few STEM-related majors (7%) and non-STEM majors (6%) ultimately ended up in STEM occupations.
This year, House Democrats have voted to accelerate this white-collar outsourcing via a draft bill marketed as a bill to counter China’s government-backed companies. However, GOP leaders, including Sen. Todd Young, (R-IN), have promised to block the measure, which would deny myriad well-paying jobs to Americans in the GOP-dominated Midwest.
The mass transfer of jobs and careers to foreign graduates has coincided with the flat-lining of salaries for a wide range of U.S. college graduates.
“Most college graduates have actually seen their real incomes stagnate or even decline” since 2000, says New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. “Many of those who did manage to [graduate] found that the financial rewards were far smaller than they expected,” he said in an April 29 article that ignored immigration while urging more government spending to reduce unpaid college debt.
Krugman, however, drafted a chart showing how media white-collar wages have stagnated:
This existing displacement goes far beyond Silicon Valley or Fortune 500 jobs. For example, hospital chains have used the visa workers and immigration rules to bump at least 1 million Americans out of skilled nursing and other healthcare technician jobs. Nationwide, almost 20 million working-age men have been pushed out of the workforce by the massive inflow of low-wage migrants.
Extraction Migration
Since at least 1990, the D.C. establishment has extracted tens of millions of migrants and visa workers from poor countries to serve as legal or illegal workers, temporary workers, consumers, and renters for various U.S. investors and CEOs.
This economic strategy of Extraction Migration has no stopping point. It is brutal to ordinary Americans because it cuts their career opportunities, shrinks their salaries and wages, raises their housing costs, and has shoved at least ten million American men out of the labor force.
Extraction migration also distorts the economy and curbs Americans’ productivity, partly because it allows employers to use stoop labor instead of machines. Migration also reduces voters’ political clout, undermines employees’ workplace rights, and widens the regional wealth gaps between the Democrats’ coastal states and the Republicans’ Heartland and southern states.
An economy built on extraction migration also alienates young people and radicalizes Americans’ democratic, compromise-promoting civic culture because it allows wealthy elites to ignore despairing Americans at the bottom of society.
The policy is hidden behind a wide variety of excuses and explanations, such as the claim that the U.S. is a “Nation of Immigrants” or that Americans have a duty to accept foreign refugees. But the economic strategy also kills many migrants, exploits poor people, splits foreign families, and extracts wealth from the poor home countries.
The economic policy is backed by progressives who wish to transform the U.S. from a society governed by European-origin civic culture into a progressive-led empire of competing identity groups. “We’re trying to become the first multiracial, multi-ethnic superpower in the world,” Rep. Rohit Khanna (D-CA), told the New York Times on March 21. “It will be an extraordinary achievement … we will ultimately triumph,” he insisted.
Not surprisingly, the wealth-shifting extraction migration policy is very unpopular, according to a wide variety of polls. The polls show deep and broad public opposition to labor migration and the inflow of foreign contract workers into jobs sought by young U.S. graduates.
SOUTHMOST, Texas—The Biden administration appears to have abandoned its effort to ensure all migrants apprehended by immigration authorities are inoculated against COVID-19, just a month after the White House said vaccines would be mandatory.
According to several individuals familiar with the matter, some of whom requested anonymity to speak candidly, Border Patrol officials in the Rio Grande Valley are exempting migrants from such countries as Guatemala, Haiti, and Mexico from vaccine mandates. And migrants from Nicaragua, Cuba, and Venezuela must only receive one dose of the vaccine before they are released into the U.S. interior.
DHS in March issued a directive that some migrants in seven U.S. regions, including the Rio Grande Valley, must receive COVID-19 vaccinations or be placed into expedited deportation proceedings, the New York Times reported. That policy appears to have been scrapped—or at least modified—in favor of a voluntary vaccination program of one shot.
"It depends on the shift, to be honest," said one individual familiar with the matter. "You talk to guys who work around midnight, and they're not vaccinating anyone. It's really more of an optional policy."
A spokesman for Customs and Border Protection declined to comment.
The initial vaccination plan was widely seen as President Joe Biden's response to critics who allege his administration acted hypocritically when it implemented employer-based vaccine mandates without similar conditions for migrants who wish to enter the country. Scrapping that vaccination plan comes as DHS officials prepare for a surge in migrants following Biden's repeal of Title 42—a federal law that allows for the accelerated removal of migrants during a public health crisis—and as his Department of Justice fights in court to maintain a transportation mask mandate.
Outside the Rio Grande Valley, one Border Patrol Officer stationed in Arizona said he had never heard of any mandatory vaccination policy.
"We're getting steamrolled out here by the thousands," the officer said. "No, we are not vaccinating people."
At the Catholic Charities Humanitarian Respite Center in McAllen, Texas, hundreds of migrants from around the world pass through each day to receive health care, food, and other forms of assistance before they make their way farther into the U.S. interior. According to Sister Norma Pimentel, who runs the shelter, she works every day to persuade migrants to get the vaccine.
"The county set up a vaccination clinic right here," she told the Washington Free Beacon. "We push migrants to take it and say, ‘Look, you can't go anywhere without one.' But, you know, it's up to them really."
The Biden administration's public messaging on the issue has changed as well. Last month, the White House announced a policy expanding vaccinations of migrants of the southern border. Nowhere in that announcement, however, did the Biden administration say such vaccinations were mandatory.
"DHS has also been providing the COVID-19 vaccines to noncitizens in ICE custody since summer 2021," the announcement reads. "Beginning March 28, 2022, DHS expanded those efforts to cover migrants in CBP custody, so as to further safeguard public health and ensure the safety of border communities, the workforce, and migrants."
CBP has also not implemented COVID-19 testing policy for migrants, even though a September 2021 DHS inspector general report blasted the Biden administration for putting "its workforce, support staff, communities, and migrants at greater risk of contracting the virus." That lack of policy means the burden falls on charities, such as Pimentel's, to provide COVID-19 tests.
While left-wing activist groups such as Oxfam America have said people in Latin America "have access to vaccines," many Latin American countries have extremely low vaccination rates.
Guatemala, for example, has just over 36 percent of its population fully vaccinated, according to the vaccination tracking organization Our World in Data. The same organization found that just 1.1 percent of Haiti's population is fully vaccinated.
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