ASSULTING THE AMERICAN WORKER - THE DEMOCRAT PARTY'S NAFTA OPEN BORDERS DOCTRINE TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED - Analysis: Industries Importing Foreign H-2B Visa Workers Steal $1.8 Billion in Wages Since 2000

 

Nearly 5 Million Illegal Immigrants Crossed Border During Biden Administration

https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2022/08/20/nearly-5-million-illegal-immigrants-crossed-border-during-biden-administration/

Newt Gingrich: 'The level of dishonesty is astonishing'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2yn8p7UtvE

Analysis: Industries Importing Foreign H-2B Visa Workers Steal $1.8 Billion in Wages Since 2000

Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images

JOHN BINDER

31 Aug 20220

3:56

Employers in industries that hired most foreign H-2B visa workers for nonagricultural jobs over the last two decades have stolen about $1.8 billion in wages, a new analysis reveals.

Every year, businesses in the landscaping, conservation, meatpacking, construction, and fishing industries are allowed to import tens of thousands of foreign H-2B visa workers to take blue-collar American jobs. In recent years, the federal government has routinely increased the number of foreign H-2B visa workers allowed to enter the United States labor market.

As a result, these blue-collar industries have seen stagnant and depressed wages.

Now, a new analysis by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) reveals that the top H-2B visa industries have stolen about $1.8 billion in wages from employees from 2000 to 2021:

Data from United States Citizenship and Immigration Services shows that there were nearly 117,000 H-2B workers in 2021, and the program is projected to grow to more than 150,000 workers in 2022, a new high. [Emphasis added]

Why does that matter? Because as this growth occurs, migrant workers with H-2B visas are being employed in industries in which there is extensive wage theft and lawbreaking by employers. [Emphasis added]

Data from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) show that, in the seven major industries in which nearly all H-2B workers are employed, nearly $1.8 billion in wages was stolen from workers (which includes both U.S. and migrant workers) between 2000 and 2021. [Emphasis added]

In landscaping services, H-2B visa employers stole more than $60 million in wages from employees over the last two decades. In the construction industry, where Americans have been replaced by imported H-2B foreign visa workers, nearly $850 million in wages have been stolen by employers since 2000.

Chart via Economic Policy Institute

In meatpacking, which has become an increasingly volatile industry preferring to hire lower-wage foreign visa workers over Americans, employees have stolen more than $654 million in wages from 2000 to 2021.

Despite overwhelming evidence of fraud and abuse, President Joe Biden’s administration has repeatedly increased the number of foreign H-2B visa workers that can be imported by U.S. employers.

In July, Biden bragged about importing a “record” number of foreign visa workers to compete against working and middle class Americans for jobs.

“Last year, my administration set a record — we issued more than 300,000 H-2 visas for Mexican workers,” Biden said. “We also reached a five-year high in the visas we issued to Central Americans, and we’re on pace to double this.”

Republicans, beholden to business interests in Washington, D.C., have advocated and voted to increase the number of foreign H-2B visa workers brought to the U.S.

Last month, Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-SD) urged Biden to import more foreign H-2B visa workers to take American jobs, saying, “We need lots of them in South Dakota and we can never get enough from the administration.”

Annually, the U.S. rewards 1.2 million legal immigrants with green cards while 1.5 million foreign nationals are given temporary work visas. Millions more, every few years, arrive in the U.S. as illegal aliens in the hopes to avoid deportation and take jobs.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.

Boots on the Ground...Sept. 1st...Prepare for the long haul do not waste time or money.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8-OVOLnILc

20 Things The Middle Class Can't Afford Anymore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tExWfRVQjNs

The U.S. middle class is losing ground financially, and in today's video, we're going to expose a list of things middle-income workers can no longer afford. We're living through the most severe cost of living crisis in history, and Americans are seeing their purchasing power evaporate at a breathtaking speed. Even those who used to have some sense of financial security are now having to make some difficult choices and opt between putting food on their tables, paying utility bills, or seeking medical care. Today, middle-earners do not have the same economic stability their parents had back in the day. They continue to struggle with rising costs of education, entertainment, energy, groceries, and everyday necessities while real wage growth stagnates. With each passing month, living conditions continue to worsen for this group. Right now, millions of Americans are still struggling to afford a basic middle-class life. Nearly 51 million households don't earn enough to afford a monthly budget that includes housing, food, child care, health care, transportation, and a cell phone, according to a study released Thursday by the United Way ALICE Project. The share of middle-income Americans who say their incomes aren't keeping up with their cost of living has jumped 16 percentage points since December 2020, rising to 75% in June 2022, Primerica found. With tight budgets, middle-class families are having to cut back on their spending on name-brand items. In July alone, retail sales data shows a 28% decline in the purchase of brand name items as middle-income shoppers scramble to afford simple luxuries of life. The middle-class debt load is growing much faster than their incomes, leaving workers struggling to make ends meet each month. According to a Money-Zine analysis, "back in 1980, the consumer debt per person was $1,540, which was 7.3% of the average household income of $21,100. In 2022, consumer debt climbed to $58,604 per person, which was almost 60% of the average household income of $97,026. This means debt increased nearly 500% faster than income from 1980 through 2022." Having a financial cushion to fall back on is essential to ensure economic security, but as the cost of living soars, fewer middle-class workers can afford to put some money aside for emergencies. A Bankrate poll found that only one in seven middle-class households have at least six months of emergency savings. Over 25% of them have no emergency savings at all, and the remaining households have a small to moderate amount of savings, but not enough to cover six months of expenses. In theory, middle-class earners differ from low-income earners because they don’t live paycheck to paycheck. But in reality, over 60% of the U.S. population, or approximately, 157 million adults, are currently living in a hand-to-mouth situation. In other words, middle-class Americans are just as financially burdened as low-income Americans, with around two-thirds, or 67%, unable to cover an unexpected $400 expense. New estimates suggest that around one-quarter of the U.S. population is already spending more than ten percent of their net income on energy. People from households that exceed this ten-per cent threshold are considered to be in the "energy poor" group, experts note. Last year, less than 10% of the population faced energy poverty. But over the past 12 months, the proportion of energy poor has risen by more than fifteen percentage points. Economists observe that high energy prices no longer only burden households with low incomes. This is going to be a very bitter winter for many middle-class families out there. Large swathes of our society are already facing massive amounts of financial pain. But as global events accelerate, it's safe to say that the worst is yet to come. For more info, find us on: https://www.epiceconomist.com/ And visit: http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/

NO DEGREE OF BIDEN'S SABOTAGE OF HOMELAND SECURITY WILL INDUCE THE GOP TO BRING IMPEACHMENT. AFTER ALL, JOE BIDEN IS A CLOSET REPBULICAN.

The president of FAIR Dan Stein discussed the report, stating that ​​“Roughly the equivalent of the entire population of Ireland has illegally entered the United States in the 18 months President Biden has been in office, with many being released into American communities.”

He continued, saying “In that time, the Biden administration has blamed an unprecedented surge of illegal immigration on all sorts of external factors, except their own sabotage of our nation’s immigration laws.”