Trump Abandons ‘America First’ Reforms: ‘We Need’ More
Immigration to Grow Business Profits
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Ahead
of the 2020 presidential election, President Trump is abandoning his prior
“America First” legal immigration reforms to support increases of legal
immigration levels in order to expand profits for businesses and corporations.
For the fourth time in about a month, Trump suggested
increasing legal immigration levels. With Apple CEO Tim Cook sitting next to
him at the White House on Wednesday, Trump said he not only wanted more legal
immigration but that companies needed an expansion of new arrivals to grow
their business.
“We’re going to have a lot of people coming into the country. We
want a lot of people coming in. And we need it,” Trump said:
It’s not a question of do we want [more immigration], these folks are going to
have to sort of not expand too much. And if we tell them … these are very
ambitious people around this table. They don’t like the concept of not
expanding. We want to have the companies grow and the
only way they’re going to grow is if we give them the workers and
the only way we’re going to have the workers is to do exactly what we’re doing.
[Emphasis added]
The comments are a direct
rebuttal of the president’s commitments in 2015, 2016,
and 2017, where he vowed to reduce overall legal
immigration levels to boost the wages of U.S. workers and reduce the
displacement of America’s working and middle class.
In 2017, for instance, Trump touted Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) and
Sen. David Perdue’s (R-GA) RAISE Act legislation, which would have cut legal
immigration down to about 500,000 arrivals a year rather than the current
admission of more than one million legal immigrants annually who compete
against working-class Americans for jobs.
Trump, at the time, said legal immigration levels needed to be
trimmed to “reduce poverty, increase wages, and save taxpayers billions and
billions of dollars,” arguing that the current importation of more than a
million legal immigrants every year “has placed substantial pressure on
American workers, taxpayers, and community resources.”
“Among those hit the hardest in recent years have been
immigrants, and very importantly, minority workers competing for jobs against
brand new arrivals,” Trump said in 2017 of current legal immigration levels.
“And it has not been fair to our people, to our citizens, to our workers.”
NumbersUSA’s Rosemary
Jenks said Trump supporters must remind the White House of the commitment that
the president made on the campaign trail when it comes to legal immigration
reforms.
“We need to remember all of the promises that candidate Trump
made on immigration. Which included, most importantly, putting
Americans first,” Jenks told Breitbart News.
“I would certainly hope, that in order to keep his campaign
promises that before even talking about expanding legal immigration, he would
work with employers to recruit the 50 million working-age Americans who are
outside the labor market,” Jenks said. “Or work with these companies to hire
laid-off GM workers. They’re Americans, they should come first.”
Trump’s newfound support for
increasing legal immigration levels has become part of his stump speech on the
issue, repeating the same sentiment most recently at the
Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).
There, Trump said the country needs more foreign workers to help
corporations.
“We need an immigration policy that’s going to be great for our
corporations and our great companies … we need workers to come in but
they’ve got to come in legally and they’ve got to come in through merit,” Trump
said.
Trump’s shift in legal
immigration views has coincided with the White House giving accessto a myriad of globalist
business groups, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the George W. Bush
Center, and a number of libertarian organizations funded by the pro-mass
immigration billionaire Koch brothers.
Spokespeople for the Chamber of Commerce,
LULAC, George W. Bush Center, and Koch Industries dominate the immigration
talks in White House currently. breitbart.com/politics/2019/…
Globalist Business Groups Dominate Immigration Talks at
White House
Increasing
legal immigration beyond their already historically high levels would crush the wage and job gains that Trump’s
“Hire American” economy has made possible thus far. Nationwide, wages rose
3.0 percent in 2018. For Americans who switched jobs, wages rose by 4.6 percent
and by 5.2 percent in Minnesota where few migrant workers choose to live.
Though unemployment has
remained low, there continues to be at least 13 million working-age Americans who are
either unemployed, not in the labor force but want a job, or who are working
part-time jobs but want a good-paying full-time job.
“Increasing immigration is the one thing that can wipe out all
the wage gains, all the employment gains for those blue collar workers who
switched parties to vote for him,” Jenks said. “I hope someone in the White
House has his interest in mind who is telling him this.”
Out of those 13 million Americans who are available for U.S.
jobs, about 6.5 million are unemployed. Of those unemployed, close to 13
percent are American teenagers who are ready for entry-level U.S. jobs — the
exact jobs that low-skilled foreign workers generally tend to take.
About 1.6 million Americans are not in the labor force at all,
but they want a job, including about 426,000 discouraged American workers who
are demoralized by their job prospects. Also, there are 5.1 million Americans
who are working part-time jobs but who want full-time jobs. More than 1.4
million of these U.S. part-time workers said they had looked for full-time jobs
but could not find any.
Mass immigration, whether legal or illegal, puts downward
pressure on Americans’ wages, researchers have repeatedly noted.
Every one percent increase in the immigrant composition of an
American workers’ occupation reduces their weekly wages by about 0.5 percent,
researcher Steven Camarotta has found. This means the average native-born
American worker today has their weekly wages reduced by perhaps 8.5 percent
because of current legal immigration levels.
In a
state like Florida, where immigrants make up about 25.4 percent of the labor
force, American workers have their weekly wages reduced by perhaps more than
12.5 percent. In California, where immigrants make up 34 percent of the labor
force, American workers’ weekly wages are reduced by potentially 17 percent.
Likewise, every one percent increase in the immigrant
composition of low-skilled U.S. occupations reduces wages by about 0.8 percent.
Should 15 percent of low-skilled jobs be held by foreign-born workers, it would
reduce the wages of native-born American workers by perhaps 12 percent.
The mass importation of legal
immigrants — mostly due to President George H.W. Bush’s Immigration Act of
1990, which expanded legal immigration levels —
diminishes job opportunities for the roughly four million young American
graduates who enter the workforce every year wanting good-paying jobs.
In the last decade alone, the
U.S. admitted ten million legal immigrants, forcing
American workers to compete against a growing population of low-wage foreign
workers. Meanwhile, if legal immigration continues, there will be 69 million foreign-born residents living in
the U.S. by 2060. This would represent an unprecedented electoral gain for the
Left, as Democrats win about 90 percent of congressional
districts where the foreign-born population exceeds the national average.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on
Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
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This new bill emerges as the White House deploys Trump's Democrat son-in-law Jared Kushner to negotiate new Amnesty legislation with Amnesty backing groups such as the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, US Chamber of Commerce, George W. Bush Center, Soros backed LULAC, and Koch Brothers front groups like Libre Initiative, Americans for Prosperity, and The Heritage Foundation.
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Washington Post: Border Rush May Hit 100,000 Migrants in March
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The cross-border migrant inflow may reach 100,000 people in March, according to the Washington Post.
“The number of migrants taken into custody last year jumped 39 percent from February to March, and a similar increase this month would push levels to 100,000 detentions or more,” the Washington Post reported March 4. The paper continued:
U.S. court restrictions on the government’s ability to keep children in immigration jails — and the sheer volume of people arriving — have left Homeland Security agencies [on the border] defaulting increasingly to the overflow model Trump deplores as “catch-and-release.”
An inflow of 100,000 per month brings migration up towards the levels encouraged by former President George W. Bush before his economic bubble and 2008 crash.
The establishment’s open borders welcome is extracting wealth and political stability from Central American countries. Poor farmers and workers are mortgaging their homes and land to fund their travel to get the government-arranged “catch-and-release” welcome which is being offered to migrants who bring their children.
The Washington Post reported:
[Dionel] Martinez said he paid 30,000 Guatemalan quetzals, about $2,500, to a “coyote” smuggling guide. It was a cheap rate, but it meant that he and his son traveled through Mexico in trucks, like cargo.Across rural Guatemala, Martinez said, word has spread that those who travel with a child can expect to be released from U.S. custody. Smugglers were offering two-for-one pricing, knowing they just needed to deliver clients to the border — not across it — for an easy surrender to U.S. agents.
President Donald Trump’s effort to stop illegal migration has been blocked by judges eager to preserve catch-and-release policies set under President Barack Obama, by progressives who are eager to invite the world’s poor into Americans’ homeland, and by business-first Republicans who are eager to aid business and to avoid conflict with Democrats.
Trump initially pushed the cross-border flow down to 16,000 in April 2017. But the migrants — aided by the coyotes, cartels, and American immigration lawyers — have learned how to exploit the catch-and-release rules, which have been created for their benefit by Congress and the courts.
At every turn, this establishment alliance has blocked Trump’s efforts to close the loophole, deter migrants, build a wall, quickly process migrants’ asylum claims, deter stealth crossings, and bargain for political compromises.,
The establishment’s opposition to border protections provides extra cheap wage-cutting workers, imports more revenue-boosting consumers, transports more mothers onto U.S. soil, and busses more children into blue-collar schools, regardless of costs, crime and casualties.
The rising population of migrants also provides the establishment with more political chits they can play to minimize future border curbs, and also to prevent Trump from pushing his lower immigration/higher wage Four Pillars reform plan.
That reform plan was blocked in 2018 after Trump lost his political leverage by agreeing to sign a tax cut before signing an immigration reform. His appointees hide whenever his pro-American reform message needs to be declared before cameras and Congress.
Now the establishment pressure is turning Trump away from his 2016 mandate for pro-American immigration reform.
He is echoing business’s demand for “merit” immigration of foreign college graduates, partly because his “Hire American” policy is successfully pressuring employers to raise voters’ wages and to invest in American-made, productivity-boosting machinery.
“We need an immigration policy that’s going to be great for our corporations and our great companies,” Trump said at the March 3 CPAC convention. “Now, we want people to come in, we need workers to come in, but they’ve got to come in legally and they’ve got to come in through merit.”
Amid the border rush, Trump’s lawyers are still trying to overcome the 2015 Flores catch-and-release court decision, to quickly repatriate border crosses, and to quickly process asylum claims. Officials are still gradually extending the “Remain in Mexico” plan, which requires asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico until their claims are heard by judges, but that plan’s potential can be blocked by Mexican officials and California judges.
Central and South Americans include tens of millions of rational young men and women who know the border is being held open by Democrats and Republicans, judges and employers.
In the United States free-market economy, any inflow of foreign workers — either legal or illegal, either permanent or temporary – cuts Americas’ jobs and wages, and also transfers the lost wages to CEOs and investors.
This federal policy of using legal and illegal migration to boost economic growth shifts enormous wealth from young employees towards older investors by flooding the market with cheap white-collar and blue-collar foreign labor.
That annual inflow of roughly one million legal immigrants — as well as the population of two million visa workers and eight million working illegal immigrants — spikes profits and Wall Street values by shrinking salaries for 150 million blue-collar and white-collar employees, especially the wages earned by the four million young Americans who join the labor force each year.
The federal government’s cheap labor policy widens wealth gaps, reduces high tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, hurts kids’ schools and college education, pushes Americans away from high-tech careers, and sidelines millions of marginalized Americans, including many who are now struggling with fentanyl addictions.
Immigration also steers investment and wealth away from towns in Heartland states because coastal investors can more easily hire and supervise the large immigrant populations who prefer to live in coastal cities. In turn, that coastal investment flow drives up coastal real estate prices and pushes poor Americans, including Latinos and blacks, out of prosperous cities such as Berkeley and Oakland.
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