Chip Somodevilla/Getty
5:27
The White
House is dropping a longtime initiative of President Trump’s that reduces
overall legal immigration levels to increase U.S. wages, a senior
administration official tells the media.
Throughout 2015 , 2016 , and 2017 , Trump routinely touted his plans to reduce the number of legal
immigrants who arrive in the U.S. on a myriad of visas. Since the 1990s, when
it was expanded by President George H.W. Bush, legal annual immigration
levels have remained at historic highs with about 1.2 million nationals legally
admitted every year.
For example, since 1980, the number of legal immigrants admitted
to the U.S. every year has not dipped below 525,000 admissions. Since 1999,
annual legal immigration levels have not dropped below 645,000 admissions and
since 2004, the average number of legal immigrants admitted every year has not
dipped below a million admissions.
Trump often touted the need for reducing legal immigration
levels to “reduce poverty, increase wages, and save taxpayers billions and
billions of dollars” in 2017, 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.”
Trump said of the current legal immigration system:
Among those hit the hardest in recent years have been
immigrants, and very importantly, minority workers competing for jobs against
brand new arrivals . And it has not been fair to our people, to our citizens, to
our workers. [Emphasis added]
An immigration plan by the White House, with only preliminary
details available, does not seek to reduce any forms of legal immigration to
the country, a senior administration official told the Washington Post and The Hill .
“A senior administration official told reporters after the
meeting that the president had approved the effort to overhaul America’s
immigration system and increase border security last week and that it should
now be considered ‘the President Trump plan,'” the Post reported. “…
under the plan, the same number of immigrants would be permitted to enter the
country, but the composition would change.”
Senator David Perdue (R-GA) — who attended a meeting with Trump
on Tuesday — confirmed to Breitbart News these details of the White House plan.
“While this is still in the preliminary stage, the president has
proposed maintaining the 1.1 million legal immigrants we bring in each year but
changing the mix to respond to the needs of our growing economy and workforce,”
Perdue told the media following the meeting.
Instead, the plan shifts the way in which the U.S. admits the
more than 1.2 million legal immigrants it accepts every year.
During an interview with Time
Magazine last month, senior adviser Jared Kushner said Trump’s
focus for reforming the national immigration system centers on protecting
Americans’ wages.
“We have a lot of objectives … Number one, he wants to protect
American wages,” Kushner said.
High levels of immigration, illegal and legal, puts downward
pressure on U.S. wages while redistributing about $500
billion in wealth away from America’s
working and middle class and towards employers and new arrivals, research by
the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has found.
Economist George Borjas has detailed how the country’s working
class, those without a high school diploma, have been primarily hurt by the
annual admission of more than a million mostly low-skilled foreign nationals.
“The typical high school dropout earns about $25,000 annually,”
Borjas wrote for Politico in October 2016. “According to census data,
immigrants admitted in the past two decades lacking a high school diploma have
increased the size of the low-skilled workforce by roughly 25 percent. As a
result, the earnings of this particularly vulnerable group dropped by between
$800 and $1,500 each year.”
Center for Immigration Studies Director of Research Steven Camarota
has discovered similar wage depression trends.
For every one-percent increase in the immigrant portion of
American workers’ occupations reduces their weekly wages by about 0.5 percent,
Camarota finds. This means the average native-born American worker today has
his 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
about 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 portion 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.
At current legal immigration rates, about one-in-six U.S. residents will have been born outside of the country by
2060, the Census Bureau has found. The foreign-born population in the U.S. is
expected to reach 69 million in the next four decades.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on
Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
Corporate tax cuts haven’t
resulted in the kind of investment that could drive a breakthrough. President
Trump hasn’t followed through on promises of infrastructure spending — which,
done right, could make the whole economy work better. And his immigration
policies have not been conducive to bringing in highly skilled foreigners.
“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.”
Cheating Our Way to 4 Percent Growth
Adding more people certainly adds to
total GDP, but it’s something of a statistical “cheat” because almost all of
the gains go to the immigrants themselves . Since
GDP is such a common measure of the nation’s economic health, most Americans
expect that a higher GDP means the unemployment rate is going down and their
incomes are going up. For example, Fox News recently described a 1 percent gain in GDP as
“about $500 per American.” But expanding the population through immigration has
little overall effect on the incomes of the people already here. Total GDP will
always increase with population growth, but per
capita GDP is much more stubborn.
Although the distinction between
gains to GDP and gains to natives seems like a simple one, the media are
frequently confused by it. CNN once warned that the Cotton-Perdue RAISE
Act — which would reduce immigration over the long term by eliminating chain
migration — would lead to “4.6 million lost jobs by the year 2040.” The claim
is tautological. It simply restates the fact that a smaller population will
have a smaller number of workers than a larger population. It implies nothing
about the effect of the RAISE Act on Americans.
If the president does attempt to sell immigration-inflated GDP
numbers as proof of prosperity, I suspect ordinary Americans will not buy it.
The working-class voters who elected him are bound to notice that their own
financial situations don’t match the rosy economic numbers. They may end up
feeling even more left behind than they do now.
Enjoy that raise. This might be as good as
it gets
By MARK
WHITEHOUSE
U.S. workers have finally been seeing some decent raises in recent
months, after suffering through nearly a decade of meager wage gains. Unfortunately for them, this might be as
good as it gets.
The behavior of wages has long been a central mystery of the U.S.
labor market. Even as employers kept hiring and the unemployment rate fell to
multidecade lows, the demand for workers failed to translate into higher pay.
For most of the period starting in 2010 and ending in 2013, wage growth hovered
below 2%.
Lately, though, things have started to move. Year-over-year growth
in average hourly earnings reached 3.4% in February, roughly matching the pace
that prevailed ahead of the last recession, before retreating a bit to 3.2% in
March.
In terms of actual dollars, average weekly pay now ranges from a
low of $357 for those in leisure and hospitality and $500 for retail workers up
to $1,553 for utility employees, $1,366 for miners and loggers, and $1,013 for
finance workers on the high end.
Could wages accelerate further? It wouldn’t be unreasonable to
expect some payback after all those years of relative stagnation. Yet
considering one of the most important contributors to wage growth — workers’
productivity — it doesn’t seem likely to be all that big.
In the longer run, two factors determine how much employers can
and should pay. One is inflation: Wages must keep pace with prices lest workers
end up worse off. The other is productivity: The more employees produce each
hour, the more companies can afford to pay them.
The sum of the two — inflation plus productivity growth — sets a
sort of limit on how fast pay can increase without causing economic problems.
So what’s the limit? As of December, the Federal Reserve’s
preferred measure of inflation, at 1.95%, was very close to the central bank’s
target of 2%. It could go a little higher, but a lot would be undesirable and
attract a justified response from the Fed.
Meanwhile, productivity growth remained pretty slow, up just 1.77%
from a year earlier. Altogether, that adds up to about 3.7% — a low ceiling
that wage growth was already close to hitting.
In other words, greater gains in workers’ living standards will
require faster productivity growth. To some extent, higher wages might provide
a boost of their own. Beyond that, though, it’s hard to see where the growth
will come from.
Corporate tax cuts haven’t
resulted in the kind of investment that could drive a breakthrough. President
Trump hasn’t followed through on promises of infrastructure spending — which,
done right, could make the whole economy work better. And his immigration
policies have not been conducive to bringing in highly skilled foreigners.
That leaves workers to hope for a miracle. It could happen, but
don’t count on it.
Mark
Whitehouse writes a column for Bloomberg.
"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." JOHN BINDER
"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."
Trump Abandons ‘America First’ Reforms: ‘We Need’ More
Immigration to Grow Business Profits
7:16
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
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 access to 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.
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.
Trump’s DHS Extends ‘Temporary’
Amnesty for 300K Foreign Nationals
2:42
President Donald
Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is
extending a temporary amnesty status for more than 300,000 foreign nationals, a
notice from the agency states.
I n an
announcement on Thursday, Nielsen said DHS would not only continue to comply
Sudanese
nationals have had their TPS extended since 1997, while Nicaraguans have
enjoyed TPS since 1998. Likewise, El Salvador’s nationals have had TPS since
about 2001, and Haitians have had their TPS renewed since about 2010.
Trump
sought to end TPS for the more than 300,000 foreign resident population in the
U.S., prompting a lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Now,
though, Nielsen’s decision to extend TPS will allow the foreign nationals to
stay in the country until at least January 2020, a reversal of the
administration’s initial plan.
About
200,000 of the nationals protected by TPS in the latest DHS decision are from
El Salvador, while another 50,000 are from Haiti. The remaining more than
50,000 nationals are from Sudan and Nicaragua.
TPS
has become a quasi-amnesty for otherwise illegal aliens created under the
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1990 (INA) that prevents the deportation of
foreign nationals from countries that have suffered through famine, war, or
natural disasters. Since the Clinton administration, TPS has been transformed
into a de facto
Pro-American
immigration reformers like former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach
have argued that the TPS program has been abused by the
open borders lobby and DHS officials.
At
the beginning of 2020, DHS will announce whether the agency will once again
renew TPS for the more than 300,000 foreign nationals or terminate their
status.
John Binder is a reporter for
Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder .
*
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.”
*
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.
*
Mark Zuckerberg’s Silicon Valley investors
are uniting with the Koch network’s consumer and industrial investors to demand
a huge DACA amnesty
*
A handful of Republican and Democrat
lawmakers are continuing to tout a plan that gives amnesty to nearly a million
illegal aliens in exchange for some amount of funding for President Trump’s
proposed border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
"The
amnesty activist also said that the “border has been a crooked proposition from
the beginning, and it will continue to be twisted to meet political ends,”
adding that many open-borders activists still insist that “people didn’t cross
the border, the border crossed them.”
*
“At some
point we will have to accept the fact that the border between Mexico and the
United States is nothing more than an invention. It was demarcated in 1848,
following a war that cost Mexico about half its territory (it’s no coincidence
that cities like Los Angeles, San Antonio and San Francisco have Spanish
names),” Ramos said. “Also, it’s been said a thousand times that many people
didn’t cross the border, the border crossed them. And the cultural and
commercial ties between the two sides remain in place to this day. Look at the
fellowship exhibited by cities like El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
even if barbed wire and concrete barriers have been erected in some places
along the divide.” LA RAZA SUPREMACIST JORGE RAMOS
*
1. What
nation occupied the land for 300 years on which Mexicans now live?
ANSWERS:
1. Spain
ANN COULTER: WILL THE GLOBALIST DEMOCRAT
PARTY FOR BANKSTERS AND BILLIONAIRES DESTROY AMERICA?
I would also go to all of the working class that are in America,
construction workers in particular . Their salaries
have not just stagnated, they have gone down in the last 20 years. These are the least among us. We are the only ones not speaking
out of self-interest
Most of the people who are
advocating for open borders … they have a vested in interest in having either the cheap labor or the
Democratic voters They get the cheap maids, the cheap nannies,
and then they strut around like they’re Martin Luther King
No, you are
talking in your self-interest, Chamber of Commerce, and Koch brothers, and
Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer
The heroin problem in this
country is 100 percent a problem of not having a wall on the border. And 70,000
Americans are dying every year . That’s more that
died in the entire Vietnam War. That is a national emergency
“Sessions
is the only one doing something about illegal immigration!” Ann Coulter… AND
THAT IS WHY TRUMP FIRED HIM!
THE MOVE TO MAKE AG JEFF SESSIONS
PRESIDENT is denounced by the Narco state of Mexico which relies on the
wholesale looting of America.
ANN COULTER EXPOSES
TRUMP’S “WALL” HOAX
In fact, Trump is steadily moving in the precise opposite
direction of what he promised.
Illegal immigration is on track to hit the highest levels in
more than
a decade, and Trump has willfully decided to keep amnesty
advocates
Jared, Ivanka, Mick Mulvaney, Marc Short, and
Mercedes Schlapp in the White
House. For all his talk about
immigration, did he ever consider hiring people
who share his
MAGA vision?
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