President Donald Trump’s ‘tight labor’ policies are boosting wages, but he should loosen immigration policies to supply business with more imported workers, says the Washington Post ‘s editorial board.
“The tight labor market is pushing up wages for some workers and has provided opportunities to teenagers, students, ex-convicts, long-term unemployed, the disabled and others for whom the barriers to employment once looked daunting,” the Washington Post ‘s editorial board wrote February 25. “Those are good things.”
But the Post ‘s board called for Trump to loosen the labor market by importing more workers — even though the nation’s labor market includes more than 160 million Americans, as well as 11 million underemployed Americans, and at least one million white-collar workers:
Employers have raised the alarm about acute shortages of skilled and unskilled labor up and down the wage scale — construction workers; maintenance and repair workers; truckers; firefighters; furniture-makers; nurses; home health aides; farm workers.
…
when dozens of industries warn that worker shortages are constraining growth and investment … It makes sense to recalibrate immigration policy to meet the labor market’s future demands, including by admitting more high-skilled workers.
The Post ‘s call for more “high-skilled workers” is a close match for the demands of the Washington Post ‘s corporate owner, Jeff Bezos.
Bezos’s company, Amazon, already
uses many H-1B visa workers. It is also lobbying for passage of
S.368 bill , which would quadruple the annual number of green cards offered to Indian college-graduate workers, up to roughly 100,000 a year.
The bill, pushed by Utah Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, would also dramatically increase the incentives for Indian graduates to work in the United States via the Occupational Practical Training programs. It would also provide more Indian employers for Indian illegal aliens who help cut wages for blue-collar Americans.
The Washington Post board decorated its call for federal intervention in the labor market by citing recent statements by Mick Mulvaney, Trump’s current chief of staff:
Mr. Mulvaney let slip that the United States needs more immigrants, lest severe labor shortages and anemic birth rates sap economic growth.
“We are desperate, desperate for more people,”
said Mr. Mulvaney, evidently emboldened by the 3,600 miles separating his speaking venue, where TV cameras were not in evidence, from the White House. “We are running out of people to fuel the economic growth.”
The
Post ‘s board echoes a similar call by the
Wall Street Journal for more government intervention to inflate the supply of labor. “Corporate profits have been declining as employers increase wages to hire scarce blue-collar workers … corporate profits could soon drop to historic lows, which could reduce business investment and GDP growth,” says the editorial board’s February complaint,
titled “America’s Disappearing Workers.”
Each year, the federal government inflates the labor supply — and cuts wages — by importing roughly one million legal immigrants. Those migrants compete for jobs and housing against the four million Americans who turn 18 that year.
No
Labor Shortage: 11M Americans Out of Work, but All Want Full-Time Jobs
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Olson/Getty Images
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There remain more than 11 million
Americans who are out of work but want full-time jobs, despite claims by
corporate interests and the big business lobby of a so-called “labor shortage.”
The latest unemployment data from
the Bureau of Labor Statistics reveals there is still slack in the labor market
for disenfranchised Americans to enter the workforce rather than business
bringing foreign workers to the U.S. to take jobs.
Overall, about 5.8 million Americans
are unemployed — 12.6 percent of whom are teenagers who generally seek
entry-level jobs and 5.9 percent of whom are black Americans. These nearly six
million unemployed also include about 1.2 million Americans who are considered
“long-term unemployed” because they have been out of work for more than six
months.
Another 4.1 million Americans are
working part-time jobs but want full-time employment. Additionally, 1.2 million
Americans are out of the labor force entirely after looking for a job sometime
within the last year. These marginally attached Americans are available for
work and want full-time jobs.
Roughly 277,000 of the 1.2 million
Americans out of the labor force completely are considered “discouraged
workers” because they do not believe there are jobs in the labor market for
them.
In total, about 11.1 million
Americans are either unemployed, out of the labor force, or underemployed;
however, all have said they want good-paying, full-time jobs.
The
constant cry from corporate lobbyist @USChamber and "newsplainer" @voxdotcom is that America is "running out of workers." If that were true
there wouldn't be people to come off the sidelines and take jobs.
While Americans have enjoyed
significant wage growth in Trump’s
economy for blue-collar and working-class Americans, corporate interests have
increasingly suggested that the U.S. must continue importing millions of
foreign workers every year to fill jobs.
In April 2019, former Chamber of
Commerce President Tom Donohue said the U.S. needed more
legal immigration because the country is “out of people.”
Extensive research by economists
like George Borjas and analyst Steven Camarota has found that the country’s
current legal immigration system — wherein 1.2 million mostly low-skilled
workers are admitted annually — burdens U.S. taxpayers and America’s working
and middle class while redistributing about $500 billion in wealth
every year to major employers and newly arrived immigrants.
Camarota, director of research for
the Center for Immigration Studies, has found that every one percent increase
in the immigrant composition of American workers’ occupations reduces their
weekly wages by about 0.5 percent. 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.
John Binder is a reporter for
Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder .
CBO:
Immigration Has ‘Negative Effect on Wages’
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MUNRO
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Immigration makes all of America richer, but it can make some
Americans poorer, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office says in a report
issued January 9.
“Immigration, whether legal or illegal, expands the labor force
and changes its composition, leading to increases in total economic output,”
said the non-partisan report, titled “The Foreign-Born
Population and Its Effects on the U.S. Economy and the Federal Budget—An
Overview.”
But this national expansion does “not necessarily [deliver] to
increases in output per capita,” or income per person, the report said:
For example, business leaders say the nation’s enormous
population of immigrants has expanded the nation’s workforce, increased
consumption, and driven up housing prices. But that inflow has also shrunk the
wages of less-educated Americans, the report said:
Among people with less education, a large percentage are foreign
born. Consequently, immigration has exerted downward pressure on the wages of
relatively low-skilled workers who are already in the country, regardless of
their birthplace.
The CBO report contradicts business claims that a bigger economy
ensures bigger wages for everyone.
More ominously, the report also suggests that the American
middle-class — including millions of young college graduates — may suffer a
similar economic disaster if immigration policy is shifted to raise the inflow
of foreign college graduates. The report says:
The effects of immigration on wages depend on the
characteristics of the immigrants. To the extent that newly arrived workers
have abilities similar to those of workers already in the country, immigration
would have a negative effect on wages.
Many business advocates in Washington are calling for a dramatic
increase in “high-skilled immigration” — meaning foreign college graduates who
would compete for the same jobs as American college graduates. For example,
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) is trying to pass his S.386 bill that offers the prize of
renewable work-permits — and eventual citizenship — to an unlimited number of
foreign graduates.
Each year, up to 120,000 foreign graduates — and their spouses
and children — can get green cards via their employer’s sponsorship, even as
perhaps 800,000 Americans graduate from college with skilled degrees.
But Lee’s bill creates a new legal status called “Early
Adjustment.” This status would allow an uncapped number of college graduate
migrants to apply for renewable work permits long before they can get a green
card to become a legal immigrant and citizen.
Existing law allows an uncapped number of foreigners to legally
get short-term work permits and jobs after enrolling in U.S. colleges. The
migrants can get jobs by first paying tuition to a university, and then getting
short-term work permits via the uncapped “Curricular Practical Training” and
the “Optional Practical Training” programs. These workers must leave the United
States after a few years until they enroll themselves in work permit programs.
But Lee’s bill would remove any caps on this foreign worker
population by allowing an unlimited number of foreign workers to get “Early
Adjustment” status from their employers.
DHS
posts videos of Indian migrants buying fake documents from ICE's Farmington U.
sting operation. #OPT Optional Practical Training program is an estb.-run
labor-trafficking scheme to sideline American graduates. #S386 becomes law http://bit.ly/39H2Zqh
Many migrants already use the CPT and OPT work permits to get
jobs and to also compete for entry into the H-1B visa worker program. Once in
the H-1B program — which accepts 85,000 new workers each year — many of the
migrants also ask their employers to sponsor them for green cards.
The sponsorship allows them to stay working in the United States
until they eventually get their valuable green card, long after their temporary
visas have expired. Congress has not set an annual limit on the number of visa
workers who can be sponsored for green cards, so the resident population of
permanent “temporary workers” is growing fast — and is helping to suppress
wages for American graduates.
Roughly 1.5 million foreign visa workers hold white-collar jobs
throughout the U.S. economy. This number includes at least 750,000 Indians who
are allowed to work via the supposedly temporary CPT, OPT, L-1, and H-1B visa
programs. Roughly 300,000 of these Indians — plus 300,000 family members — are
being allowed to stay in the United States because they asked their employers
to sponsor them for green cards.
The CBO report shows that immigrants comprise roughly 40 percent
of the population of people who did not graduate from high school — and
that immigrants already comprise roughly 20 percent of all people with a
“graduate degree.”
Congressional Budget Office
The 20 percent share likely would quickly rise if the Senate
approves Lee’s S.386 plan — and that rise could sharply reduce salaries for
American college graduates.
“Wage trends over the past half-century suggest that a 10
percent increase in the number of workers with a particular set of skills
probably lowers the wage of that group by at least 3 percent” as the extra
workers compete for jobs, says George Borjas, a labor economist at Harvard.
That extra labor does expand the economy — but that expansion is dwarfed by the
transfer of the wage reductions to investors, he wrote in 2016:
I estimate the current “immigration surplus”—the net increase in
the total wealth of the native population—to be about $50 billion annually. But
behind that calculation is a much larger shift from one group of Americans to
another: The total wealth redistribution from the native losers to the native
winners [mostly employers] is enormous, roughly a half-trillion dollars a year.
“In low-skilled occupations, a one percent increase in the
immigrant composition of an individual’s occupation reduces wages by [0].8
percent,” said a 1998 report by the Center for
Immigration Studies.
A 2013 CBO report predicted that the 2013
“Gang of Eight” amnesty and immigration bill would reduce the share of income
that goes to wage earners and increase the share that goes to
investors. “Because the bill would increase the rate of growth of the
labor force, average wages would be held down in the first decade after
enactment,” the CBO report said .
But all that cheap labor would boost corporate profits and spike
the stock market, the report said. “The rate of return on capital would be
higher [than on labor] under the legislation than under current law throughout
the next two decades,” says the report, titled “The Economic Impact of S. 744.”
Business leaders sometimes admit that an extra supply of workers
forces down wages. “If you have ten people for every job, you’re not going to
have a drive [up] in wages,” U.S. Chamber of Commerce CEO Tom Donohue told
Breitbart News on January 9. But “if you have five people for every ten jobs,
wages are going to go up.”
Are rising wages good
for national politics? http://bit.ly/2FwwCg7
Claims
of a Labor Shortage Are Just Not True
America's
September unemployment rate fell to 3.5 percent, the lowest level since 1969,
according to the most recent Department of Labor report .
The tight
labor market is forcing companies to hire disadvantaged Americans. For
example, New
Seasons Market , a
West Coast grocery chain, is actively recruiting people with disabilities and
prior criminal records. Similarly, Custom
Equipment , a
Wisconsin manufacturing firm, recently hired several prison inmates through a
work-release program and intends to employ them full-time upon their release.
For the
first time in decades, these disadvantaged Americans are finally winning
significant pay increases. Over the past year , the lowest-paid 25 percent of
workers enjoyed faster wage growth than their higher-paid peers.
Unfortunately,
this positive trend could be short-lived. Corporate special interests are
whining about a labor shortage -- and are spending millions to lobby for higher
levels of immigration, which would supply companies with cheap, pliable
workers.
Hardworking
Americans need their leaders in Washington to see through this influence
campaign and stand up for their interests. Scaling back immigration would
further tighten the labor market, boosting wages and helping the most
disadvantaged Americans find jobs.
The U.S.
economy is the strongest it has been in years. Employers added 136,000 new jobs
in September , marking 108 months of consecutive
job growth.
But
there's still more progress to be made. Approximately 6
million Americans
are currently looking for jobs but remain unemployed. Another 4
million desire
full-time positions but are underemployed as part-time workers. Millions
more , feeling
discouraged about their bleak prospects, have abandoned the job search
altogether. Indeed, among 18 through 65-year-olds, 55
million people
aren't working.
Many of
these folks have limited or outdated skills. Others have criminal records or
disabilities. So they might require a bit more training than traditional job
applicants.
Rather
than put in this extra effort, some big businesses want to eliminate their
recruiting challenges by importing cheap foreign workers. These firms have
instructed their lobbyists to push for more immigration, which would introduce
more slack into the labor market.
The CEO
of the Chamber of Commerce recently claimed that America needs a massive
increase in immigration because we're "out of people." Chamber
officials said their lobbying efforts would center on sizeable increases to
rates of legal immigration.
The
National Association of Manufacturers, meanwhile, recently released a proposal which would effectively double
the number of H-1B tech worker visas, import more seasonal low-skilled laborers
on H-2A and H-2B visas, and grant amnesty to illegal immigrants.
And the agriculture
industry is lobbying for a path to legalization for
illegal laborers and is seeking to expand "temporary" guest-worker
programs to include stable, year-round positions on dairy farms and meatpacking
plants -- jobs that Americans will happily fill for the right wage. The
Association of Builders and Contractors, Koch Industries, and dozens more
companies have called for similar measures.
There are
already 45
million immigrants
in the United States -- 28 million of which are employed -- and counting. More
than 650,000
people crossed
into the United States illegally in the past eight months alone, already
exceeding last fiscal year's totals. And the U.S. government grants an
additional 1 million lifetime work permits to immigrants every year.
Those
figures will skyrocket even higher if business groups get their way. Such an
expansion would hurt hardworking Americans.
The
majority of foreigners who cross the border illegally or arrive on guest worker
visas lack substantial education. Naturally, they seek out less-skilled jobs in
construction, manufacturing, agriculture, and service -- and directly compete
with the most economically vulnerable Americans. The labor surplus created by
immigration depresses the wages of native-born high school dropouts up to $1,500 each year.
Several
proposals under consideration in Washington could alleviate American workers'
woes.
A
recent bill from Senator Chuck Grassley
(R-IA) would mandate all businesses use a free, online system called E-Verify,
which determines an individual's work eligibility in mere seconds.
The
system would make it extremely difficult for employers to hire illegal
immigrants, roughly 40
percent of whom
have been paid subminimum wages at some point. Without a pool of easily abused
illegal laborers, businesses would raise pay for Americans.
Several
senators also recently introduced the Raise
Act , a bill that
would reduce future levels of legal immigration.
It's time
for our leaders in Washington to scale back both legal and illegal immigration.
By doing so, they can further tighten the labor market and force businesses to
bring less-advantaged Americans back into the workforce.
OPEN BORDERS: IT’S ALL ABOUT KEEPING WAGES
DEPRESSED!
"In the decade following the
financial crisis of 2007-2008, the capitalist class has delivered powerful
blows to the social position of the working class. As a result, the working
class in the US, the world’s “richest country,” faces levels of economic
hardship not seen since the 1930s."
"Inequality has reached unprecedented
levels: the wealth of America’s three richest people now equals the net
worth of the poorest half of the US population."
PELOSI,
FEINSTEIN, KAMALA HARRIS AND GAVIN NEWOMS’S MEXIFORNIA
Report:
California’s Middle-Class Wages Rise by 1 Percent in 40 Years
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Middle-class wages in
progressive California have risen by 1 percent in the last 40 years, says a
study by the establishment California Budget and Policy Center.
“Earnings for California’s
workers at the low end and middle of the wage scale have generally declined or
stagnated for decades,” says the report, titled “California’s Workers Are
Increasingly Locked Out of the State’s Prosperity.” The report continued:
In
2018, the median hourly earnings for workers ages 25 to 64 was $21.79, just 1%
higher than in 1979, after adjusting for inflation ($21.50, in 2018 dollars)
(Figure 1). Inflation-adjusted hourly earnings for low-wage workers, those at the
10th percentile, increased only slightly more, by 4%, from $10.71 in 1979
to $11.12 in 2018.
The report admits that the
state’s progressive economy is delivering more to investors and less to
wage-earners. “Since 2001, the share of state private-sector [annual new
income] that has gone to worker compensation has fallen by 5.6 percentage
points — from 52.9% to 47.3%.”
In 2016, California’s Gross
Domestic Product was $2.6 trillion, so the 5.6 percent drop shifted $146
billion away from wages. That is roughly $3,625 per person in 2016.
The report notes that wages
finally exceeded 1979 levels around 2017, and it splits the credit between the
Democrats’ minimum-wage boosts and President Donald Trump’s go-go economy.
The 40 years of flat wages are
partly hidden by a wave of new products and services. They include almost-free
entertainment and information on the Internet, cheap imported coffee in
supermarkets, and reliable, low-pollution autos in garages.
But the impact of California’s
flat wages is made worse by California’s rising housing costs, the report says,
even though it also ignores the rent-spiking impact of the establishment’s
pro-immigration policies:
In just the last decade
alone, the increase in the typical household’s rent far outpaced the rise in
the typical full-time worker’s annual earnings, suggesting that working
families and individuals are finding it increasingly difficult to make ends
meet. In fact, the basic cost of living in many parts of the state is more
than many single individuals or families can expect to earn, even if all adults
are working full-time.
…
Specifically, inflation-adjusted
median household rent rose by 16% between 2006 and 2017, while
inflation-adjusted median annual earnings for individuals working at least 35
hours per week and 50 weeks per year rose by just 2%, according to a Budget
Center analysis of US Census Bureau, American Community Survey data.
The wage and housing problems are made worse —
especially for families — by the loss of
employment benefits as companies and investors spike stock prices by cutting
costs. The report says:
Many workers are being paid
little more today than workers were in 1979 even as worker productivity has
risen. Fewer employees have access to retirement plans sponsored by their
employers, leaving individual workers on their own to stretch limited dollars
and resources to plan how they’ll spend their later years affording the high
cost of living and health care in California. And as union representation has
declined, most workers today cannot negotiate collectively for better working
conditions, higher pay, and benefits, such as retirement and health care, like
their parents and grandparents did. On top of all this, workers who take on
contingent and independent work (often referred to as “gig work”), which in
many cases appears to be motivated by the need to supplement their primary job
or fill gaps in their employment, are rarely granted the same rights and legal
protections as traditional employees.
The center’s report tries to
blame the four-decade stretch of flat wages on the declining clout of unions.
But unions’ decline was impacted by the bipartisan elites’ policy of
mass-migration and imposed diversity.
In
2018, Breitbart reported how Progressives for
Immigration Reform interviewed Blaine Taylor, a union carpenter, about the
economic impact of migration:
TAYLOR: If I hired a framer to do
a small addition [in 1988], his wage would have been $45 an hour. That was
the minimum for a framing contractor, a good carpenter. For a helper, it was
about $25 an hour, for a master who could run a complete job, it was about $45
an hour. That was the going wage for plumbers as well. His helpers typically
got $25 an hour.
…
Now, the average wage in Los
Angeles for construction workers is less than $11 an hour. They can’t go lower
than the minimum wage. And much of that, if they’re not being paid by the hour
at less than $11 an hour, they’re being paid per piece — per piece of plywood
that’s installed, per piece of drywall that’s installed. Now, the subcontractor
can circumvent paying them as an hourly wage and are now being paid by 1099,
which means that no taxes are being taken out. [Emphasis added]
Diversity
also damaged the unions by shredding California’s civic solidarity. In 2007,
the progressive Southern Poverty Law Center posted a report with the title
“Latino Gang Members in Southern California are Terrorizing and Killing
Blacks.” In the same year, an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times described another murder by Latino
gangs as “a manifestation of an increasingly common trend: Latino ethnic
cleansing of African Americans from multiracial neighborhoods.”
The center’s board members
include the executive director of the state’s SEIU union, a professor from the
Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and
the research director at the “Program for Environmental and Regional Equity” at
the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
Outside
California, President Donald Trump’s low-immigration policies are pressuring
employers to raise Americans’ wages in a hot economy. The Wall Street Journal reported August 29:
Overall, median weekly earnings
rose 5% from the fourth quarter of 2017 to the same quarter in 2018, according
to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. For workers between the ages of 25 and 34,
that increase was 7.6%.
Free
Trader Paul Krugman Admits Failure of Globalization for American Workers:
‘Major Mistake’
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Economist
Paul Krugman, the longtime defender of global free trade and a member of the
failed “Never Trump” movement, now admits that globalization has failed
American workers.
In a column for Bloomberg
Krugman writes:
In the past few years, however,
worries about globalization have shot back to the top of the agenda , partly due to new research and partly due to the political
shocks of Brexit and U.S. President Donald Trump. And as one of the
people who helped shape the 1990s consensus — that the contribution of rising
trade to rising inequality was real but modest — it seems appropriate for me to
ask now what we missed . [Emphasis added]
…
The pro-globalization consensus of
the 1990s , which concluded that trade contributed little
to rising inequality, relied on models that asked how the growth of
trade had affected the incomes of broad classes of workers, such as those who
didn’t go to college . It’s possible, and probably even correct, to think of
these models as accurate in the long run. Consensus economists didn’t
turn much to analytic methods that focus on workers in particular industries
and communities , which would have given a better picture of short-run
trends. This was, I now believe, a major mistake — one in which I
shared a hand . [Emphasis added]
Krugman, though, writes that he and
his fellow free trade economists “had no way to know” that globalization of the
American economy or a surge in trade deficits “were going to happen,” though
the anti-globalization movement had warned for years of the harmful impact free
trade would have on U.S. workers — including Donald Trump.
In an interview with SiriusXM
Patriot’s Breitbart News
Tonight Alan Tonelson said that
Krugman’s acknowledging that he and the free trade economic consensus has been
wrong is “better later than never,” but “the damage has already been done.”
LISTEN :
“There’s been an even more
startling, in fact jaw-dropping, development on that front. Paul Krugman, the
famous Never Trumper, the famous pro-free trade economist, the Nobel Prize
winner just published an article … saying that for the past 20 years, he and
his other globalist, free trade economist friends have been substantially wrong
about the effect of globalization, particularly more trade with low income, low
wage countries like China,” Tonelson said.
“They’ve been substantially wrong
about its effects on the American economy and American workers in particular,”
Tonelson said.
Meanwhile, decades of free trade
have spurred mass layoffs, unemployment, and offshoring of high-paying American
jobs while surging trade deficits. Since China entered the World Trade
Organization (WTO), the U.S. trade deficit with China has eliminated at least 3.5
million American jobs from the American economy. Millions of American workers
in all 50 states have been displaced from their
jobs, which have been lost due to U.S.-China trade relations.
John
Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder .
Bernie
Sanders: ‘Of Course’ Cheap Illegal Workers Drive Down U.S. Wages
Andrew Harnik/AP Photo
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) admits cheaper illegal alien workers
drive down wages for America’s working and middle class but continues to
support amnesty for illegal aliens, decriminalization of the United
States-Mexico border, and throwing out President Trump’s “Buy American, Hire
American” executive order.
Sanders navigated through the issue
during an interview with the New
York Times admitted that opening the U.S. border is detrimental to the
nation-state and has slammed the concept
of hemispheric open borders.
During the exchange, Sanders says “of course” cheaper illegal
alien workers hired by businesses at “$5 an hour” will “lower wages” for
America’s working class, who are often looking for entry-level jobs.
“Yeah, if you’re being paid $5 — if you’re being paid $5 an
hour, now of course it’s going to lower wages,” Sanders said. “Why would I hire
at a higher wage?”
Later in the interview, though, Sanders backs away from
immigration’s wage-suppression impact on Americans and focuses on a $15 minimum
wage — suggesting that illegal aliens be legalized and paid the same wage as
Americans.
“All I am saying is that if for whatever reason, I’m paying you
$5 an hour, okay,” Sanders said. “You don’t think that’s going to lower the
wages that she gets?”
Legal immigration levels, where 1.2
million mostly low-skilled legal immigrants and hundreds of thousands of
foreign visa workers are admitted to the country annually, have driven the
number of foreign born workers in the U.S. to its highest level since 1996 . This is in
addition to the hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens who enter the country
every year.
Most immigrants to the U.S.
immediately begin competing for blue-collar and white-collar jobs against millions of Americans who
want full-time employment.
Extensive research by economists
like George Borjas and analyst Steven Camarota reveals that the country’s current
mass legal immigration system burdens U.S. taxpayers and America’s working and
middle class while redistributing about $500 billion in wealth
every year to major employers and newly arrived immigrants. Similarly, research
has revealed how Americans’ wages are crushed by the
country’s high immigration levels.
For every one percent increase in the immigrant portion of
American workers’ occupations, their weekly wages are cut by about 0.5 percent,
Camarota finds. This means the average native-born American worker today has
his weekly wages reduced by perhaps 8.75 percent since 17.5 percent of the
workforce is foreign born.
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.
John
Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder .
Bernie:
On Day One, Executive Order to Reverse Trump’s Border Actions
Sen. Bernie
Sanders (I-VT) said at the Democrat debate in Miami on Thursday that on his
first day in office if he is elected president, he would issue an executive
order to reverse everything President Donald Trump has done to secure the
border and end the flood of illegal immigration that the government has said
could amount to more than one million migrants
entering the United States in 2019.
“On Day One, we take out our
executive order pen and rescind every damn issue that Trump has done,” Sanders
said.
“What we have got to do on Day One
is invite the presidents and the leadership of Central and Mexico together,”
Sanders said. “This is a hemispheric problem.”
Under President Donald Trump, the
U.S. State Department and Mexico have been working with Central American
countries to provide support, including financial aid, to address problems that
are blamed for people fleeing Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala.
Trump has also been able to gain
cooperation with Mexico to step up efforts to police its
southern border to stop the flow of hundreds of thousands of migrants who have
been flooding across the U.S. border with Mexico.
Bernie Sanders Delights Democrats With
Plan For Free Healthcare For Illegals
Bernie
Sanders, that socialist curmudgeon we love to hate, has
come up with a new way to smother American prosperity: FREE healthcare
for illegal aliens.
As has
become expected in these neo-socialist times, Democrats were delighted by the
proposition of robbing hardworking Americans for the benefit of those who
break federal laws .
But when
Bastard Bernie says FREE, what does that mean? Redistribution of wealth via
taxation, of course. Take monies from the rightful owner by force and
intimidation and give it to the wrongful owner. What does Bastard Bernie get
out of it? Power and control over the unethical transaction. That power, the
ability to say who keeps what is the ultimate control; for no one can control
their own destiny, only Bastard Bernie and the other glorified thieves in power
control each American's destiny when they take your money. The more that he
takes from you, the more power he has over you, and the less you control your
own life. This is precisely why taxation amounts to economic slavery.
Bernie
Sanders understands better than anyone, that the one who controls the money is
the one who controls freedom and destiny. If Bastard Bernie doesn't take your
earnings from you, then you maintain power and control over your life and your
destiny. If, on the other hand, he takes what you earned, then you and your
labor belong to the state. When Bastard Bernie hands your cash to illegals, he
simultaneously hands them control over your life. This is exactly what Bastard
Bernie wants: to dilute your control over your own destiny. Bernie now also
wants to give illegal immigrants power over you.
This
diabolical plan for the diminution of Americans isn't restricted to Bastard
Bernie; he is joined by the other democrat neo-socialists like Elizabeth
Warren, Cory Booker, and Kirstin Gillibrand. They call their politics by
various names in an attempt to convolute and conceal the simplistic socialism
that drives their agenda. Don't get lost in the words they use; just look at
what they are plotting. They advocate for increased taxation, redistribution,
and government control over your life. Bernie Sander's bill "Medicare for
All" was co-sponsored by these con-artists, and their control effort would
cost you an estimated $32 trillion. Nice people.
More
harrowingly, the neo-democrats prioritize the interests of illegal immigrants
over the basic needs of the Americans who they are sworn to represent. But why
are illegal immigrants of particular interest all of a sudden?
On the
one hand, because democrats prey on weakness or the appearance of weakness, and
illegal immigrants are the perceptively weak concern du jour that
strikes the Democrats' fancy. That's it; there's not much more or less to it.
On the whole, Democrats are not deeply concerned with the plight of an illegal
immigrant; they are just using these people to advance their political agenda
amongst their bleeding-heart base. Remember how the Democrats were vividly
trying to save the whales in the '90s? Whatever happened to the whales? Who's
saving them nowadays? Maybe they went the way of the ozone hole that was all the craze in the
'80s. Do you ever wonder what the illegal immigrants were doing in the '80s and
'90s when the ozone and the whales were the weaklings du jour ?
Donald
Trump is the reason why illegals became the attraction of the day, as they are
the group he is attempting to regulate, rendering them weaklings du
jour for Democrats. Had Trump decided to build a barrier to keep dangerous
sharks away from U.S. beaches, then "Save The Sharks!" would have
been the prime democratic platform. Anything anti-trump is magically and
automatically converted into pro-democrats. This how the gays and Islamists
came to political joinder in the same party; they call
this "intersectionality."
On the
other hand, because Democrats are clawing at well walls, trying to find a way
out of the deep loss to Donald Trump. They need more bodies, more votes. It's a
bid to stay in power. Aside from attempting to entice illegals with free
healthcare, they are also attempting to give illegals the right to vote,
followed by attempting to change the American voting system to be a rule
by majority , which they would easily get if illegals can vote for the hand
that feeds them. It's all about power, about control. It's about eroding
America and capitalism.
Think
about the Democrats' plan from the perspective of a would-be illegal border
crosser. The proposition that those who break U.S. laws will be rewarded with
admiration and riches in the form of Spoils of Taxation, is a rather attractive
bargain. Why not break the border law? You will receive free lawyers , free food, free shelter, free
healthcare, free legal advice from a local Sanctuary Sheriff,
and unfettered admiration by the neo-socialist clique growing in the United
States. Seems too good to pass up, no?
Neo-socialism
is a lucrative invitation for the illegal bypass of American laws.
India’s Illegal Population Spikes in U.S.
STR/AFP via Getty Images
6:02
The population of illegal migrants from India has jumped to 619,000, up almost 70 percent from 2010 to 2018, according to a report in the New York Times .
The population estimate comes from the pro-migration group the Center for Migration Studies (CMS), which is expected to release a report Wednesday, February 26.
The report estimates that the overall illegal population in the United States is dropping as migrants return to their home countries, amid President Donald Trump’s enforcement of immigration laws.
New data that will be released on Wednesday by the Center for Migration Studies shows there were 10.6 million immigrants living unlawfully in the United States in 2018 compared with 11.75 million in 2010, a decline propelled primarily by Mexicans returning south.
…
The population of unauthorized Mexicans in the United States declined by a quarter between 2010 and 2018, the new immigration figures show, amid stepped-up deportations and an improved Mexican economy that has encouraged many people to go home voluntarily.
And Mexicans, the largest foreign-born population in the United States, are not the only nationality electing to leave. The undocumented population from South Korea has dropped by 22 percent, and Poland’s has plummeted more than 50 percent — returning to countries that have enjoyed economic prosperity.
However, many other illegals are no longer counted as illegals because they manage to get green cards and citizenship via the routine “Adjustment of Status” process.
The CMS study also downplays the annual number of “anchor babies” and the several hundred thousand migrants from Central America. Those migrants were allowed into the country during 2018 and 2019 via “catch and release” rules, even though most of them will lose their claims for asylum. So far, few have been deported.
Other organizations estimate a much larger population of illegals. For example, in September 2019, a
report by the Federation for American Immigration Reform estimated that roughly 14.3 million illegal aliens are living across the United States.
The CMS study also discounts the huge economic impact of legal immigration, which shifts much wealth from central states to coastal states, from young people to old people, and from wage-earners to stock investors.
The CMS study’s warning about the Indian illegal population complements a June 2019 report by the Pew Research Center that said India is now the
leading source of legal migrants into the United States:
More than 1 million immigrants arrive in the U.S. each year. In 2017, the top country of origin for new immigrants coming into the U.S. was India, with 126,000 people, followed by Mexico (124,000), China (121,000) and Cuba (41,000).
The fast-growing Indian illegal population is largely employed by the fast-growing population of legal Indian visa workers, which now stands at roughly one million.
Those contract workers have their own spouses and family members of at least 350,000 people, and they tend to shop at Indian-owned stories that often employ the illegals.
The expanding flow of Indian legal and illegal migrants spotlights the vast population of poor young Indians and also the Indian government’s economic strategy of exporting workers to other countries, including the United States.
India’s population is so huge that India has roughly
178 million young men aged 20 to 34. That number is more than one young Indian male for every two Americans in the entire U.S. population of 329 million.
In 2019, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
deported just 1,616 Indians, up from 611 deportations in 2018, according to a January report by the
Times of India . ICE also detained 8,447 Indian migrants, up from 2,306 in 2014.
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The flow of legal and illegal Indian migrants will likely accelerate if the S.386 bill pushed by Utah’s GOP establishment becomes law.
The bill would quadruple the annual number of green cards offered to Indians, up to roughly
100,000 a year . The bill would dramatically increase the incentives for Indian graduates to work in the United States via the Occupational Practical Training programs and would provide more Indian employers for Indian illegals.
India’s government supports the S.368 bill, partly because government officials want to maximize the number of Indians working abroad. The Indian news site, DeccanHerald.com
reported February 26:
The most important foundations of this special friendship between India and America are our people-to-people relations,” [Primie Minister Narendra] Modi said as he and Trump addressed media-persons after a meeting at Hyderabad House in New Delhi.
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“Be it, professionals or students, Indian Diaspora in America has been the biggest contributor to this (growth of India-US relations),” Prime Minister said on Tuesday, adding: “These ambassadors of India are not only contributing to the economy of the United States with their talent and hard work. Rather, they are also enriching American society with their democratic values and rich culture.”
The S.368 bill is being pushed by Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) under
intense pressure from Utah’s business establishment.
Exclusive–Mo
Brooks: ‘Masters of the Universe’ Want More Immigration to ‘Decrease Incomes of
Americans’
Bob Gathany / AL.com via AP
3:19
Rep. Mo Brooks
(R-AL) says the “Masters of the Universe” want more legal immigration to the
United States to further diminish the incomes of American working and
middle-class families.
In an exclusive interview with SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Tonight , Brooks said
recent demands to increase the number of foreign workers coming to the U.S. to
compete against American citizens for jobs is merely an effort by corporations
to deplete the earnings of Americans.
Brooks said:
I’m not a part of the Masters of the Universe crowd who thinks we
ought to be bringing in all this foreign labor and the reason for it is pure economics. This is the chance for Americans and lawful immigrants who are already here who are working
in the blue-collar trades, who are working in the places where
wages are not as high they ought to be, this is their chance to prosper . [Emphasis added]
And to the extent you import a lot of foreign labor, then you are
artificially increasing the labor supply which in turn means that you’re
artificially suppressing the wages of American families who are often hard-pressed to make ends meet So I
respectfully disagree that we need more foreign labor, to the contrary, I would like to see us reduce the foreign labor that comes into
America so that American families who are struggling to make ends meet , particularly those of us who are earning the least
amounts, would be better to take care of their own families and less likely
to be dependent on the welfare . [Emphasis added]
Brooks said Democrats support for mass legal immigration is
centered on the premise that increasing the number of foreign workers in the
U.S. will decrease Americans’ wages, thus forcing many into poverty and
becoming welfare recipients. This, Brooks said, is how Democrats create a
permanent dependent class of Democrat voters.
“Don’t get me wrong, [Democrats] want to decrease the incomes of
Americans so that they’re dependent on welfare,” Brooks said.
That makes them in turn likely Democrat voters and the best way to
do that is to have a huge surge in the labor supply, particularly illegal
aliens, that will depress their wages therefore creating more Democrats who are dependent on welfare at the same time as they
bring in illegal aliens who also under Democrat doctrine will be allowed to
vote and those types of voters, they’re also dependent on welfare. [Emphasis
added]
“About 70 percent of illegal alien households are on welfare …
plus this is a bloc of voters that seems unusually susceptible to the racial
divisions that the Democrats advance,” Brooks said. “You have to look at the
big picture in all of this, and to me, we should not be importing as much
foreign labor as we are. We should be helping the least among us earn more and
importing foreign labor that suppresses wages is not the way to do that.”
Currently, the U.S. admits more than 1.2 legal immigrants
annually, with the vast majority deriving from chain migration, whereby newly
naturalized citizens can bring an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the
country. In 2017, the foreign-born population reached a record high of 44.5 million.
The U.S. is on track to import about 15 million new foreign-born voters in the next
two decades should current legal immigration levels continue. Those 15
million new foreign-born voters include about eight million who will arrive in
the country through chain migration, where newly naturalized citizens can bring
an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the country.
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John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on
Twitter at @JxhnBinder .
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