Coronavirus Crisis: Trump Extends Closure of U.S. Borders to Migration
President Trump is extending the closure of the United States’ northern and southern borders to migration and non-essential travel, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced on Monday.
A month ago, Trump administration officials announced that the U.S. would be closing off its southern and northern borders for all non-essential travel to stop the spread of the Chinese coronavirus.
For an additional 30 days, the Trump administration will keep the closures in place. Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf said in a statement:
In close collaboration, the US, Mexico, and Canada have each agreed to extend restrictions on non-essential travel across their shared borders for 30 additional days. As President Trump stated last week, border control, travel restrictions and other limitations remain critical to slowing the spread and allowing the phased opening of the country.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) order has allowed the U.S. to suspend entry at its land borders to foreign nationals who have no proper travel documentation, cannot verify their identity, or have no medical documentation. These foreign nationals are being immediately deported.
Earlier this month, federal immigration officials revealed that the CDC order gave Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents the ability to swiftly deport nearly 400 migrant children in a couple of weeks.
Federal immigration officials, as of April 7, have deported nearly 7,000 total migrants to Mexico since March 20 when the CDC order took effect, according to sources who spoke to Reuters.
Data from Guatemalan officials have shown how critical quick deportations are to stop the spread of the coronavirus in the U.S. On deportation flights, Guatemalan officials have said that about 50 to 75 percent of all migrants deported from the U.S. to Guatemala have tested positive for coronavirus.
For more than a month, leading voices in conservative circles have pleaded with the Trump administration to issue a pause on immigration — a plan that is supported by nearly 80 percent of American adults and which has historical precedent dating back to the Great Depression.
Such a pause to immigration would come after four decades of the U.S. admitting 525,000 to 1.8 million legal immigrants annually. The U.S., at current legal immigration levels, admits more legal immigrants than any other country in the world and has done so for more than two decades.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
White House Petition: Stop Work Visas for 2020
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The U.S. government should stop the inflow of foreign visa-workers for the rest of 2020, says an April 17 petition on the White House’s website.
“50 Million Americans are unemployed, Please halt employment Visas for this year,” says the petition, which needs 100,000 signatures by May 17 to force a response from the White House.
The petition may prove popular, in part, because opinions polls have shown the public strongly objects to companies hiring foreign workers before American employees. An August 2017 poll reported 68 percent of Americans oppose companies’ use of H-1Bs to outsource U.S.-based jobs that could be held by Americans.
A growing number of advocates — perhaps with the tacit approval of the White House — are calling for a temporary halt in the visa programs. For example, Congress should only lend recovery funds to companies which employer Americans, said Gene Nelson, a technology professional who has been repeatedly displaced by H-1B visa workers. “Hire American citizens only,” he said.
The calls came before Trump announced Monday night that he would temporarily suspend immigration. A New York Times report said the suspension would include the foreign visa-workers
In light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as well as the need to protect the jobs of our GREAT American Citizens, I will be signing an Executive Order to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 21, 2020
Trump’s tweet got 174,000 retweets by 1.20 am.
But U.S. and Indian business groups have been working for several weeks to restart the wage-cutting visa programs, despite the loss of roughly 20 million jobs.
“Congress should act and renew these visas/status/benefits because DHS won’t and this is a crisis,” said a tweet from Todd Schulte, director of FWD.us. The group was founded by wealthy West Coast investors, including Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates, to help pass the 2013 “Gang of Eight” cheap labor and amnesty law.
In March, a group of GOP Senators shut down a Democratic push to automatically extend the visas of all foreign workers.
Nationwide, Congress allows companies and investors to employ a population of roughly 1.5 million white-collar foreign workers in jobs needed by American graduates. The number includes roughly 1 million Indian graduates and 270,000 Chinese graduates. This huge population includes roughly 900,000 people with H-1B visas and at least 200,000 graduates with “Optional Practical Training” work permits.
The U.S. also provides visas or work permits to at least one million blue-collar workers, most of whom are Latino.
Any increase in the population of visa workers is a double benefit for companies and investors: The illegal workers reduce each company’s payroll costs and inflate each company’s sales.
But any increased supply of labor and consumers is a household problem for the roughly 150 million Americans who make their living from wages and salaries. The additional foreign workers cut their salaries and wages, raise their rents, housing prices, and commutes, and often reduce the education resources going to their kids.
The White House petition was created by “M.J.” on April 17. The site does not reveal the identity of the author, or the identity of people who sign the petition. The text says:
1) H1B Visa is meant to only fill the employment gaps when Citizens are not available, it is never meant to replace Americans with H1B Visa employees for low wages.
2) Salary for non-immigrant workers is stagnant for almost 30 years now, every country including India give incentive to buy Indian products by imposing higher tax on foreign products, but we are giving tax payer money to the companies for hiring foreign OPT Visa employees.
3) We are a capitalist country; a lottery will only help immigration attorneys who work for bigger corporations to game the system, replace H1B Lottery with H1B Bidding, make minimum H1B salary twice the salary of a US Citizen doing the same job and shorten duration of every visa to one year.
The petition requires individuals to open an account at the White House website. The instructions say:
Once the petition reaches the required threshold, it will be put in a queue to be reviewed by the White House. Others can still sign the petition while it is awaiting a response. When the White House responds, everyone who has signed the petition will get email from the White House to let you know that we’ve reviewed and responded to the petition.
Libertarian-minded leader of Turning Point USA goes with the mainstream, urges Pres. Trump to suspend all visa-worker programs until US gradates regain jobs.
FWIW, this could be a WH-backed test of voter support for the plan in the 2020 election.#H1B https://t.co/Yo1c08iffh
— Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) April 11, 2020
NYT Says Trump’s Immigration Suspension Includes Visa Workers
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The U.S. government should stop the inflow of foreign visa-workers for the rest of 2020, says an April 17 petition on the White House’s website.
“50 Million Americans are unemployed, Please halt employment Visas for this year,” says the petition, which needs 100,000 signatures by May 17 to force a response from the White House.
The petition may prove popular, in part, because opinions polls have shown the public strongly objects to companies hiring foreign workers before American employees. An August 2017 poll reported 68 percent of Americans oppose companies’ use of H-1Bs to outsource U.S.-based jobs that could be held by Americans.
A growing number of advocates — perhaps with the tacit approval of the White House — are calling for a temporary halt in the visa programs. For example, Congress should only lend recovery funds to companies which employer Americans, said Gene Nelson, a technology professional who has been repeatedly displaced by H-1B visa workers. “Hire American citizens only,” he said.
The calls came before Trump announced Monday night that he would temporarily suspend immigration. A New York Times report said the suspension would include the foreign visa-workers
In light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as well as the need to protect the jobs of our GREAT American Citizens, I will be signing an Executive Order to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 21, 2020
Trump’s tweet got 174,000 retweets by 1.20 am.
But U.S. and Indian business groups have been working for several weeks to restart the wage-cutting visa programs, despite the loss of roughly 20 million jobs.
“Congress should act and renew these visas/status/benefits because DHS won’t and this is a crisis,” said a tweet from Todd Schulte, director of FWD.us. The group was founded by wealthy West Coast investors, including Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates, to help pass the 2013 “Gang of Eight” cheap labor and amnesty law.
In March, a group of GOP Senators shut down a Democratic push to automatically extend the visas of all foreign workers.
Nationwide, Congress allows companies and investors to employ a population of roughly 1.5 million white-collar foreign workers in jobs needed by American graduates. The number includes roughly 1 million Indian graduates and 270,000 Chinese graduates. This huge population includes roughly 900,000 people with H-1B visas and at least 200,000 graduates with “Optional Practical Training” work permits.
The U.S. also provides visas or work permits to at least one million blue-collar workers, most of whom are Latino.
Any increase in the population of visa workers is a double benefit for companies and investors: The illegal workers reduce each company’s payroll costs and inflate each company’s sales.
But any increased supply of labor and consumers is a household problem for the roughly 150 million Americans who make their living from wages and salaries. The additional foreign workers cut their salaries and wages, raise their rents, housing prices, and commutes, and often reduce the education resources going to their kids.
The White House petition was created by “M.J.” on April 17. The site does not reveal the identity of the author, or the identity of people who sign the petition. The text says:
1) H1B Visa is meant to only fill the employment gaps when Citizens are not available, it is never meant to replace Americans with H1B Visa employees for low wages.2) Salary for non-immigrant workers is stagnant for almost 30 years now, every country including India give incentive to buy Indian products by imposing higher tax on foreign products, but we are giving tax payer money to the companies for hiring foreign OPT Visa employees.3) We are a capitalist country; a lottery will only help immigration attorneys who work for bigger corporations to game the system, replace H1B Lottery with H1B Bidding, make minimum H1B salary twice the salary of a US Citizen doing the same job and shorten duration of every visa to one year.
The petition requires individuals to open an account at the White House website. The instructions say:
Once the petition reaches the required threshold, it will be put in a queue to be reviewed by the White House. Others can still sign the petition while it is awaiting a response. When the White House responds, everyone who has signed the petition will get email from the White House to let you know that we’ve reviewed and responded to the petition.
Libertarian-minded leader of Turning Point USA goes with the mainstream, urges Pres. Trump to suspend all visa-worker programs until US gradates regain jobs.
FWIW, this could be a WH-backed test of voter support for the plan in the 2020 election.#H1B https://t.co/Yo1c08iffh— Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) April 11, 2020
NYT Says Trump’s Immigration Suspension Includes Visa Workers
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President Donald Trump’s temporary suspension of the immigrant inflow includes the routine inflow of non-immigrant visa workers, according to the New York Times.
“A formal order temporarily barring the provision of new green cards and work visas could come as early as the next few days, according to several people familiar with the plan,” said the NYT report, posted early Tuesday morning.
The report continued:
Under such an executive order, the Trump administration would no longer approve any applications from foreigners to live and work in the United States for an undetermined period of time, effectively shutting down the legal immigration system in the same way the president has long advocated closing the borders to illegal immigration.…Workers who have for years received visas to perform specialized jobs in the United States would also be denied permission to arrive, though some workers in some industries deemed critical could be exempted from the ban, the people familiar with the president’s discussion said.
In light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as well as the need to protect the jobs of our GREAT American Citizens, I will be signing an Executive Order to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 21, 2020
The plan is likely to exempt the roughly 4,000 foreign doctors who are scheduled to arrive by June via the J-1 visa program, plus the large blocs of 200,000+ H-2A farmworkers who are already scheduled for myriad farm tasks, and some family reunifications.
But the suspension likely will cover the many college starter-level jobs held by many Indian and Chinese graduates in the H-1B program.
The suspension of the H-1B program would block the agency processing of the roughly 100,000 new H-1B workers who are expected to take U.S. jobs after October 1.
But many more H-1B jobs could be opened to U.S. graduates if the government does not help U.S. and Indian companies keep their laid-off H-1B workers in the United States.
Roughly 900,000 foreigners hold U.S. jobs through the H-1B program. Many are being laid-off from their outsourcing jobs in the economic crash. Under federal law, any laid-off H-1Bs must go home in 60 days unless the Labor Department helps U.S. and Indian companies rewrite the rubber-stamped “Labor Condition Application” documents which fix the workers’ work locations, hours and wages.
Similarly, the immigration suspension may also hit the Occupational Practical Training program, which is already stalled because the work-permit requests are stalled by agency closures. Roughly 200,000 foreign graduates get jobs via the OPT program each, including many thousands of jobs at elite U.S. companies, such as Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Intel.
Many other white collar visa programs could be stalled by the suspension, including the L-1 program for company transfers, and the B-1 visa to allow foreign workers to visit but not work. The suspension may also hit the “Curricular Practical Training” program that allows foreign students to hold full-time jobs.
Nationwide, U.S. companies employ roughly 1.5 million foreign contract workers in white collar jobs sought by U.S. graduates.
In 2019, U.S. companies also employed at least one million foreign workers in blue collar jobs. This ‘work permit workforce’ includes at least 200,000 H-2A farmworkers, at least 100,000 H-2B laborers, roughly 500,000 people who got work permits via 2020 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals amnesty plus hundreds of thousands of asylum applicants and green card applicants.
The visa workers and work permit workers are legal workers with a limited set of legal and workplace rights. They have a legal status somewhere between the one million legal immigrants who arrive each year, and the semi-hidden population of at least eight million illegal migrants with jobs.
The Trump plan is likely popular among the people who will vote in 2020. Breitbart News reported April 13:
A newly released Ipsos poll finds Americans are almost totally unified in their support for pausing immigration in the midst of the coronavirus crisis and mass unemployment.Overall, about 79 percent of American adults said they want immigration temporarily paused to the U.S. — a policy far beyond just the travel bans that have been implemented on Chinese, Iranian, and European travel to the country by President Trump’s administration.
Many opinions polls have shown the public strongly objects to companies hiring foreign workers before American employees. For example, an August 2017 poll reported that 68 percent of Americans oppose companies’ use of H-1Bs to outsource U.S.-based jobs that could be held by Americans.
DoJ/EEOC do nothing as US & Indian execs trade US jobs to Indian #H1B workers, cutting Americans out of careers, homes & families.
This trade choked innovation in Silicon-V, slammed insurance & banking. #SenMikeLee & #S386 will expand it to healthcare https://t.co/qoENwyO6X7— Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) March 9, 2020
Big Business Complains of Labor Shortage, High Wages While 22M Americans Out of Work
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Big business and Big Agriculture is complaining of labor shortages and high wages while the Chinese coronavirus crisis has spurred mass unemployment with at least 22 million Americans out of work.
While unemployment among Americans climbs to record levels, with now at least 22 million out of work in the last four weeks, employers who hire H-2A and H-2B foreign visa workers continue to complain that the United States is facing a labor shortage and that wages are too high.
Executives with the American Farm Bureau Federation, one of the leading cheap labor lobbying organizations, are backing a reported plan to federally lower wage rates for imported H-2A foreign visa workers that are brought into the U.S. to work on farms:
Paul Schlegel, vice president of public affairs at the American Farm Bureau Federation, said it’s important to address the [Adverse Effect Wage Rate] at a time when labor-intensive produce farms have lost much of their markets due to COVID-19. [Emphasis added]“The closing of restaurants, hotels and tourism is forcing farmers to plow under their fields to cut their losses,” Schlegel said. “Asking farmers to pay artificially high wages at a time when their own income has largely evaporated due to the COVID-19 pandemic is not right.” [Emphasis added]
The plan under consideration by the Agriculture Department would allow farmers to pay H-2A foreign visa workers wages below existing rates. The wage reduction policy would be coupled with the State Department’s fast-tracking of H-2A foreign visa workers into the U.S.
American Farm Bureau Federation executives praised the Agriculture Department for issuing visa waivers to more readily fast-track H-2A foreign visa workers, calling it “critically important.”
As federal data shows, H-2A foreign visa workers make up only about ten percent of the total U.S. crop farm workforce and the program is already used by farmers to pay imported foreign workers less than their American counterparts.
The H-2A visa program has no numerical limit. Last year, U.S. farmers hired roughly 250,000 H-2A foreign visa workers.
Gaston Marquevich, the CEO of Generation Farms — one of the largest crop growers of carrots and sweet onions on the East Coast — told TheStreet.com that his corporation has successfully imported foreign workers in the middle of the crisis:
Yeah, I think there is an issue, of course. There are many issues. One of the issues is a labor shortage. So, we started to work a conversation a month ago. So, but yeah, right in time when this COVID-19 came to us. So we normally use, in between Florida and Georgia, we normally use 1,200 employees as labor. So, we applied to the aid program. So normally, the program takes three months, and the last two or three year was taking like six months because all of this and then changes on the immigration policies, rules. [Emphasis added]So we’ve been very, very stressed about getting all the employees in place to allow us to pick up the crop from the ground. So we connect, a month ago, we contact the USDA team, the team that works with the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, and they basically have been very flexible, very cooperative with us, and they count on the USCIS in California. So in California, they contact the U.S. embassy in Monterey and finally we get 500 employees in Florida and 450 in Georgia. So we don’t have the 1,200 that normally we use, but we are okay with it the 950 right now. [Emphasis added]
On April 6, USA Today published the grievances of a local California agriculture reporter who argued that farmers are struggling “to find workers” despite mass unemployment:
A crippling labor shortage has affected nearly every corner of California agriculture. Increased competition for workers continues as wine grape growers lose labor to commercial cannabis growers — who can offer higher wages, stable employment and better working conditions because of how lucrative the crop is. [Emphasis added]
These complaints have also been echoed by the employers of H-2B foreign visa workers, whereby more than 66,000 foreign nationals are imported every year to take seasonal, nonagricultural jobs. The State Department, in the midst of the coronavirus crisis, is allowing employers to fast-track these foreign workers by waiving certain visa requirements.
Still, big business has claimed they are struggling to hire folks to take jobs. In a Bloomberg News report, an attorney for H-2B visa employers said that while millions are out of work, his clients still need imported foreign labor:
The holding pattern “shows the lack of understanding the government has of how the H-2B program is essential to the economy,” said Jeff Joseph, an attorney with Joseph & Hall in Aurora, Colo., who represents companies that employ H-2B workers. Some industries are operating as usual “regardless of the pandemic,” he said, and need workers going into the summer and fall. [Emphasis added]“Without clear, transparent information from the government on how long this shutdown is going to last, those people still need the workers,” he said, adding that his clients that employ H-2B workers—including resorts, landscaping companies, and outdoor-adventure operators—haven’t been laying off workers. [Emphasis addd]
Less than a month ago, Maryland seafood processors complained that they needed more H-2B foreign visa workers even after Acting Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Chad Wolf promised businesses an additional 35,000 foreign workers to hire:
Jack Brooks, co-owner of J.M. Clayton Seafood Co. in Cambridge, and president of the Chesapeake Bay Seafood Industries Association, said he expects a worker shortfall, despite the government’s action. [Emphasis added]Initially, the Department of Homeland Security doled out 33,000 work visas, which are in effect for six months beginning April 1. With the added 35,000 visas, the total still falls well short of the 100,000 slots that U.S. employers nationally had sought to fill. [Emphasis added]
While big business and Big Agriculture ask for more foreign workers, a number of leading conservative voices have asked President Trump’s administration to pause immigration to the U.S. — a plan supported by nearly 80 percent of Americans, according to the latest Ipsos poll.
Former Sen. Jeff Sessions and Laura Ingraham have said the nation’s unemployment totals should be eased by stopping increased labor market competition against unemployed Americans via legal immigration.
Such a pause to immigration would come after four decades of the U.S. admitting 525,000 to 1.8 million legal immigrants annually. The U.S., at current legal immigration levels, admits more legal immigrants than any other country in the world and has done so for more than two decades.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
DHS Allows Agricultural Guestworkers to Stay Indefinitely
By Preston Huennekens
ImmigrationReform.com
https://www.immigrationreform.com/2020/04/16/guestworker-agriculture-dhs-h2a-immigrationreform-com/
Meat shortages: The wages of 'cheap' illegal labor
In 2004's preachy, much panned leftist mockumentary, A Day without a Mexican, the supposedly hypothetical scenario, about how California would fall apart if all its Mexicans, including illegals, somehow disappeared, was acted out. The film had a grand old time portraying white people as a bunch of soft, privileged fools, unable to clean even their own toilets.
This is annoying because it lumps most Americans into a stereotype of a typically feckless, over-monied limousine liberal, such as you might really find in Hollywood circles.
But it did raise the question of U.S. dependence on illegal foreign labor.
Seems we might just be experiencing that now with the big meat plant shutdowns, based on problems with much of the labor force being out with the coronavirus. The plants also are described in news reports as having an "immigrant" workforce. Based on the number of ICE chicken plant raids seen in recent news, it's very likely that these plants, too, may be dependent on illegal alien labor. With those workers now either out with COVID-19 or else in, and spreading it to others, the plants are going down. Worse still, industry consolidation means that these plants are now few in number, so nothing can pick up the slack. The shutdowns are expected to mean meat shortages at the groceries, curiously similar to Venezuela's.
According to the Associated Press:
Some massive meat processing plants have closed at least temporarily because their workers were sickened by the new coronavirus, raising concerns that there could soon be shortages of beef, pork and poultry in supermarkets.The meat supply chain is especially vulnerable since processing is increasingly done at massive plants that butcher tens of thousands of animals daily, so the closure of even a few big ones can quickly be felt by customers. For instance, a Smithfield Foods plant that was forced to close in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, after nearly 300 of the plant's 3,700 workers tested positive for the virus produces roughly 5% of the U.S. pork supply each day.In addition, conditions at plants can be ripe for exploitation by the virus: Workers stand shoulder-to-shoulder on the line and crowd into locker rooms to change their clothes before and after shifts.
Just as the coronavirus crisis drove home the foolhardiness of corporate America outsourcing all of its manufacturing, including that of medicine, to China, so the upcoming meat shortages highlight the problem of dependency on a vast army of illegal "immigrant" labor for the nation's food processing. Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit noted the problem here:
CONDITIONS AT MEAT-PROCESSING PLANTS NEED TO BE BETTER. IF THEY COULDN’T HIRE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, THEY’D HAVE TO BE BETTER TO ATTRACT WORKERS: Beef processors are closing U.S. plants, warn of beef shortages and hoarding.
The New York Times and others cite the crowded conditions of meat-packing plants as one reason why workers are getting sick in high enough numbers at plants to force their shutdown. While it may or may not be correctable, there's obviously a limited replacement workforce for this kind of hard and disagreeable work. The money isn't great, either — the average earning in the big South Dakota Smithfield plant is $17.70 an hour, not a lovely wage for the hard work of stripping out animal guts from cows and pigs or picking the feathers and skin off chickens. The hard working conditions might just be the work of choice for people with low bargaining power owing to their illegal status. But that's not good when it involves the nation's meat supply.
The company itself has made some questionable calls, too, if the media reporting is right. Vox reports that workers were promised $500 bonuses at the Smithfield plant if they didn't miss work for a month. Got a cough? Come to work so you won't miss your bonus.
Speaking of bonuses, illegals may be even more incentivized to come to work while sick based on the fact that they aren't getting $1,200 stimulus checks to tide them over. If staying home to get well means no money at all, the incentive is there to come to work in close quarters while sick, which is apparently what happened. This is not an argument that they should get the checks. It's an argument that the U.S. shouldn't be dependent on workers for food processing in a consolidated industry who might feel compelled to come to work sick instead of stay home if they show symptoms of COVID-19.
As Reynolds notes, it comes down to conditions. If a plant can have tough working conditions and still attract a workforce to do the work, it will do that. If it can't, it needs to raise its wages and improve its working conditions to attract a wider and more flexible workforce.
The industry consolidation is another issue that seems to be compounding the problem. According to the Times, meat industry is now centralized with huge consolidated plants, another byproduct of globalization, same as illegal immigrant labor dependency. Who owns the Smithfield plant in this consolidation rage? Here's the Times:
In the 1980s and ’90s, companies like Smithfield, which is now owned by a Chinese pork company, bought out competitors and designed massive plants that could slaughter more than a million animals a year. At the same time, meatpacking became more concentrated in a few states where animal feed is grown, like Iowa and South Dakota.
The net result of these two products of globalization - illegal immigrant labor and Chinese consolidated ownership -- is meat shortages.
Why did Venezuela get meat shortages? Yes, socialist mismanagement, price controls, and corruption for sure. But overdependency on oil as its sole source of revenue was very much part of it, too. The high dollars the Venezuelan government was raking in from globally traded oil during the boom of the aught years pretty well drove other Venezuelan industries out of business, given that they were in no position to export competitively with their currency bloated in value and they couldn't afford imported raw materials, either.
Seems the dependencies on illegal labor and consolidated industries don't work well to ensure production in a pandemic, either. The meat shortages are here, too.
Which once again demonstrates that cheap labor isn's so cheap after all, particularly when it's monopoly labor. And the efficiencies of consolidation and centralization have costs too when there's a need for competition to pick up the slack. When the competition is gone, whether of labor or companies, you get the approximate result of centralized Venezuelan or Bernie Sanders-style socialism where the government controls everything. Happens every time.
Socialism can't correct itself. Capitalism, though can. And one hopes the coronavirus crisis is a wakeup call on the problems of dependency on cheap illegal foreign labor and consolidated foreign ownership.
Photo illustration by Monica Showalter using public domain sources and image by Michael Vadon via Wikimedia Commons and Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0.
DHS Allows Agricultural Guestworkers to Stay Indefinitely
By Preston Huennekens
ImmigrationReform.com
https://www.immigrationreform.com/2020/04/16/guestworker-agriculture-dhs-h2a-immigrationreform-com/
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