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.
Bernie
Sanders: ‘Of Course’ Cheap Illegal Workers Drive Down U.S. Wages
Andrew
Harnik/AP Photo
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3:30
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, attempting to explain his previous statements where he
has 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.
No
Labor Shortage: 11M Americans Out of Work, But All Want Full-Time Jobs https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/01/10/no-labor-shortage-11m-americans-out-of-work-but-all-want-full-time-jobs/ …
No Labor Shortage: 11M Americans Out of Work but Want
Full-Time Jobs
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.
Report:
California’s Middle-Class Wages Rise by 1 Percent in 40 Years
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.
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 reportedAugust 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%.
The New York Times laments that reduced
immigration does force wages upwards and also does force companies to buy
labor-saving, wage-boosting machinery. Instead, NYT prioritizes "ideas
about America’s identity and culture.” http://bit.ly/2Zp2u2J
NYT Admits Fewer
Immigrants Means Higher Wages, More Labor-Saving Machines
Unemployment Rate Jumps to 4.4%, 701,000 Jobs Lost
4:29
The unemployment rate jumped to 4.4 percent in March and the economy shed 701,000 jobs.
The new numbers from the Department of Labor’s employment situation report end the record 113 straight months run of hiring.
Employment in leisure and hospitality businesses fell by 459,000, with a loss of 417,000 of jobs in bars and restaurants. That’s enough to erase two years of gains.
Economists had forecast that the government would say employers shed about 150,000 jobs and that the unemployment rate rose from a half-century low of 3.5 percent to 3.9 percent, according to FactSet.
Health care employment declined by 43,000, as people put off elective medical procedures and even regular check-ups. Dentist offices lost 17,000 jobs, physician office lost 12,000 jobs, and other health care practitioners lost 7,000 jobs.
In March, social assistance saw an employment decline of 19,000, reflecting a 19,000 job loss in child daycare services.
Employment in professional and business services decreased by 52,000 in March, with temporary help services falling by 50,000. Employment also decreased in travel arrangement and reservation services by 7,000.
Retail trade declined by 46,000 jobs. Clothing and clothing accessories stores jobs shrank by 16,000, furniture store jobs fell by 10,000, and jobs in sporting goods, hobby, book, and music stories fell by 9,000.
In a demonstration of just how widespread the jobs losses have been, employment fell by 30,000 in construction, including an 11,000 job loss in heavy construction and civil engineering.
In March, manufacturing employment slipped by 18,000. Growth in manufacturing employment stagnated last year and is more or less unchanged from a year ago. Personal and laundry services dropped by 13,000.
But the jobs figures vastly understate the magnitude of last month’s losses because the government surveyed employers before the heaviest layoffs struck in the past two weeks. Nearly 10 million Americans have since applied for unemployment benefits, far more than for any corresponding period on record.
The higher than expected jobs loss and unemployment figures for March indicate that, some job cuts happened earlier in the month, when most economists think businesses began clamping down on hiring. The job loss for March underscore the head-snapping speed with which the economy has unraveled after nearly a decade in which employers added nearly 23 million jobs. As recently as February, employers added 273,000 jobs.
Economists had welcomed February’s job gain, though they wondered why hourly paychecks weren’t rising more quickly. But any concerns over sluggish wage growth have now been put well off to the side.
“Four years of job gains have evaporated in the span of two weeks,” said Daniel Zhao, an economist at the jobs website Glassdoor.
The layoffs will continue to mount. Some economists have forecast that 20 million jobs will be lost by the end of April, swelling the unemployment rate as high as 15% and wiping out the bulk of the past decade’s gains. That unemployment rate would be the worst since the 1930s.
Roughly 90 percent of the U.S. population is living under some version of a shutdown order, which has forced the closure of bars, restaurants, movie theaters, factories, gyms and most other businesses. Some hotels are closed; others are largely empty. Fast-food chains are either closed or providing only drive-through service, costing thousands of jobs.
With business activity tightly restricted, analysts expect a stomach-churning recession. Economists at Goldman Sachs have forecast that the economy will shrink at an annual rate of 34 percent in the April-June quarter — the worse fall on records dating to World War II. Goldman expects the economy to rebound with 19 percent growth in the third quarter. But even by the end of next year, the economy will not have fully recovered from the damage, Goldman projects.
–The Associated Press contributed to this report
ALONG WITH
NANCY PELOSI, FEINSTEIN COMES FROM THE DUMPSTER MEXICAN WELFARE STATE AND
COLONY OF CALIFORNIA, NOW KNOWN AS MEXIFORNIA.
Surely you
don’t think war profiteer Feinstein pays living wages to her S.F. hotel
employees. Not when the state is flooded with millions of Dem voting “CHEAP”
labor illegals
FEINSTEIN
SAYS ILLEGALS STEAL JOBS FROM AMERICANS.... So keep them coming!
“Senator
Dianne Feinstein warned, at the time, they had to solve this crisis now—of
immigrants coming in illegally and getting these jobs.”
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/05/senator-dianne-feinstein-looking-to-buy.html
“The Democrats had abandoned their working-class base to chase
what they pretended was a racial group when what they were actually chasing was
the momentum of unlimited migration”.
DANIEL GREENFIELD / FRONT PAGE MAGAZINE
Democrat
Attorneys General Demand Fast-Track Work Permits for Illegals and Migrants
15 Jan 20201,570
11:03
Twenty-one top Democrat state
officials are trying to block a White House reform that would protect
Americans’ jobs and wages from hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants and
economic migrants who try to get U.S. jobs.
“That’s bad for
immigrants,” said a tweet from New Jersey’s Democrat attorney general,
Gurbir Grewal. Agency officials “want to delay & deny work permits for
asylum seekers.”
“This proposal is cruel and legally
questionable at best,” said California’s Democrat attorney general, Xavier
Becerra. Migrants “who do not enter the country through a port of entry or have
resided in the United States for more than a year would now be summarily denied
access to a work permit,” he said.
The draft proposal would end the
long-standing agency practice of quickly giving one-year work permits to
migrants who ask for asylum, and also illegal immigrants who ask for green
cards. For example, it would withhold work permits from Central American asylum
seekers for more than a year after they present themselves at a U.S. border
post, and it would end the policy of providing
temporary work permits to long-term illegals. The rule would also deny work
permits to migrants who apply for asylum after sneaking into the United States.
The lax work permit policies were
pushed by Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. The policies have
provided millions of work permits to migrants. That huge supply of imported
labor boosts investors and companies by undercutting blue-collar and
white-collar wages, and it encourages more illegal migration.
The scale of this work permit
economy is sketched by the Department of Homeland Security. A January 14 chart shows that at least
1,726,688 got work permits in 2019, alongside the roughly four million
Americans who turned 18 during the year.
The federal government “estimates
that 305,000 asylum seekers will be affected by the Proposed Rule in the first
year alone, with just under 300,000 affected in subsequent years,” according to
the complaint by the 21
attorneys general.
“This important new regulatory
initiative has had far less media coverage than it merits,” said Dale Wilcox,
general counsel of the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI).
“The new regulation is complex
but cohesive in its three-part strategy to deter aliens from filing fraudulent
or otherwise defective asylum claims,” said a January 14 statement from the
IRLI:
Aliens who illegally cross the
border instead of applying for asylum at a port of entry will be ineligible to
work until they are actually granted asylum. All applicants must appear at
USCIS offices to provide fingerprints, photos, and other biodata before
becoming eligible to apply for work permission. IRLI agrees with the government
that this will greatly improve screening for ineligible criminal aliens, a
major problem in this area.
…
Longstanding federal statutes bar
asylum applications filed more than a year after arrival, and sanction
applications that are “frivolous.” The new reforms restrict or eliminate more
than a dozen loopholes in the regulations implementing these statutes. These
loopholes have been used by immigration lawyers and anti-borders activists to
make incomplete and often dishonest applications, many thousands of which are
received eight or even ten years after the aliens first illegally crossed our
borders.
“The [courtroom] backlogs in
adjudicating all these [asylum] claims result in almost automatic employment
authorization, which depresses the wages of American workers and is a magnet
for further illegal entry,” said the IRLI statement. “We applaud the
administration for taking this important step to protect American workers and
gain control of the border.”
A Rasmussen survey shows likely voters by
2:1 want Congress to make companies hire & train US grads & workers
instead of importing more foreign workers.
The survey also shows this $/class-based
view co-exists w/ much sympathy for illegal migrants. #S386http://bit.ly/2ZA6WIE
Rasmussen
Shows 2:1 Opposition to Cheap Labor Legal Immigration
The Democrat attorneys general
submitted their objections during the
comment period on draft regulations.
The regulation contradicts the
pro-migration “Nation of Immigrants” narrative, say the Democrats:
We, the undersigned Attorneys
General of New Jersey, California, the District of Columbia, Colorado,
Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts,
Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode
Island, Vermont, and Washington (“The States”), write …
An animating value of the United
States is embodied in the now-famous lines inscribed on the Statue of Liberty:
“Give me your tired, your poor / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”
The United States has committed itself to providing asylum seekers a haven from
persecution, regardless of whether they are rich or poor. Indeed, in
establishing the framework for today’s asylum system in the Refugee Act of
1980, Congress made clear it was codifying “one of the oldest themes in
America’s history—welcoming homeless refugees to our shores.”
The regulation will deter further
migration into U.S. jobs, disadvantaging employers and state governments, the
Democrats complain:
By barring many applicants from EADs
completely and indefinitely delaying others’ EADs, the Proposed Rule imposes
economic hurdles that will harm both asylum seekers and States and serve as a
deterrent to seeking asylum in the first instance. Limiting EAD access will
push asylum seekers into the underground economy, impede their ability to take
care of themselves and their families, and harm their health and wellbeing. The
States, too, will feel these consequences. The States, for their part, welcome
thousands of asylum seekers each year who contribute greatly to their
communities and economies.1 The Proposed Rule will lower tax and spending
revenue in the States and harm businesses within the States that will have to
find replacements and alternative labor. It will also increase reliance on
state-funded programs, and hinder the States’ ability to enforce their own
labor and civil rights laws.
…
The Proposed Rule will make it much
more difficult, if not impossible, for many to legally work, costing the States
millions of dollars in lost tax revenue and diminished economic growth. Second,
the resulting delays and denials of work authorization will lead to increased
healthcare costs shouldered by the States. Third, the Proposed Rule will burden
the States’ other social service providers, including state funded non-profit
service providers. Fourth, and finally, the Proposed Rule will make it more
difficult for the States to enforce their own laws, particularly those designed
to protect workers from unfair and abusive conditions of employment.
…
Although unauthorized workers pay
taxes, tax revenue increases when immigrants can legally work, and the States
could stand to lose substantial revenue if the Proposed Rule is implemented.
Currently, undocumented immigrants residing in the States pay approximately
$7.4 billion in state and local taxes annually. This would increase by
approximately $1.4 billion if undocumented immigrants were given legal status.
The Democrats complain the
regulation will make it difficult for migrants to hire the lawyers needed to
win asylum:
Under the Department’s restrictive
approach to work authorization, fewer asylum seekers will have the resources to
hire legal counsel to navigate them through the complex and evolving
immigration bureaucracy.4 That matters a great deal. In 2017, 90 percent of
those without legal representation were denied asylum in immigration court
while only 54 percent of those with legal representation were denied.
The regulation will impact many
migrants, the state attorneys general write:
USCIS asylum offices within the
States are considering 40 percent of the 327,984 pending affirmative asylum
applications. Based on calculations involving the most recent available data,
these offices receive an average of approximately 45,615 asylum applications
per year. The States also hosted over 10,000 or 80 percent of the 13,248 total
immigration court grants of asylum in 2018.
The rule will hurt the businesses
that earn revenues from illegal migrants, they say:
The Proposed Rule will also significantly
reduce the spending power of asylum seekers, thereby weakening the economies of
the States. Curtailing work authorization for asylum seekers or cutting others
off from EADs prematurely will result in lost wages and money that does not
flow to the States’ businesses and economies. The New American Economy
estimates that immigrants exercise billions in spending power each year,
totaling over $724.8 billion in the States. Indeed, the Department itself
recognizes that up to $4.4 billion could be lost in wages.
Businesses will have to hire
Americans instead of migrants and illegals, the attorneys general complain:
By the Department’s own admission,
businesses will not only lose potential labor, but also will likely have to
find replacement labor because the Proposed Rule cuts short asylum seekers’
ability to continue working, even if their asylum cases are ongoing in federal
court. Although the Department asserts that businesses potentially could find
other labor to substitute for the jobs that asylum applicants currently
hold, its own analysis belies that premise. The Department acknowledges that
with the unemployment rate at a “50-year low [. . .] it could be possible that
employers may face difficulties finding reasonable labor substitutes.”
Migrants — including illegals —
provide a large part of the labor force hired by employers in many states, they
say:
While the Department makes no
inquiry into the “wages, occupations, industries, or businesses that may employ
such workers,” there is substantial data that several sectors of the States’
economies disproportionately employ immigrants and are likely to face costs
while trying to find labor substitutes. In New Jersey, for example, service
providers report that many asylum seekers are employed as home health aides,
engineers, dental assistants, construction workers, and in farming and
agriculture. Immigrants fill over two-thirds of the jobs in California’s
agricultural and related sectors, almost half of those in manufacturing, 43
percent of construction jobs, and 41 percent of those in computer and sciences.
Likewise, approximately 43 percent of employed undocumented workers in Illinois
are employed in the food services and manufacturing industries. In New York,
immigrants account for 71.4 percent of taxi drivers and chauffeurs; 68.3
percent of workers in private households, including maids, housekeepers, and
nannies; 57.9 percent of those working as chefs and head cooks; 57.3 percent of
nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides; and 44.7 percent of the state’s
workers in traveler accommodation.
Almost 50% of U.S. employees got higher
wages in 2019, up from almost 40% in 2018.
That's useful progress - but wage growth
will likely rise faster if Congress stopped inflating the labor supply for the
benefit of business. http://bit.ly/2SyaLg7
CBO:
Immigration Has ‘Negative Effect on Wages’
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.
The #OPT Optional Practical Training program is an estb.-run labor-trafficking scheme to sideline American graduates.
It will expand if #S386 becomes law http://bit.ly/39H2Zqh
The #OPT Optional Practical Training program is an estb.-run labor-trafficking scheme to sideline American graduates.
It will expand if #S386 becomes law http://bit.ly/39H2Zqh
Watch: ICE Lure and Sting
Indian Illegal Labor 'OPT' Traffickers
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.”
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