“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
Tom Cotton: We know what's behind Biden's secrecy
Bombshell report shows Biden admin secretly transporting migrants around US
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFiTwBf6HwI
Gov. Abbott blasts Biden's 'catastrophic open border policies' for migrant crisis
Gingrich accuses Biden administration of 'rejecting' reality
Dem Budget Bill Would Slash Border Protection Budget by Half Billion Dollars
Cuts proposed as southern border faces a decades-high surge of illegal immigrants
Senate Democrats are moving to slash the budget for Customs and Border Protection by half a billion dollars in the midst of an immigration crisis, putting more strain on an agency with nearly exhausted resources.
The appropriations bill, released Monday by Sen. Chris Murphy (D., Conn.), allocates just $14.5 billion to CBP for the 2022 fiscal year, down from $15 billion the year before and $80 million less than what President Joe Biden requested in his budget. Immigration and Customs Enforcement would receive $7.9 billion, a cut of $40 million from the previous year and $58 million less than what Biden asked for.
Democrats also proposed reduced funding for family detention centers, while pumping more money toward constructing new migrant processing centers along the U.S.-Mexico border. The measure indicates that Democrats don't see the surge ending anytime soon. The new processing centers, they say, will reduce migrant time in custody. The bill forbids Homeland Security Investigations, an arm of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, from enforcing immigration laws. It instead directs the agency to only focus on "the disruption of transnational crime," such as drug trafficking or money laundering.
The proposed cuts come as the southern border faces a decades-high surge of illegal immigrants attempting to enter the United States. Immigration authorities expect to report nearly two million migrant encounters at the border this fiscal year, the first time the number has exceeded one million since 2006.
"It's time for the Department of Homeland Security to make investments in what protects us, not what divides us," Murphy said in a statement. "The ineffective and inhumane border policies and political vanity projects of the Trump Administration didn't make our nation safer, and it's time to turn the page to fund policies that meet the actual threats presented to this nation."
The White House did not respond to a request for comment.
Senate Democrats in a summary of the bill said cuts to detention centers were warranted by "lower overall detention numbers due to the pandemic and related-litigation." Between January and August, however, the number of illegal aliens detained by ICE increased by 70 percent, according to data provided by the agency.
The Senate Democrats' proposal represents another blow to an agency already frustrated by the White House's apparent lack of interest in funding border security and migrant processing measures. A senior DHS official who spoke with the Washington Free Beacon sounded the alarm on the president’s initial budget request to Congress, citing inflation and lack of manpower at CBP as challenges that need to be addressed.
"We were already going to have less money next year under Biden’s plan," the official said. "This is not a party serious about enforcing immigration law."
POVERTY SOARS AS JOE BIDEN FLOODS AMERICA WITH 'CHEAP' LABOR ILLEGALS - THE TRUE COST WILL BE PASSED ALONG TO MIDDLE AMERICA.... WHAT MIDDLE AMERICA?!?
Goodbye Middle Class: 50 Percent Of All U.S. Workers Made $34,612.04 Or Less Last Year
RECESSION? ONLY FOR THE RICH. FOR THE REST OF US IT IS CLEARLY A DEPRESSION!
ARE YOU FEELING THE RECESSION? ECONOMIST WARN IT'S HERE NOW, PANIC BUYING, HOME PRICES OUT OF REACH
The Great Resignation: Why Millions Of Workers Are Quitting
Why Are Millions Of Americans Quitting Their Jobs And Not Getting New Ones?
Ryan Grim: 4.3 Million Workers Just Told Their Bosses To Shove It
GOODBYE MIDDLE CLASS - U.S. WORKERS ARE BROKE - SERIOUS FINANCIAL PROBLEMS - SURVIVING ON LOW WAGES
Zillow STOPS Buying. Housing Crash NEXT?
THE ECONOMY WILL HIT A WALL, LEGENDARY INVESTOR WARNS, NEXT FINANCIAL CRISIS
HOME FLIPPERS BEWARE
Idaho feels impact of drug trafficking from border
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFiTwBf6HwI
Gov. Abbott blasts Biden's 'catastrophic open border policies' for migrant crisis
Gingrich accuses Biden administration of 'rejecting' reality
The New York Post's October 19 front-page story detailing the planeloads of young illegal migrants being secretly flown into Westchester County Airport has directly and inconveniently brought the southern border story into the wealthy suburban bedroom communities of New York. It also underlined the increasing ferocity of the progressive left's illegitimate assault on traditional America.
The story is particularly revelatory, because illegal immigration has up until now not been something that residents of suburban New York, Connecticut, or New Jersey particularly worried about. But Westchester County Airport is located in Rye Brook, N.Y. and abuts affluent residential neighborhoods in Purchase, N.Y.; Greenwich, Conn.; and beyond.
When the clandestine flights were first made public in August, Democrat county executive George Latimer at first professed ignorance, and the local media were happy to bury the story. He would only say the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services had authorized the flights. However, the New York Post's new front page story of the secret, early-morning flights of thousands of illegals, bolstered by multiple photographs, revealed the magnitude of the resettlement activities.
At this writing, Latimer had not released a statement, but the presence of county police at the airport clearly indicates that his administration is aware of the secret flights and resettlement.
Christine Sculti, his Republican opponent for county executive in the November 2 election, responded to the New York Post's story. "This is the second time Mr. Latimer has stonewalled on these critical public health, safety and transparency issues. I join residents who are rightfully fed up with his failure to stand up to the White House and his failure to protect the interests of the residents of Westchester County."
Clearly, the secret flights into regional airports were designed as a way for the White House to disguise the large number of illegals being welcomed into this county unvetted and unvaxxed. Westchester's small, regional airport was a low-key way to disperse the illegal migrants discreetly to unknown locations in the tri-state metropolitan area.
To accomplish their objectives, the federal government and its Westchester County enablers are conducting themselves in ways denied to regular citizens. The flights land between midnight and 6:30 A.M., when the airport is voluntarily closed during a curfew for commercial flights due to its proximity to residential areas. The New York Post has tracking data that 2,000 migrants have arrived at the airport on 21 flights since August 8 as well as specific times for the flights.
On October 15, the Post said one bus sped down the Hutchison River Parkway, which bars buses, at more than 75 miles an hour, exceeding the 55-mile-an-hour limit, eventually winding up in Syosset, Long Island, at MercyFirst, a nonprofit sponsored by the Catholic Sisters of Mary.
In addition, Westchester County is using law enforcement to protect the migrants. The Post reported that Westchester County Police are present when the illegal migrants deplane and are redirected to chartered buses.
Neither the federal government nor Westchester County has indicated the vaccination status of the illegal migrants being flown in. But the Democrat governors of New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey are demanding that all their legal citizens get vaccinated. In New York City, people must show proof of vaccination before dining, going to the theater, or working out.
Former Westchester County executive Rob Astorino, a current Republican candidate for New York's governor, commented, "New York's politicians are treating their citizens as if they don't belong here and non-citizens as if they do. And if you dare question them, they scream racism, because they know their policies are wrong, expensive, and sometimes even dangerous."
Current county executive Latimer has supported special treatment for illegal migrants. Within months of winning the office in late 2017, he signed the Immigrant Protection Act that limits information county law enforcement will share with federal immigration authorities and bars county employees from asking about a person's citizenship.
Over the last two years, Americans in many blue states have endured an increasing intensity of tyrannical regulations and statutes, while criminals are coddled with special treatment. In New York, the COVID pandemic coincided with the passage of no-bail legislation, which puts criminals back on the streets to commit more crimes. Former governor Cuomo and now his successor, Governor Kathy Hochul, put in place mask mandates that continue to this day, regardless of vaccination status or COVID disease levels. The new governor has now directed state officials, healthcare workers, and police to be vaccinated or be fired. As a result, hospitals, police departments, and fire departments are losing workers. The new governor signed the Less Is More Act, which makes it easier to free prisoners and prevents the jailing of convicted criminals for technical violations of parole.
Democrat politicians are intent on abusing law-abiding citizens with mask mandates, firings, and increased crime on one hand, while giving increased leniency and privileges to lawbreakers.
The clandestine flights of illegal migrants into Westchester County Airport, the lack of vetting and vaccination, and their disbursal into points unknown in the New York metropolitan area are one example of an agenda that has violated the normal guiderails of executive and legislative policies. It is clear that these politicians are so intent on implementing their agenda before they get voted out of office that they care not for the welfare or safety of Americans, nor for the financial burdens their policies inflict.
Linda R. Killian is a local Republican chairman in New York State.
JOE BIDEN HAS SABOTAGED THE AMERICAN WORKER FOR AS LONG AS HE'S MADE MILLIONS SUCKING OFF BRIBES FROM BANKSTERS AND RED CHINA
Idaho feels impact of drug trafficking from border
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFiTwBf6HwI
Gov. Abbott blasts Biden's 'catastrophic open border policies' for migrant crisis
Texas Dem. Legislator Calls on Biden to Approve Border Emergency Declaration
Texas State Representative Eddie Morales, Jr. (D-Eagle Pass) penned a letter to President Joe Biden requesting approval of Governor Greg Abbott’s border emergency declaration. An approval by the president would allow FEMA to reimburse residents for damages caused by migrants.
“Last week, on October 13th, I wrote to President Biden urging him to grant a Federal Emergency Authorization for the border crisis,” Representative Morales wrote in a Facebook post about the letter. “Initially, he rejected to grant a Federal Emergency Authorization, but Texas is now appealing.”
In June, Governor Abbott told Breitbart Texas he would issue a State of Emergency Declaration along the state’s border with Mexico.
“The influx across the border is out of control, and the Biden Administration has shown that is not going to step up and do its job,” Governor Abbott told Breitbart Texas shortly before the public announcement on June 10. “And amidst reports of even more people coming in across the border, we know we have to step up and do more.”
President Biden refused the application for FEMA support and has not spoken with Abbott a single time since his inauguration.
“I am fighting hard for President Biden to grant this authorization because I believe families should not have to bear the financial responsibility from the damages brought on by migrant crossings,” Morales continued in his Facebook post. “My office has received reports from families of migrants coming up to their homes, and in some instances, breaking in. We have also heard reports of ranchers having their fences cut and people’s water lines severed. Victims of this damage should not bear the financial responsibility of repairs.”
In July, Texas Farm Bureau President Russell Boening told Breitbart Texas, “The sheer magnitude and number of people moving through is overwhelming. The brashness and expectations of the people is different than years ago.”
In the article with Boening’s interview, Texas farmers and ranchers described the fear they live under and the cost of damage created by the historic mass migrants across the border with Mexico.
“Families and individuals along the border are often scared for their safety,” Morales wrote in the letter to Biden. “The people I represent — the people who live in these communities — do not deserve to be subject to this fear, nor should they be subject to having to pay for the damages to their property.”
“Democrat to Democrat, this does not need to be a partisan matter,” the Texas state rep. continued. “These communities are pleading for the safety and security of American and Texas citizens.”
Morales said the burden on his constituents is too great and their community resources are too minimal to deal with this border crisis.
“We need help and relief,” Morales concluded. “I ask that we put partisan politics aside and the federal government approve relief for communities who can no longer bear the costs.”
Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior news contributor for the Breitbart Texas-Border team. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is a regular panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s What’s Your Point? Sunday-morning talk show. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX and Face
Biden CBP Nominee Puts Admin to the Left of Obama on Immigration
Former police chief Chris Magnus in 2020 rejected federal grant for border towns
President Joe Biden’s pick to lead Customs and Border Protection, while working as police chief in Tucson, Ariz., rejected funding for a border security program championed by the Obama administration, the latest example of the White House’s commitment to undo years of immigration policy once thought of as a consensus between Democrats and Republicans.
Chris Magnus, a champion of softer policing tactics, rejected a federal grant in January 2020 that assisted border towns, arguing the program, first implemented by the Bush administration in 2006, was inconsistent with the Tucson Police Department’s priorities "and the expectation of the community we serve."
His opposition to the grant was partially rooted in the Trump administration's refusal to let Tucson spend part of the grant money on humanitarian aid. Magnus's request went far beyond the parameters of the program, called Operation Stonegarden, which "funds investments in joint efforts to secure the United States' borders." A description of the latest iteration of the program under the Biden administration does not say whether funds may be used for medical treatment or housing illegal immigrants.
Operation Stonegarden was championed by former president Barack Obama, who injected millions more dollars into the program than was allocated by the Bush administration as part of a broader effort to deter narcotics trafficking and cartel violence. Former Department of Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano called the grants "critical" and said they would "ensure that our first responders are equipped with the resources they need to confront the complex and dynamic challenges that exist along our borders."
As the southern border sees a record number of crossings, the Biden administration remains committed to liberalizing the nation's immigration system with a range of new policies, including relaxed asylum rules, stricter deportation protocols, and fewer raids against suspected illegal immigrants. Magnus appears prepared to oversee these policies. In 2017, he wrote in an op-ed for the New York Times that he was "deeply troubled" by the Trump administration’s opposition to local sanctuary policies, a practice by Democrat-controlled cities that sharply limits cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
Magnus's decision to reject the funds in 2020 sparked outrage from his own department, with the Tucson Police Officers Association calling the decision "bad for public safety in our community."
"The Stonegarden deployments have resulted in hundreds of arrests that would not have occurred without this federal money. Additionally, the Stonegarden deployments have taken countless guns and drugs off the streets of Tucson," the association's president, Tony Archibald, said at the time. "Without these federally funded overtime deployments, an already understaffed police department will have a hard time addressing these crime issues."
Toward the end of his second term, Obama instituted a policy that denied Department of Justice grants to any jurisdiction that refused to enforce federal immigration law. His Justice Department also released a rule in February 2016 that made it harder for sanctuary cities to help illegal aliens in federal custody avoid deportation.
That move was applauded by Republicans, with former Texas representative John Culberson (R.) saying he was "deeply grateful."
Biden reversed the Obama-era policy and his Justice Department has sought dismissal of any Supreme Court cases concerning sanctuary cities.
On the campaign trail, Biden chided his former boss for overseeing a "long-broken and chaotic" immigration system. In a debate with former president Donald Trump, he said the Obama administration "made a mistake" by deporting hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens. He promised to make amnesty a centerpiece of his administration.
Last month, Obama granted an interview to ABC News where he offered veiled criticism of the Biden administration's handling of the migrant crisis. As thousands of Haitian migrants were stranded under a bridge on Del Rio, Texas, the former president said the scene was a "painful reminder that we don't have this right yet and we've got more work to do," before rejecting the idea of open borders as "unsustainable."
"And the question is now: Are we gonna get serious about dealing with this problem in a systemic way, as opposed to these one-offs where we're constantly reacting to emergencies?" Obama said. "And I think that that's something that every American should wanna put an end to."
Magnus's confirmation hearing will be held in the Senate Finance Committee on Oct. 19.
As Border Crisis Mounts, First Lady Boosts Group That Helps Illegals Avoid Arrest
Kansas City's El Centro led by Dem donor, tied to groups pushing CRT
As the crisis at the southern border becomes a political liability for her husband, first lady Jill Biden (Ed.D.) promoted a private school run by a Democratic donor that advises illegal immigrants on how to avoid arrest.
Biden visited El Centro Academy in Kansas City, Kan., on Tuesday at the request of Rep. Sharice Davids (D., Kan.), according to El Centro president and CEO Irene Caudillo, who has made political contributions to both Davids and the Biden campaign. El Centro's nonprofit arm dabbles in more than reading, writing, and arithmetic. It has published a series of videos that instruct illegal immigrants on how to avoid arrest from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. One video, for example, advises viewers to ignore ICE agents altogether during an interaction and contact "a member of the community who does have status." Caudillo also worked with the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce to create "safe spaces" for immigrants by prohibiting local cooperation with ICE to "protect residents from deportation."
Biden's visit comes as her husband's administration scrambles to deal with an unprecedented border crisis. The number of illegal crossings at the southern border is at a multi-decade high, with law enforcement expected to report nearly two million migrant encounters in fiscal year 2021. The Biden administration in September announced new rules that limit ICE's ability to arrest and deport illegal immigrants.
First lady Biden, who was joined by Small Business Administration head Isabel Guzman, publicly embraced El Centro as the perfect site for a "charla"—Spanish for "chat"—with Hispanic community members. She thanked the academy "for all you do" in a Tuesday tweet. The White House did not return a request for comment. Caudillo told the Washington Free Beacon she did not discuss immigration with Biden and "shared our El Centro story privately with her."
In addition to Caudillo's illegal immigration advocacy, El Centro has received substantial funding from UnidosUS, a liberal immigration group that has defended teaching critical race theory in K-12 schools, calling the controversial curriculum "a truthful retelling of our nation's history." Caudillo also serves on the board of Revolucion Educativa, an affiliate of the Kansas City, Mo.-based Latinx Education Collaborative that has promoted critical race theory as an "important" framework to include in middle and high schools.
The affiliation could present a political liability for Davids. While the Kansas State Board of Education has contended that critical race theory "is not part of Kansas academic standards," one district in the state scrapped a planned diversity training after local parents argued it included critical race theory teachings.
Davids herself faced criticism in August after she endorsed a list of books from a self-described "radical" book publisher. Several of the titles are considered critical race theory resources, including Black Lives Matter at School, The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom, How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America, and From #Black Lives Matter to Black Liberation.
Davids did not return a request for comment.
Biden has looked to distance herself from the ongoing border crisis in the past after reports emerged in HuffPost and other media outlets that the first lady planned to take a leading role in a "task force to reunite separated immigrant families." In March, the first lady's office insisted she had "no formal role" in the administration's efforts. Biden will, however, have a formal role in the White House's political operations—the first lady is set to stump for Terry McAuliffe in Virginia on Friday as Democrats look to avoid a high-profile gubernatorial loss in a state they won by double digits in 2020.
THIS FUCKER LAWYER MAYORKAS FIGHTS TOOTH AND NAIL AGAINST E-VERIFY AND CAN'T OPEN HIS MOUTH WITHOUT MORE LIES COMING OUT ABOUT BIDEN'S INVASION.
REALITY IS THAT NAFTA JOE BIDEN HAS ALWAYS FOUGHT AGAINST THE AMERICAN WORKER!
Biden’s border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas, has already spent much of 2021 helping the CEOs and shareholders to re-inflate the cheap-labor bubble that hurt millions of Americans.
Since January, he has admitted at least 800,000 working-age migrants, and rolled back enforcement of U.S. labor law in abusive workplaces. The huge inflow has boosted the number of no-English speaking workers in Virginia and elsewhere.
Restaurant Execs: Less Migration Forces More Respect for American Employees
The shortage of migrants and willing Americans is forcing food-industry CEOs to treat their employees with more respect and dignity, says the personnel chief at one of the nation’s largest restaurant firms.
“You’ve got to be receptive to feedback,” Rick Badgley at Brinker International which owns the Chili’s Maggiano’s Little Italy restaurant chains, told an industry conference on October 13. He continued:
The workforce that we’re dealing with now has high standards, high demands, and high expectations. Make sure you’re investing the time to listen, listen to your team members, they have invaluable feedback for you.
Employees “have very distinct and really easy-to-follow motivators,” said Badgley told attendees at the conference, which was organized by food-delivery firm Doordash:
What we’ve experienced at the macro level down to the restaurant level, is that they [most] want flexibility with what has happened with what we call now the gig economy, the side hustle …
[And] compensation is important to everybody. What we’ve found through surveys and talking to our frontline employees, is that we need to align their compensation with their monthly bills.
Many food-industry companies hired workers under “at will” contracts where the employees do not know how many hours they will be scheduled to work each day. The contracts leave them with little ability to work other jobs, or even to arrange regular babysitting for their kids.
“Traditionally in restaurants, it was: ‘Hey, this is the job. If you want these hours, great; if not, we’ll find somebody else,’” Christopher Floyd, owner of a food-industry recruitment firm told the New York Times. “Now employers have to say, ‘You have the qualities we’re looking for; maybe we can work out a more flexible schedule that works for you.’
Customers dine at the Greek restaurant Molos in Weehawken, New Jersey on February 6, 2021, amid the coronavirus pandemic. (KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty)
Badgley’s recommendation comes amid widespread dissatisfaction by American restaurant workers, according to a September report by Black Box Intelligence, a firm that tracks the restaurant sector:
Most people agree higher pay is the main reason employees are leaving for other industries. Another driver is a need for a more consistent schedule and income. 51% of workers chose to work in restaurants because of flexibility, but beyond that flexibility, employees want some sense of consistency in terms of what their schedule might be and their income as a result.
“We don’t like to say this much, but it has long been the practice of many restaurants to hire staff as inexpensively as possible and provide them with the fewest benefits that they can, often by restricting their hours so they don’t qualify as full-time employees,” said Bret Thorn, the senior food & beverage editor for Nation’s Restaurant News. “We all know this,” he added:
I guess that can be a good business plan when the labor pool is deep, which it’s not now and I doubt will be for the foreseeable future, but it’s also cruel, and a growing number of people who have worked in restaurants now see that they can do better, and that they deserve better.
Legal and illegal migrant labor is commonplace and beneficial for business, partly because it minimizes the emergence of a wage-boosting tight labor market among American restaurant workers — or among their white-collar peers.
In August, for example, federal officials charged 19 co-defendants for allegedly running “an organized criminal enterprise from July 2003 to Aug. 10, 2021, that smuggled Mexican, Guatemalan, and El Salvadoran nationals who were not authorized to live or work in the United States.” The ring supplied many workers to at least 45 restaurants across the midwest.
In Detroit, River Bistro chef Maxcel Hardy prepares a Caribbean shrimp dish at his restaurant. The city allows chefs and prospective restaurant owners to realize their dreams at a lower financial cost than other places, like New York, according to chef Hardy. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
Nonetheless, the poor wages and working conditions are a step up for many poor migrants, partly because they know that U.S. jobs may allow them to successfully launch their children into the United States.
“My parents came to the United States in the 1960s from Mexico … in search of a better life,” said Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) told an October 15 meeting with progressive lobbyists:
They weren’t blessed with a lot of formal education. My dad only had the opportunity to go to school for the first grade before stopping to work to help the family. My mom, we said, was the lucky one. She had a chance to finish elementary school, before doing the same. But they came to United States with a tremendous work ethic and big dreams. For 40 years, my father helped provide for our family by working as a short-order cook. And if you’re wondering what that means, if you’ve ever been out for breakfast, think of who’s scrambling eggs and flipping pancakes when you place an order. That’s what my dad did for 40 years. For the same 40 years, my mom used to clean houses. So, needless to say, it’s hard work, honest work, and and on those modest incomes they raised three of us.
But all that cheap labor made restaurant jobs miserable for many millions of poor Americans — and now they do not want to come back to the industry which treated them so badly.
In effect, exploitative executives drained their labor pool in the easy decades before Trump and the cor0navirus burst their cheap-labor bubble in 2020. Joblist.com, a job-finding site, reported in July 2021:
38% of former hospitality workers report that they are not even considering a hospitality job for their next position. These workers are transitioning out of the industry in search of a different work setting (52%), higher pay (45%), better benefits (29%), and more schedule flexibility (19%). Over 50% of former hospitality workers who are looking for other work say that no pay increase or incentive would make them return to their old restaurant, bar, or hotel job.
When industry executives raise wages to new hires, they also must raise the wages of their existing employees. The Wall Street Journal reported in August:
Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. said in May that it was lifting its pay for hourly positions to an average of $15 an hour, amounting to an average raise of around $2 for front-line workers … The chain, which owns and operates its nearly 2,900 locations, made sure the raises included a premium for experienced employees within each role, and gave raises that averaged around $2 an hour to hourly managers and commensurate raises to salaried managers.
“Labor is substantially costing more now,” Hudson Riehle, the research director at the National Restaurant Association, told the Doordash conference:
You can see [on a chart] the average hourly earnings growth there coming out of the great recession …. currently running in excess of 6%. And for a typical restaurant operation, labor accounts about a third of the restaurant industry sales dollar. Food and beverage purchases [are] another third, and pre-tax income [profit] is generally just 3 to 6 percent. So there isn’t a lot of room of maneuverability for the operator to maintain their pretax profit margins. Consequently, margins are substantially under pressure in the industry for those operators that have survived.
Unsurprisingly, industry executives and stock-market analysts are pleading with Biden to re-inflate the cheap-labor bubble.
Guests dine at the Los Angeles Conservancy in Los Angeles, California. (Amanda Edwards/Getty)
“We need immigration in our industry to have enough team members,” Domino’s Pizza’s CEO Ritch Allison told CNBC on October 15. Migrants “who want to work hard, want to stay with the business for a long period of time, can end up being owners and entrepreneurs,” he explained.
CNBC’s investment advisor, Jim Cramer, echoed the CEO’s demand for more imported workers:
Ritch Allison started, I think, a conversation that we’re all going to have to talk about. We don’t have population growth in this country. … But more importantly, he’s saying, we cut off immigration. We stopped it, but the great thing about our country is immigrants come in, they become drivers. Next thing you know they own a Domino’s, then they own several places. That’s ending. We literally have to start thinking about an immigration policy that involves taking in people.
Biden’s border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas, has already spent much of 2021 helping the CEOs and shareholders to re-inflate the cheap-labor bubble that hurt millions of Americans.
Since January, he has admitted at least 800,000 working-age migrants, and rolled back enforcement of U.S. labor law in abusive workplaces. The huge inflow has boosted the number of no-English speaking workers in Virginia and elsewhere.
But the near-term pressure is forcing food-industry CEOs to be nice to their American employees — and also to raise productivity and automate their workplaces.
“What are operators to do in an environment where they can’t find enough labor?” said Riehle. “They obviously raised the time that those workers … are working,” said.
“Consumers are seeking more technology in their restaurant experience,” he added. “They’re looking for it mainly in the ordering and payment making it easier to improve service to increase convenience … as well as expedite the experience.”
“We don’t see it getting any easier in the near future,” said Badgley, adding:
We are dealing with immigration laws. We’re dealing with the headwinds of wage inflation. We’re dealing with birth rates that are lower, we’re dealing with different generational demands, all of these things are upon us.
“What’s going on in the industry today … is historic.”
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