Biden’s easy-migration policies are deliberately adding the foreigners’ problems to the lengthening list of Americans’ problems — homelessness, low wages, a shrinking middle class, slowing innovation, declining blue-collar life expectancy, spreading poverty, the rising death toll from drugs, and the growing alienation of young people
Labor Day: Joe Biden Looks to Add Half a Million Foreigners to Workforce as 44M Americans Remain on Sidelines
President Joe Biden is projected to hugely boost the foreign-born workforce in the United States, adding about half a million to fill American jobs while tens of millions of Americans remain out of the labor market entirely.
The sad truth behind job growth in the American economy
According to Axios, a left-leaning publication, the only thing keeping the American economy afloat is the blessed presence of foreign-born workers…because those lazy Americans just won’t work. However, according to a study by Zero Hedge, Americans are losing their jobs like crazy, and only foreign-born workers are getting those jobs. Who to believe? Who to believe?
Immigrants are joining the U.S. workforce at much higher levels than normal.
- They're likely to account for roughly half a million new jobs over the next three quarters, per a new report from Goldman Sachs.
Why it matters: As the U.S. continues to struggle with a historically-tight labor market, immigrants are coming to the rescue of desperate employers — while also creating new jobs themselves.
By the numbers: Between the pre-pandemic month of January 2020 and July 2023, the immigrant labor force grew by 9.5%. That compares to a tiny 1.5% growth rate among the native-born.
Axios points to three factors behind the data: First, huge numbers of legal immigrants are getting visas. As I see it, that means the Biden administration is flooding the American economy with foreign-born workers.
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Second, foreign-born workers are, in fact, working, with their participation rate at 67% compared to actual Americans, who are at 62.2%. Third, baby boomers are retiring, and younger people are more likely to be foreign-born.
As Axios proudly states of immigrants, “We get the job done.”
The Zero Hedge article is behind a paywall, but Gateway Pundit summarizes the top line: It wasn’t just that American-born workers were lying around on couches smoking pot and playing video games, although, sadly, I’m sure that a lot were. It’s also that 1.2 million of them lost their jobs. Of those 1.2 million lost jobs, foreign workers replaced 771,000 of them.
Was it a direct one-to-one replacement? I don’t know. But it appears that 1.2 million Americans wanted to work, but their employers didn’t want them. Instead, a great many employers preferred 771,000 foreign-born workers.
Those statistics also probably tell only the tale of legal foreign-born workers. They don’t talk about the low-level workers (gardeners, janitors, etc.), who are often paid under the table, whether legal or not. I suspect that a lot of those jobs are now in the hands of non-natives, too.
As I alluded to above, there’s also a problem with young American workers. Many are not interested, with TikTok awash in videos of young Americans complaining about the intolerable burden of having to hold a job. These same young people are also graduates of high schools that focused hard on DEI and gender identity but forgot to teach them basic reading, writing, and ‘rithmetic. Many foreign-born workers still believe in the male-female binary and can do addition and subtraction. They may even feel that you can get through the day without lighting up a joint.
We are in a terrible mess. Our education system de-educates young people, leaving them unfit for work. Our social policies have led to negative population growth among native-born Americans. And the current administration is desperate to replace American workers with people who will be grateful to the political party that let them in and who invariably come from nations with governments that are some variation of leftist, so they’re receptive to the leftist way of doing things.
AFL-CIO Leader Backs Biden’s Wage-Cutting Migration Drive
The top leaders of U.S. labor unions expect to recruit President Joe Biden’s migrants and give Democrats the political power to force economic concessions from CEOs and investors.
Public concern about mass migration is not a pocketbook problem but is a “culture wars” distraction created by billionaires, said Liz Shuler, the president of the AFL–CIO.
She spoke in an August 29 address shortly before Labor Day:
For generations now, the richest people and companies in this country have divided us—along the lines of race, of gender, of sexual orientation, of immigration status. Even worse, they convinced us to divide ourselves. While we fought the culture wars with each other … they made off with billions of dollars that our hard work created.
“An [legal or illegal] immigrant does not stand between you and a good job — a billionaire does,” Shuler insisted, despite the reality that business interests favor worker-replacement migration, and despite her promise to push “culture wars” issues, such as abortion and library books.
Shuler did not use her speech to oppose the White House’s policy of bussing more cheap and compliant foreign workers into U.S. jobs, even though nearly all prior AFL-CIO leaders opposed migration expansions.
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Her passivity ensures CEOs feel little pressure to either listen to unions, invest in labor-saving, productivity-boosting technology, or raise wages for their easily-replaced American employees.
The silence is notable because wages rise, families prosper, and politicians gain in the polls in the states where GOP officials resist migration.
“The immigrants with legal status are in high demand, and they know it … [and] they want top dollar,” said Murrie Mehrer, the owner of a small landscaping firm in Lakeland, Florida, where the legislature recently curbed the hiring of illegals. She added:
When you do find one, they want top dollar … [and] when you find someone that has all the credentials, get ready to pay them close to $200 per day.
“He used to pay painters $18-$20 an hour,” said a USA Today report on June 21 about the owner of a construction company in Naples, Florida. “Now, he’s paying $30-$35 … ‘I have to adapt,’ he said.”
The White House’s investor-backed jobs policy transports millions of wage-cutting foreign workers across the 50-state union line along the U.S. border.
“As our economy grows, we need workers that we just don’t have enough of,” White House manager Katie Tobin said in May 2023. “It is in our interest to bring people in and to stay competitive globally,” said Tobin, who was the senior director for transborder security on the National Security Council.
“The issue of immigration is how do we make sure that companies and businesses have the opportunity to employ people,” then-secretary Marty Walsh told Fox Business in December 2022.
Shuler is backing those corporate-backed cheap-labor migration policies. “We will turn out next year for President Biden in the most historic labor mobilization of our time!” she said.
The AFL-CIO policy statement on migration endorses economic migration and even amnesty:
The only way to stop the race to the bottom in wages and standards is for working people of all races, religions and immigration status [including legal and illegal migrants] to stand together and demand an end to policies that put profits over people. The entire workforce suffers when millions [of illegals] struggle to support their families without a way to speak up on the job, and ramping up fear in our workplaces [y immigration enforcement] only serves to increase exploitation.
Instead of deporting immigrants, we need to ensure that all working people have rights on the job and are able to exercise them without fear of retaliation.
Shuler backs the high-migration policies in part because she expects a political reward from Biden in exchange for accepting the massive replacement of older, sick, and alienated U.S. workers by younger, healthier, and indebted migrants.
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Biden’s pending reward is a larger role for the progressive-run unions in the companies that accept government spending, for example on climate-related spending programs. She said:
There are historic investments—trillions of dollars — coming down the pike, thanks to President Biden — an investment that is happening because our labor movement pushed for decades. That means MILLIONS of jobs. The question now is: What kind of jobs will they be?
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We are organizing those jobs already. Up and down our coasts, where offshore wind is taking off. In the Deep South, where EV bus factories are being built. Making sure the standard is set: These are good union jobs.
Biden’s deputies are also rewarding unions by encouraging illegal migrants to join unions.
Yet Shuler said little about wage gains for union members or ordinary Americans.
Instead, she promised to achieve the progressive goal of reducing the wage differences among union members from the many different identity groups that progressives are creating and importing:
Remember those wage disparities [between identity groups] I mentioned? The union difference is what solves them. It’s what cuts into that gender pay gap … A younger worker, an older worker, it’s better in a union. Black, White, Hispanic, AAPI, Indigenous, it’s better in a union. Immigrant or fifth generation American, it’s better in a union. LGBTQ+. It’s better in a union. Unions are how we drive real, lasting change.
Union leaders are “going to be a 24/7, 365 political force” for progressive causes such as climate and abortion, she said, adding, and “our right to read the books we want to read.”
Her progressive alliance with globalist investors is sharply different from the view of young GOP leaders.
“This country has prioritized the importation of cheap labor,” including cheap legal immigrants, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fl) said in his 2023 book, titled Decades of Decadence: How Our Spoiled Elites Blew America’s Inheritance of Liberty, Security, and Prosperity.
Rubio continued:
Across this country today, the immigration system has been corrupted and exploited. And it began, as many of America’s problems do, with the fundamental shift toward a globalized economy.
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But not every business could be exported, which meant Wall Street simply figured out how to import cheap labor, much of it [clarification, not all] coming from illegal immigrants. This was a slower, more subtle process. Sure, some politicians made a big deal about “jobs Americans wouldn’t do,” but otherwise the only outcry came from workers who found their wages stalled, benefits cut, and hours slashed until they could be replaced by someone willing to work more hours for less.
More often than not, it is about jobs Wall Street doesn’t want Americans to do because hiring Americans would require higher wages and better working conditions. To them, it is better to import cheap labor and buy off Americans with cash welfare programs provided by the government.
Biden’s policy of Extraction Migration has added at least four million foreign workers as it tries to reinflate the cheap-labor bubble.
That flood of migrants was urged and welcomed by business groups because it cuts Americans’ blue-collar wages and white-collar salaries. It also reduces marketplace pressure to invest in productivity-boosting technology, Heartland states, and overseas markets, and it reduces economic pressure on the federal government to deal with the drug and “Deaths of Despair” crises.
Biden’s easy-migration policies are deliberately adding the foreigners’ problems to the lengthening list of Americans’ problems — homelessness, low wages, a shrinking middle class, slowing innovation, declining blue-collar life expectancy, spreading poverty, the rising death toll from drugs, and the growing alienation of young people
Massachusetts: Migrants Will Not Be Housed at Yarmouth Resort
Migrants will not be housed at the Yarmouth Resort in Massachusetts after locals protested the move, which would have pushed out paying residents.
Over the weekend, reports surfaced that the offices of Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey (D) told local officials in Yarmouth that migrant families will not be housed in the 80-100 rooms at the Yarmouth Resort.
The move comes after local residents strongly protested the push to house migrants at the Yarmouth Resort, which typically housed resident workers who paid weekly rent. Prior to the proposal, the Yarmouth Resort reportedly began to dramatically hike rent prices in order to push paying residents out, a claim that the owners denied. After initial outcry, the proposed rent hikes were dropped. Per the Cape Code Times:
The weekly rents at a Route 28 condo-motel where workers live may not be going up after all.
One of the owners of Yarmouth Resort has denied hiking weekly rates from $300 to $700, as of the end of July, and said notes to tenants announcing the increase were not approved.
“There was a communication gap. Somebody without final approval sent it out,” co-owner Ashok Patel said on Monday by phone.
“The protesters, mostly local residents, tell me they’re ‘horrified’ the state and hotel owners are forcing American citizens out of housing for illegal immigrants,” former news anchor Tim Dunn wrote on Twitter.
“With the protest growing, a local police officer has been staged near the scene to ensure peace and public safety. No signs at all so far of any disapproval of the protest, and mainly just honking horns passing by showing support for the demonstrators,” he added.
The migrant crisis in the state of Massachusetts has reached emergency levels, with non-profit organizations being stretched thin.
Right now, the non-profits that are in Massachusetts are stretched and so thin they cannot provide any more staff,” Democrat state Sen. Jamie Eldridge told CBS News.
Gov. Maura Healey even activated the National Guard to support the crisis.
“We’re grateful to the brave men and women of the National Guard for stepping up to help us ensure that every family in emergency shelter has their needs met,” Healey wrote.
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llegal Immigration in the Rust Belt: Ohio Residents Say ‘Enough Is Enough’ After Death of 11-Year-Old Aiden Clark
Residents in Springfield, Ohio, are sounding the alarm over illegal immigration in their community as Breitbart News revealed that an illegal alien is accused of causing a school bus accident that left 11-year-old Aiden Clark dead on his first day of school.
Hermanio Joseph, a 35-year-old illegal alien from Haiti, has been formally charged with aggravated vehicular homicide in the death of Aiden Clark, who was on his way to his first day of school when his school bus was hit and ultimately overturned.
According to police, Aiden Clark was killed after being ejected from the bus. Joseph’s bail was increased to $150,000 this week. Joseph arrived at the United States-Mexico border in August 2022 and was released into the U.S. interior after being given a Notice to Appear (NTA).
Early last week, residents attended a city council meeting to express their anger, disgust, sadness, and concerns to local elected officials. A number of residents expressed outrage over the arrival of thousands of Haitian illegal aliens like Joseph in their community even as Mayor Warren Copeland sought to repeatedly interrupt them.
“I watched them come in on buses … I don’t know how they got them here and I don’t know who is responsible,” one woman said. “Did we become a sanctuary city? The people want to know.”
Elected officials said multiple times that the city is not a sanctuary city for illegal aliens. Some residents said they want to see a referendum on their local ballot to clarify that Springfield is not a sanctuary city.
“There are people who are here who are not native Springfielders … the disenfranchisement of people who were born here, have lived here, have raised their kids, have lived here for 30+ years, and I’m one of them, and we’re feeling disrespected,” the woman said.
Another woman took to the podium to say that her grandchildren were on the school bus with Aiden Clark.
“I’m not only here for [my grandchildren], I’m here for every child that was on that school bus,” the grandmother said. “… what are we going to do to stop this? … how many more children are going to have … to die or be hurt? My grandchildren will probably go through counseling for quite some time.”
“If it was your child … I would be pounding down the door saying ‘What are we doing?’ … it needs to be, if you break the law, you’re going back,” another woman said.
According to multiple residents who spoke, two Haitian illegal aliens were involved in crashes following the fatal school bus accident.
“We have kids that live in our neighborhoods,” one man told the council, complaining that Haitian illegal aliens are driving the wrong way down many streets in town on a daily basis. “Enough is enough.”
Other residents said the issue of illegal immigration goes beyond crime. Their other concern is the cost of housing and rents as landlords seek to take advantage of more demand by raising prices significantly — pricing out locals.
“We cannot afford it,” a woman said, explaining that her rent is being raised as a result of the arrival of Haitian illegal aliens and out-of-state landlords’ cash-grab scheme.
“Are we just letting these landlords take advantage of these people and charge them all this rent and raise our rents?” a man asked the council. “… I’m saying it is unfair to them as well.”
One resident with a local nonprofit said the illegal immigration to Springfield specifically from Haiti is wreaking havoc on their limited resources. In one anecdote, she said that translation costs for the nonprofit totaled $4,000 in 2018 but by last year, the costs had jumped to $344,000.
“This is not sustainable,” she said.
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