Posted on 08/22/2015 3:31:52 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
From Rich Lowry writing at Politico:
Donald Trump’s rise in the polls is inextricably linked to the issue of immigration.He probably wouldn’t have achieved liftoff without it, and now that his campaign has entered a new phase of semi-attempted seriousness, it is fitting that an immigration plan is the first policy proposal he has committed to paper.
There is no doubt The Donald is an accidental immigration hawk. After the 2012 election, he was scolding Mitt Romney for using the term “self-deportation” because it was too harsh. Trump’s journey is obvious: He made an inflammatory statement in his announcement speech — not quite realizing what he was getting into — and has followed the logic of the controversy to a full-throated immigration restrictionism.
His immigration plan has occasioned the predictable horror that he might pull the Republican field to the right on immigration, or that the other candidates might pander to him. Both are outcomes to be wished for, rather than avoided.
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I've got one on order.
My husband already has his. He wore it to our family reunion today. :)
Kraut waffles when Wills is not on.
I think we’ve lost Dr. K. Perhaps we never had him. I think he is all in for Bush with Rubio as his backup.
Like to have been a fly on the wall at the last editorial board meeting.
Cruz wants to increase by 500% the number of legal immigrants, while only Trump wants this the same or lowered. Cruz doesn’t care that for years, we have graduated TWICE the number of STEM educated students than can be hired among US citizens. H1-B visa holders can come in indexed to a small percentage of what US citizens make, so employers will always want this ready source of freer labor.
Cruz, why don’t you understand you are FREAKING WACKED on this? We gave you money, Ted. Why is it only Trump who gets this? Are you that entwined with your wife’s CFR/Goldman Sachs/Chamber of Commerce views that your integrity must be tainted with a false premise?
I’ll never go to another family reunion. Way too many dumb liberals in my family. Wearing a Trump hat would have caused a fight.
Plus some of the guys go to pick up chicks.
Amazing that it took All that’s happened and Trump to make some of them just use common sense. Either we have elected the stupidest people in the country or it’s on purpose. Guess it could even be both.
Thanks for the post. Lowry is a brilliant writer and thinker. His article should be read in full.
He probably wouldn’t have achieved liftoff without it, and now that his campaign has entered a new phase of semi-attempted seriousness, it is fitting that an immigration plan is the first policy proposal he has committed to paper.
And still the talking heads try so very very hard to understand why Trump has so much support. It must be anti-immigrant bias (those are illegal aliens, you moron.)
No, it is the PC crap that describes an invader who gives not one whit about our country and everything about what they can get out of it that is bouying Trump. It is trade 'deals' which gives everyone free access to our market. It is watching jobs leave, it is watching an economy continue to stumble along, it is watching millions of people leave the job market, quite probably never to return. It is watching people who have decided to hitch their wagons to the free stuff express, as government regulation has essentially eliminated them from the job market.
I know all the talking heads are so laser focused on that one issue so they don't have to ask their favorite candidates to answer questions on the topic. They are playing 'let's pretend to be an ostrich' and sticking their heads in the sand, comforted they only saw one lion in the room, not an entire pride of issues that the PC uniparty doesn't want to face.
But hey, makes it a whole lot easier to recruit more to the cause - they're the ones you show the full unedited speeches to, and they ask one question: How come none of that was on the nightly news?
Wonder if Tom Donohue was there.
The most ironic part of Trump’s announcement speech.. is that the “progressive” media thought they had Trump nailed to the wall by distorting what he said about illegal immigrants.. and they had no idea what a tidal wave of support for Trump that would result in.. If the liberal media had ignored that comment instead of trying to distort it and to take Trump down, it is hard to say where Trump would be right now..
I wonder if Rich Lowery thinks that allowing illegals to slaughter Americans is humanitarian. About twenty years ago, I lived in the Houston area, and a judge there complained twice to the media about illegal alien crime. He said that about a thousand times a month, criminals from Mexico would drive into Houston, commit crimes, and drive back to Mexico. I would assume that the problem has gotten worse. Hannity tells about the hundreds of thousands of victims in Texas alone for the past few years.
Put American Workers First
Decades of disastrous trade deals and immigration policies have destroyed our middle class. Today, nearly 40% of black teenagers are unemployed. Nearly 30% of Hispanic teenagers are unemployed. For black Americans without high school diplomas, the bottom has fallen out: more than 70% were employed in 1960, compared to less than 40% in 2000. Across the economy, the percentage of adults in the labor force has collapsed to a level not experienced in generations. As CBS news wrote in a piece entitled “America’s incredible shrinking middle class”: “If the middle-class is the economic backbone of America, then the country is developing osteoporosis.”
The influx of foreign workers holds down salaries, keeps unemployment high, and makes it difficult for poor and working class Americans – including immigrants themselves and their children – to earn a middle class wage. Nearly half of all immigrants and their US-born children currently live in or near poverty, including more than 60 percent of Hispanic immigrants. Every year, we voluntarily admit another 2 million new immigrants, guest workers, refugees, and dependents, growing our existing all-time historic record population of 42 million immigrants. We need to control the admission of new low-earning workers in order to: help wages grow, get teenagers back to work, aid minorities’ rise into the middle class, help schools and communities falling behind, and to ensure our immigrant members of the national family become part of the American dream.
Additionally, we need to stop giving legal immigrant visas to people bent on causing us harm. From the 9/11 hijackers, to the Boston Bombers, and many others, our immigration system is being used to attack us. The President of the immigration caseworkers union declared in a statement on ISIS: “We've become the visa clearinghouse for the world.”
Here are some additional specific policy proposals for long-term reform:
Increase prevailing wage for H-1Bs. We graduate two times more Americans with STEM degrees each year than find STEM jobs, yet as much as two-thirds of entry-level hiring for IT jobs is accomplished through the H-1B program. More than half of H-1B visas are issued for the program's lowest allowable wage level, and more than eighty percent for its bottom two. Raising the prevailing wage paid to H-1Bs will force companies to give these coveted entry-level jobs to the existing domestic pool of unemployed native and immigrant workers in the U.S., instead of flying in cheaper workers from overseas. This will improve the number of black, Hispanic and female workers in Silicon Valley who have been passed over in favor of the H-1B program. Mark Zuckerberg’s personal Senator, Marco Rubio, has a bill to triple H-1Bs that would decimate women and minorities.
Requirement to hire American workers first. Too many visas, like the H-1B, have no such requirement. In the year 2015, with 92 million Americans outside the workforce and incomes collapsing, we need to companies to hire from the domestic pool of unemployed. Petitions for workers should be mailed to the unemployment office, not USCIS.
End welfare abuse. Applicants for entry to the United States should be required to certify that they can pay for their own housing, healthcare and other needs before coming to the U.S.
Jobs program for inner city youth. The J-1 visa jobs program for foreign youth will be terminated and replaced with a resume bank for inner city youth provided to all corporate subscribers to the J-1 visa program.
Refugee program for American children. Increase standards for the admission of refugees and asylum-seekers to crack down on abuses. Use the monies saved on expensive refugee programs to help place American children without parents in safer homes and communities, and to improve community safety in high crime neighborhoods in the United States.
Immigration moderation. Before any new green cards are issued to foreign workers abroad, there will be a pause where employers will have to hire from the domestic pool of unemployed immigrant and native workers. This will help reverse women's plummeting workplace participation rate, grow wages, and allow record immigration levels to subside to more moderate historical averages.
Our minister is preaching on a series called “Hope Rising”. One of the scriptures tonight was from Romans 12: “We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us...if it to lead, do it diligently;...
Seems like that is what Trump is doing, at least for the time being. Interestingly, our pastor began this series just shortly after Trump announced his candidacy.
National Review Editor-in-Chief Rich Lowry writing at Politico...
Lowry starting to smell the coffee?
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