Posted on 06/30/2020 5:18:42 AM PDT by Kaslin
No sooner had the ink dried on President Trump’s executive order that broadened his original April 22 immigration pause to include several categories of temporary, employment-based visas, than globalists put up a collective howl. To powerful elitists like corporate lobbyists, immigration lawyers, the donor class and some in Congress, the concept that available jobs in the United States should go to American citizens or legally present immigrants is distasteful.
The visas that President Trump put on hold until the year’s end---the H-1B, the H-2B, the J-1, and the L-1---represent either a lost job that an American would do, or a missed opportunity for a citizen to get a job because of the ready availability of cheaper foreign-born labor. President Trump’s executive order means that, regardless of an American worker's skill level, he’ll have a better chance of getting hired.
Tech companies that heavily rely on the H-1B visa decried the president’s action as "short-sighted and deeply damaging to the economic strength of the United States," one that will shut out “high-skilled talent.” This commonly-made argument disregards U.S. tech workers who H-1B holders have steadily displaced. It also harms recent U.S. college graduates, some of whom have amassed substantial debt to earn their degrees. For the three decades since the Immigration Act of 1990, the H-1B has, because of corporate greed and a donor-dependent Congress, relentlessly displaced skilled U.S. tech workers. As a result, about 70% of Silicon Valley tech workers are foreign-born and doing white-collar jobs that Americans once held.
Pausing the H-2B visa represents a great chance for lower-skilled workers to get back to work. Supposedly, the visa’s intent is to fill a void in “jobs Americans won’t do.” The truth, however, is that the H-2B facilitates the entry of cheap, pliant labor that employers can mistreat. According to a 2017 Justice Department press release, the H-2B discriminates against American workers. Even the anti-Trump, expansionist New York Times conceded that guest workers are easily exploited and that employers’ worker shortage claims don’t stand up.
The J-1, also known as the Exchange Visitor Program, is another visa that has strayed from its original mission as a goodwill program, intended to foster improved international relationships, into a cheap labor vehicle. The Economic Policy Institute, a liberal-leaning, pro-immigration, Washington D.C. think tank, wrote that hundreds of thousands of workers arrive in the U. S. annually on J-1 visas without adequate protections, and thereby put at a disadvantage the countless U.S. workers struggling to find jobs in the same industries. The jobs are often in leisure categories that young Americans would eagerly do on resorts like Martha’s Vineyard Bar Harbor.
Finally, the L-1 visa allows corporations to transfer their international employees and their families from abroad to their U.S.-based offices. The domestic jobs are rarely posted. From day one, American workers are shut out even though there may be an abundance of qualified, local talent. Moreover, the L-1 has no cap, and its holders can be fast-tracked into permanent residency.
While temporarily restricting immigration is unpopular with Fortune 500 companies and the elite class, Americans support President Trump’s executive order. The Federation for American Immigration Reform commissioned a Zogby Analytics poll in swing states Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The results showed that the majority of registered voters, about 60%, said they favor less immigration during this period when nearly 45 million Americans seek productive employment.
For those 45 million unemployed U.S. workers, the stakes are high. With his executive order, President Trump made about 525,000 jobs available so that the millions of unemployed Americans will have a better opportunity to return to the payroll and earn a fair wage to support their families.
“the majority of registered voters, about 60%, said they favor less immigration during this period when nearly 45 million Americans seek productive employment.”
I hope this is made a consistent campaign point; Americans quite rightly vote their pocketbooks (not Zuckerberg’s).
With the recent lock-downs, the percentage of working-aged people who do no work is up to almost 50%. Add to that the considerable number of people that work for the government, and you have a formidable voting block. To acquire power, the Democrats, and the outright Communists for that matter, needn’t bother with the plight of “working people” anymore. That sort is in the minority.
It is around half of the state of Pennsylvania that is unemployed. It gets worse, when you realize that most of the essential jobs are low wage and part time, so for many employed people, you don’t have a Jobe that would be great to support yourself, much less family if you have family too.
Good move by PDJT ... even better would be to halt *ALL* immigration for 10 years. Of course that would be reversed by the next D administration but it would be a start. While I agree that not all jobs can be filled from a population that is 50% functionally illiterate, a moratorium on immigration would allow USA citizens who can self motivate to get education and then find jobs that can possibly move them up the financial ladder. Businesses can then put pressure on the education system so they produce better graduates.
You hit on a critical point.
Since at least 2003, according to a book I read recently, 80% of all high school graduates in the US are unable to read beyond the 4th grade level. That applies to math even more.
When I was just out of high school, 74 or so, the US ranmed 7th worldwide in education. 20 tears later, we were at #17. Sometime toward the end of president stompy feet we had drooped to # 28, around 2014 or so.
It is _NOT_ getting better. This is why so many are able to so easily come here from especially India, better educated and will work cheap...
And by the way this article mentioned Immigration act of 1990... Proposed by our old buddy Ted Kennedy and signed by Grandpa Bush himself as a last act of defiance I guess, November 1990...that’s who got us here, is anyone surprised?
i heard 28% in the African American community... and growing.
I wholeheartedly support this. In fact, one of my biggest complaints thus far had been that President Trump didn’t do more to shut down the Cheap Labor Express which he had campaigned on. From my experience, this will be universally popular among American workers.
...the H-1B, the H-2B, the J-1, and the L-1---represent either a lost job that an American would do, or a missed opportunity for a citizen to get a job because of the ready availability of cheaper foreign-born labor.
That is because of that dumbing down and lowering of scholastic standards.
Two reasons for that:
1) The PC culture, where everybody gets a price for participating. So failing a student is a no-no and grading ‘on the curve’ has become common place. They are supposed to pass you if you have attendance, and even when not so.
2) The racist liberal culture that deems typical classes too ‘marginalizing’ for ‘colored’ people. It gets so bad that some professors deem math ‘racist’ and ‘imposed by white supremacists’ What????.
Don’t they realize that assuming that minority students are not able to master the subjects being taught is extremely racist and offensive?. I grew up in Venezuela (back in the 70’s and 80’s) and I remember coming to the USA for college and realizing how far back the American students were compared to us. All of my friends were minorities and were much, much better at math, science etc. than the American freshman students. (Shame what happened to Venezuela, the same will happen here if the BLM and the socialist left wins)
All these liberal racists are doing is keeping the minority populations down, diminishing their chance of success and condemning them to life of poverty and dependence.
I am beginning think some of those liberal jerks know that and do it on purpose.
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