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Trump Expected to Tap Labor Secretary Who Prefers Foreign Labor to American Workers
Brietbart ^ | 12/9/16 | Julia Hahn

Posted on 12/09/2016 3:50:44 AM PST by DoodleDawg

President-elect Donald J. Trump is expected to name as his Labor Secretary fast food executive Andy Puzder, who stands diametrically opposed to Trump’s signature issues on trade and immigration — which won him the election. Puzder is the chief executive of CKE Restaurants, which includes Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s.

Advocates for American wage-earners say that Puzder as Secretary of Labor is alarming because he will be in charge of enacting policies that directly impact American workers, whom Puzder believes are “unwilling” to do certain jobs. Puzder has suggested that available U.S. jobs should instead be filled by imported foreign labor.

Puzder has even gone so far as to suggest that he prefers foreign laborers to native-born American workers because foreign nationals are more grateful and have a better “attitude.”

“The fact is that there are jobs in this country that U.S. citizens, for whatever reason, are reluctant or unwilling to perform,” he said in a 2013 Politico op-ed in which he advocated for expansionist immigration policies.

As the Washington Post reported, Puzder suggested that flipping burgers is one such job Americans simply won’t do:

“Andrew Puzder, head of the California-based Hardee’s fast-food chain, said his business is a good fit for immigrants because they are willing to start at the bottom and work up…

“Immigrants appreciate what America offers,” Puzder said during a recent visit to Washington to lobby for immigration reform. “They are not taking jobs from Americans, because there are not sufficient Americans applying for jobs. Maybe they feel they have better options.”

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; cabinet; labor; laborsecretary; laborsecy; puzder; trump; trumpcabinet; trumptransition
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Almost any other site and I might question it. But Breitbart has been in Trump's corner all along. I hope he can keep Puzder in line.
1 posted on 12/09/2016 3:50:44 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

As labor secretary, his immigration views are irrelevant.


2 posted on 12/09/2016 3:53:33 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (Socialists want YOUR wealth redistributed, never THEIRS!)
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To: DoodleDawg

Secretary of Labor can’t really do jack in regards to policy related to illegals and I’m sure Trump/Sessions will keep him in check.

That said, I am surprised this is coming from Breitbart.


3 posted on 12/09/2016 3:54:36 AM PST by Voluntaryist
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To: DoodleDawg

He is on the labor express.


4 posted on 12/09/2016 3:56:41 AM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election!)
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To: DoodleDawg

And since when don’t we appreciate LEGAL immigrants?

His view has nothing to do with ILLEGAL ALIENS


5 posted on 12/09/2016 3:56:56 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: DoodleDawg
“Andrew Puzder, head of the California-based Hardee’s fast-food chain, said his business is a good fit for immigrants because they are willing to start at the bottom and work up…

“Immigrants appreciate what America offers,” Puzder said during a recent visit to Washington to lobby for immigration reform. “They are not taking jobs from Americans, because there are not sufficient Americans applying for jobs. Maybe they feel they have better options.”

I've got cousins' kids who prove this.
Small town in west Michigan. Seems every fast food joint has a sign up saying they're hiring. Usually starting at $9.

They think they should all start at $12

6 posted on 12/09/2016 3:57:17 AM PST by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: DoodleDawg

....I found out by yesterday from someone I know who installs drywall just how much illegals are demanding for manual labor “day work”....
In this case moving two hundred sheets of drywall
from a garage to indoors...$15 per hour


7 posted on 12/09/2016 3:58:46 AM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: Nifster

We don’t need LEGAL immigrants to take jobs for which we have plenty of qualified Americans who have been idled.


8 posted on 12/09/2016 4:02:12 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: SauronOfMordor

“The fact is that there are jobs in this country that U.S. citizens, for whatever reason, are reluctant or unwilling to perform,” he said in a 2013 Politico op-ed...

How ####ing irrelevant is that?

We gonna squeeze our eyes shut again like during Bush?

Doesn’t make one a traitor to Trump to question picks.

Geez...


9 posted on 12/09/2016 4:02:55 AM PST by dp0622 (IThe only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: dp0622

And no, there are NO ####ing jobs some American isn’t willing to do.

Or should be forced to do if on welfare.


10 posted on 12/09/2016 4:03:35 AM PST by dp0622 (IThe only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Nifster

Don’t cloud the issue with facts! Legal, illegal; everyone knows true conservatives hate all immigrants and “people of color.”


11 posted on 12/09/2016 4:04:06 AM PST by antidisestablishment ( We few, we happy few, we basket of deplorables)
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To: mountn man

In the past we would view this through the prism of supply and demand, and wages for that work would probably move up to $12/hour if that is what an employer had to offer to get workers. Circumventing the law of supply & demand by bringing in legal immigrants to keep those wages down is disgraceful and WRONG.

Do you know what $9/hour gets you today?

I’m not even supporting a higher minimum wage; just let the market dictate it (without screwing around with the market by importing $9 workers from abroad).


12 posted on 12/09/2016 4:05:01 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: DoodleDawg
With any cabinet secretary appointment, the chief question is whether or not the nominee can and will carry out the president's policies. The cabinet secretaries, of course, also fill the role of an advisor on decisions relevant to their jobs.

The point of view that Puzder espoused in that 2013 op-ed is commonly believed. It is not a disqualifier in and of itself. But Puzder must have assured President-elect Trump that he will carry out Trump's vision and policies. Otherwise I highly doubt that Puzder would have been nominated.

13 posted on 12/09/2016 4:05:59 AM PST by Avalon Memories (Deplorables of the world, unite!)
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To: Voluntaryist

Julia Hahn wrote this piece. She is the best writer we have when it comes to immigration issues. Not good if this is Trump’s choice.


14 posted on 12/09/2016 4:06:21 AM PST by kabar
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To: kearnyirish2

When you take away or reduce the dependents we have now they will be forced to get up off thier a##es and go to work. The reason Illegal and legals are taking these jobs is because the rats have been coddling the lazy for years


15 posted on 12/09/2016 4:06:51 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: ronnie raygun

That would certainly help; right now a fast-food worker ends up living in the same tenement as the Welfarians, and his kids go to the same school as theirs. The only difference between the two in terms of end result is one is tired...


16 posted on 12/09/2016 4:09:11 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: DoodleDawg
Just big business men wanting cheap labor.

This is the way it has always been and will always be until the American people walk to the border and SHUT IT DOWN.

Keeping my promise list. Will not really go active until 01/21/17 #TEXIT is still a great solution

17 posted on 12/09/2016 4:09:14 AM PST by eartick (Been to the line in the sand and liked it, but ready to go again)
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To: DoodleDawg

Everyone should read Sundance analysis at CTH.


18 posted on 12/09/2016 4:10:36 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Democracy is the backup QB to a dictatorship)
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To: mountn man
I've got cousins' kids who prove this. Small town in west Michigan. Seems every fast food joint has a sign up saying they're hiring. Usually starting at $9. They think they should all start at $12

I bet if mommy and daddy would kick them out of the basement, take away their credit card, quit paying for their phones, quit making their car payments, quit putting gas in vehicle that 9 bucks an hour would look pretty good real quick.

Not societies fault, mommies and daddies need to pull the tit out of these babies mouths and kick their a$$es to the curb.

They are part of the entitlement generation where they think they are entitled to what they WANT and not what they have to EARN.

This is why this country will never recover. These families are raising a bunch of spoiled brats and need to kick some butt /rant off

19 posted on 12/09/2016 4:16:42 AM PST by eartick (Been to the line in the sand and liked it, but ready to go again)
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To: DoodleDawg

It’s stupid illogic from the freak out at everything corner of the right.

It’s what our side is best at, and it’s why we haven’t won jack until Trump came along.

Swear to Christ sometimes there seems to be no media that doesn’t have these shoot off their mouth types.


20 posted on 12/09/2016 4:18:09 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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