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Trump seeks deal on foreign workers that could anger base
Politico ^ | February 20th, 2020 | By ANITA KUMAR

Posted on 02/20/2020 11:40:00 AM PST by Mariner

The White House can't get its broad immigration proposal moving, so officials are pursuing a narrow deal that would please the business community but might go against the president's campaign promise to reduce overall immigration.

In recent months, the administration has been in talks with senators about legislation that would create new categories of temporary worker visas or lengthen the allotted stays for those workers, among other possible changes, according to four people familiar with the discussions.

A White House official confirmed the ongoing negotiations on the guest worker proposal and said the effort is an attempt to generate action on a smaller immigration proposal after a larger one stalled and won few adherents.

“We’ve also been listening to stakeholders,” the official said. “We’ve also developed points of view on what the temporary system should look like.”

A broadening of temporary worker visas is a policy change the business community has long sought, arguing companies in industries like construction and agriculture can't hire enough workers to meet demand. But immigration activists seeking to reduce migration worry such changes would raise the number of foreigners coming to the U.S.

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To: fortheDeclaration

Trump is NOT going to sign off on this so no worries. Just Politico (and outlet of China inc) trying to erode support for him. Excessive immigration (as we’ve had over the last 20 years) is one of the biggest concerns within his base. Additionally, the bill is question was authored by one of the impeachment managers. DOA.


61 posted on 02/20/2020 1:30:46 PM PST by StolarStorm
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To: Alberta's Child
These countries have some of the lowest birth rates in the history of human civilization.

Which doesn't mean those rates didn't get less low when they instituted their baby bonuses.

Your link did nothing to support your claim.

62 posted on 02/20/2020 1:30:57 PM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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Isn’t this what the Republican Establishment wants?


63 posted on 02/20/2020 1:34:06 PM PST by TakebackGOP
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To: TakebackGOP
Yes - because what their corporate globalist johns want is below-market-wage labor, the American way of life be damned. (And some on FR seem to take their side.)
64 posted on 02/20/2020 1:39:27 PM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: NobleFree

Americans yes. Foreigners no. MAGA


65 posted on 02/20/2020 2:15:26 PM PST by amihow
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To: amihow
Seems obvious, right? Yet some on FR seem to think it's more important that corporate globalists further fatten their wallets by paying below-market wages.
66 posted on 02/20/2020 2:17:57 PM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: Trump.Deplorable

No, I am far from every being a Bernie Bro. I am for American workers not foreign ones.

If Trump goes Foreign, he is the Bernie Bro.


67 posted on 02/20/2020 2:20:42 PM PST by amihow
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To: NobleFree

It’s disgusting but they have an obvious vested interest and America be damned. Traitors.


68 posted on 02/20/2020 2:21:30 PM PST by StolarStorm
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To: StolarStorm
they have an obvious vested interest

No other explanation suggests itself.

69 posted on 02/20/2020 2:26:47 PM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: Mariner

THE big key here is to cut H1bs.

A truly temporary guest worker program aimed at say, agriculture workers would be a lot more palatable than the previous regime of just admitting anybody and everybody, no vetting and no strings attached and give them free chit too and they stay forever.


70 posted on 02/20/2020 2:28:50 PM PST by FLT-bird
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To: Mariner

Bad, bad, bad. If as Trump argued last month that the result of his getting so many companies to move operatuins here is that we need to bring more low-ability, leftist-leaning, taxpayer-dependent immigrants here to take the jobs (and keep wages for competing Americans low), then that is a very bad deal and we would have been better off without Trump’s influence on our economy. Jared and Ivanka are the poisonous influence in Trump’s admin who pull him im the wrong direction.


71 posted on 02/20/2020 2:29:04 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Mariner

I don’t have a problem with seasonal work visas they already exit. Not sure what they are proposing that is different


72 posted on 02/20/2020 2:30:12 PM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: FLT-bird
A truly temporary guest worker program aimed at say, agriculture workers would be a lot more palatable than the previous regime

Dirt is more palatable than manure - but I don't recommend eating either. What suits my palate is paying market wages to American workers.

73 posted on 02/20/2020 2:30:22 PM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: Valpal1

We actually have far too many low-skill, leftist immigrants, both legal and illegal. We keep getting warned about how many low-skill jobs are about to be replaced by technology. Not only could we use an at least quasi-moratorium on immigrants for maybe a decade, but we also need to massively send the illegals here home AND massively improve our primary and secondary public school systems.


74 posted on 02/20/2020 2:39:43 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker

Bingo. Also need to start enforcing laws against dual citizenship. You are an American or you aren’t. Choose.


75 posted on 02/20/2020 2:43:19 PM PST by StolarStorm
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To: NobleFree
That's just one source I found without searching very hard.

Look at Quebec in that link, for heaven's sake. Their "baby bonus" was instituted more than 30 years ago in the 1980s, and if it weren't for a huge influx of Muslim immigrants from former French colonies they'd have one of the lowest birth rates anywhere in the world.

Quebec's Birth Rate Continues Downward Spiral

76 posted on 02/20/2020 5:25:46 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("Oh, but it's hard to live by the rules; I never could and still never do.")
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To: Alberta's Child

So the data on the table is:

* Quebec instituted a baby bonus (not the annual tax exemption I propose) in 1988.
* Birth rates rose from 2000 to 2012.

Not much of a case for the policy’s failure.


77 posted on 02/20/2020 6:34:05 PM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: Alberta's Child; DesertRhino

“an increase in the tax value of the personal exemption of 50 dollars will increase the general fertility rate by 6 to 12 births per 1000 women [from a base of 95.5]” - Whittington, Leslie & Alm, James & Peters, H.. (1990). Fertility and the Personal Exemption: Implicit Pronatalist Policy in the United States. The American economic review. 80. 545-56. (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/11733793_Fertility_and_the_Personal_Exemption_Implicit_Pronatalist_Policy_in_the_United_States)


78 posted on 02/20/2020 7:54:44 PM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: Mariner

Good for you - maybe all the concern trolls here can start their own site - oh....wait....DU has one waiting for Y’all


79 posted on 02/21/2020 2:33:11 AM PST by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: Mariner
Why do these RINO globalist push this crap in an election year? SELL OUT YOUR COUNTRY IN AN OFF YEAR!!!

I expect Dear Rush Limbaugh to ignore this. Sorry I love Rush but he is globalist RINO in many ways. Pray for him.

80 posted on 02/21/2020 2:44:30 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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