Posted on 03/05/2016 6:01:11 PM PST by ConservingFreedom
NumbersUSA has announced to the media that we have downgraded Donald Trump on our Worker-Protection Immigration Grade Cards based on his statements in the last two debates that suggest the country has a labor shortage in a couple of categories that he indicates need foreign workers.
Since we began issuing the grades last spring, we have encouraged all of you to use them to push your favorite candidate(s) to improve their immigration positions.
For those of you who are Trump supporters, I urge you to use the information provided in this newsletter to push Trump to improve and to stop slipping on the issue that above all others catapulted him into the nomination lead.
ADMITS HE IS GOING "SOFT"
Trump acknowledged in Thursday night's Fox News debate that he has changed his position and now sides with Silicon Valley titans who claim America isn't producing enough high-tech workers.
Yet, there is no new evidence that anything has changed from previous reports that America has a glut of trained high-tech workers.
Fox's Megyn Kelly noted that his concern for Silicon Valley sounded at odds with his previous positions against businesses preferring foreign workers for high-skilled jobs.
"(KELLY) So you're abandoning the position on your website . . . "
"(TRUMP) I'm changing it, and I'm softening the position because we have to have talented people in this country. . . . People go to the best colleges. They'll go to Harvard, they'll go to Stanford. They'll go to Wharton. As soon as they're finished, they'll get shoved out. They want to stay in this country. They want to stay here desperately. They're not able to stay here. For that purpose, we absolutely have to be able to keep the brain power in this country."
After Thursday night's debate, the Trump campaign issued a statement to clarify that the candidate has not changed his position against H-1B temporary visas for high-tech workers.. Neither he nor the Fox moderator had referred specifically to the H-1B visas in their exchange in the debate.
But his comments about helping Silicon Valley were even worse than if they had been about temporary visas because he was referring to lifetime work permits to be given to foreign students as they graduate from U.S. universities.
Trump's debate comments were still unsettling Michelle Malkin and John Miano when Chris and I sat down with them Friday afternoon. They have written a powerful book, "Sold Out," that refutes almost everything that the Silicon Valley titans have claimed about their need for more foreign tech workers. Next week, we'll begin providing you video clips from our conversation.
APPEASING JOBLESSNESS AMONG YOUNGER LESS-EDUCATED AMERICANS
Trump also repeated his claim of last week's debate that there aren't enough Americans willing to do entry-level seasonal jobs in hotels and resorts, justifying visa programs that import low-skilled foreign workers even though less-educated younger Americans who would be most likely to fill such jobs have horrendous unemployment rates.
These seasonal jobs are exactly the kind of jobs needed by younger Americans who haven't been able to find a first-rung of the labor force ladder. Without the Band-Aid of foreign-worker programs, businesses would be forced to create effective recruitment channels into communities of extremely high non-workforce participation.
I'm not so much bothered that Trump's businesses legally use the foreign visa programs for hospitality workers as I am that he isn't pledging to curtail everybody's use of the programs for the good of the country.
THE LATEST CHANGES FROM OUR GRADING COMMITTEE
Our Grading Committee met Friday morning, as we have nearly every week since last May, and weighed all recent candidate statements.
After steadily rising from a "C" grade last spring to an "A-minus" grade, Trump has taken a step backwards to a "B+" with his statements about worker visas at the high and low end.
Ted Cruz has recently provided solid reinforcement of his positions that earned him a straight "A" grade as the candidate who favors immigration policies that would be the most helpful to struggling American workers and their families.
Our Committee raised Marco Rubio's grade from a "D" to a "D+".
We retained the worker-protection grades for John Kasich (D), Hillary Clinton (D-minus) and Bernie Sanders (F-minus).
TRUMP REMAINS 'GOOD' TO 'EXCELLENT' IN MOST CATEGORIES
Although Mr. Trump's latest immigration comments have been disconcerting, especially in last night's debate, we determined that they only affected one category ("protect against unfair work visa competition") of the ten immigration issues we rate.
Mr. Trump's overall positions still indicate a presidency that would be a huge improvement for American workers in terms of immigration policy. He continues to earn a VERY GOOD or EXCELLENT rating in six categories, a GOOD rating in one, a 1st STEPS in one, and he has no position on two categories (Chain Migration and the Visa Lottery).
Any waffling and flexibility on deportations and the wall by Mr. Trump had already been factored into our ratings long ago based on earlier ambiguous or conflicting statements. His overall positions on the "border" remain Very Good and on "interior enforcement" remain Excellent.
All ratings and grades for all remaining candidates can be found at: https://www.numbersusa.com/content/elections/races/presidential/2016-presidential-hopefuls.html
Personally, if I were a manager, and someone coming for an entry level job mentioned honestly that he or she had worked menial jobs and done them honorably enough to not incur spectacular trouble, I would see that as a positive spiritual factor. This is the rudiments, in fact, of the old rags to riches story.
- March 03, 2016 -
Donald J. Trump Position on Visas
“Megyn Kelly asked about highly-skilled immigration. The H-1B program is neither high-skilled nor immigration: these are temporary foreign workers, imported from abroad, for the explicit purpose of substituting for American workers at lower pay. I remain totally committed to eliminating rampant, widespread H-1B abuse and ending outrageous practices such as those that occurred at Disney in Florida when Americans were forced to train their foreign replacements. I will end forever the use of the H-1B as a cheap labor program, and institute an absolute requirement to hire American workers first for every visa and immigration program. No exceptions.”
Stop supporting all the leeches and eventually there would be plenty of workers - but that takes time to train them to be useful and productive citizens (hunger and lack of amenities may be a bit of a help). That's a good part of why Trump mirrors Cruz and Rubio in this area that we all dislike.
Fixed.
In a country of 320 million, with 100 million able bodied not working, anyone that tells you there is a worker shortage is FOS.
"Worker shortage" talk is the talk of a gloBULList.
Why don’t you move to India and dig on the groovy spiritual vib real time? We could probably have a mini freepathon to raise the air far for your sorry a$$.
You are embarrassing twit, go away.
Who made you king of this place?
Hey it isn’t the FIRST time that God used rank pagans to tell the devout believers where they ought to be!
Just this morning the pastor preached from the book of Jonah on just this.
Guess who was sleeping in the boat? Jonah.
Guess who was the cause of the storm? Jonah.
Guess who asked Jonah to pray to “his god”? A pagan ship captain.
Guess who figured out that Jonah was big trouble? A bunch of pagans on board the ship.
Guess who made an offering to the Lord after casting Jonah overboard? Yup, those pagans.
Are you embarrassed? Well you might look at yourself in a mirror for the reason.
And in the meantime, guess who the “new adulteresses” are who are getting into the kingdom of God before you are...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RHhxwG-__8
Of course they say that - it's their excuse for undercutting American wages with foreign serfs.
And you think it embarrassing?
I think it’s so FUNNY!
God has a marvelous sense of humor.
Of course Jesus said that if His people would not praise, He would raise praises up from the stones.
Folks... get serious about Christ again. This is more than darkening the door of a church. This is about allowing Christ to light up your life.
Folks... a clearer case of a people spurning the grace of God, I could not see.
Or worse, we could get more left-of-center government. We really do not know for sure how Trump will govern. Maybe he will be a man of his word and stick with conservatism.
But this seems a lot like Bush’s claim he had to suspend free markets to save the free markets. Or, even worse, it is like Pelosi’s argument that we had to vote for the Obamacare bill to see what was in it.
Amen!
Thanks for your comment Musicman!
Which is also topical here. God has got me on a roll.
Yep there is soi-disant “conservative” political correctness too. It just means being filled with yourself. The age old sin of Eden. Knowing good and evil (privately).
If it takes PAGANS to illustrate this truth... it does. God has to be chuckling in heaven. Look how smart YOU thought you were, holy folks! Now let Me bring someone on the scene who actually has some idea of My grace. Who attributes more true things to Me than you have been in your churches! Now watch him eat your lunch.
And how have I proved where their hearts are?
Simple. I shared the gospel with them. BAM! It’s accepted with eagerness. I didn’t even want to do it at first. I didn’t want to wreck my job. So many soi-disant Christians got absolutely cross at me for mentioning the cross. But finally circumstances encouraged me, little by little... and it’s like, what on earth was I hiding?!?
Folks... God wants to do you a favor. In all kinds of flavors. But you are too proud to accept it.
You’re going to be behind the karma eight-ball as long as you are that way. While these pagans will get out from behind it at the very mention of the gospel!
What would you call a karma-beater? A champ? In 20-20 hindsight that door of witness was open to me YEARS ago and I didn’t even see it then. FINALLY... I see it.
Jesus is the champ and He was with me all the time... I just didn’t realize it.
Well I would agree, circumstances have forced our hand. It looks more and more like the Trump train is the only plausible train out of Doomland, and the lack of choice is getting us nervous. We can’t plan our destiny here. It looks like do or die.
But maybe it’s the answer to desperate prayer which FINALLY, at LONG LAST, was raised in response to the not four, but eight shocking years of Barack Obama.
I can understand being chary at it. Outwardly the similarity is too close to be ignored.
But I believe God knows what He is doing. If America was, in effect, praying to the devil before this (the devil of false self sufficiency), it reaped Obama as an answer. But now if America has been praying to God, it may be reaping Trump as an answer.
Groovy spiritual vibe?
Well how about ohmmmmmmmmmmm... as in resistance. To the tyrants of hell who are telling you that you can’t budge from where you are, there’s no God of amazing grace, and all that yada yada....
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God’s humor is so absolutely FUNNY. You never thought God could make a joke could you. Or that He could stoop to the “lowest form of humor.” If you actually read the bible prophets and consult the Hebrew lexicon, you’ll see God flouting those smarty pants holy people over and over again with His puns.
was just thinking that years ago, you could work in IT while you want to college for a STEM degree (or, not even get a STEM degree but still work in some part of IT) because companies were willing to train smart people.
I think those entry level jobs are gone and no one really learns IT from the ground up anymore. It’s really a pity. Lots of lost knowledge.
You don't believe federal interference and taxation contributes to companies moving business out of the country? Or, that the big push towards putting as many people as possible on the "government teat" has caused a huge drop in willingness to work or work ethics in those that will work?
Like the story about the guy asking for a job and when the owner says he'll give him a try, asks what the job pays. The owner says, "I'll pay you what you're worth". The man responds, "I can't live on that".
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