Explain. I’ve not been following. Why was he nominated? Why is he wrong for the job? What did the democrats/media squawk about him?
He was criticized for hiring an illegal maid and being weak of immigration, but he would not be in charge of immigration as Labor Secretary.
He would be in a position where he could influence labor regulations, and there is no one with more detailed knowledge of the ways stupid regulations destroy businesses than the president of the National Restaurant Association. Choosing him was a masterstroke by Trump.
He’s only a recent, and potentially politically motivated, convert to the Trump’s key notion that flooding the market with unskilled laborers is unfair to the supply-and-demand market forces on labor; he was a big fan of the Gang of Eight amnesty.
I have to note this, however: in double-checking my facts, I just discovered that he was a lawyer for the pro-life community before he got pulled into Hardee’s almost by accident; and that his turnaround of Hardee’s is quite remarkable. I hadn’t known that.
But his comments regarding immigration are stupefying:
“Immigrants appreciate what America offers. They are not taking jobs from Americans, because there are not sufficient Americans applying for jobs. Maybe they feel they have better options.”
That was in 2013, when the U-6 unemployment rate was about 14%.