Posted on 01/15/2018 8:30:45 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
They clean federal office buildings in Washington and nurse older people in Boston. They are rebuilding hurricane-wrecked Houston. And working on the Atlanta Falcons’ new stadium. The plumbing and heating systems at Fannie Mae’s new headquarters, the porterhouse at Peter Luger Steak House and even the Disney World experience have all depended, in small part or large, on their labor.
They are the immigrants from Haiti and Central America who have staked their livelihoods on the temporary permission they received years ago from the government to live and work in the United States. Hundreds of thousands now stand to lose that status under the Trump administration, which said Monday that roughly 200,000 immigrants from El Salvador would have to leave by September 2019 or face deportation.
Even if they remain in the United States illegally, they, like the young immigrants whose status also is in jeopardy this winter, will lose their work permits, potentially scratching more than 1 million people from the legal workforce in a matter of months. And the U.S. companies that employ them will be forced to look elsewhere for labor — if they can get it at all.
The Trump administration has emphasized that the permissions were originally granted because of wars and natural disasters in the immigrants’ home countries and intended to last only until conditions there improved. But in reality, their permissions have been extended so long that they have become indefinite residents, often buying homes and raising U.S.-born children, even though their status offers no path to citizenship.
They, like other unauthorized immigrants, have become indispensable parts of certain industries, taking jobs that employers say no one else will and that immigration restrictionists say could attract Americans if companies were willing to pay more.
(Excerpt) Read more at dispatch.com ...
Trump is known as the master of the deal. Part of that is knowing what chips you have to play. This group represents a powerful chip two ways.
It is important to remember that this group did not break the law to get into the country. They entered and stayed legally. As a bargaining chip they offer the opportunity to establish and enforce guidelines. If they assimilated and are productive, grant them green cards and a path to citizenship. If they meet the highest standards, that path could be expedited. This creates a framework and example for merit based immigration. It also demonstrates the benefits to the immigrant of assimilating. This group will tend to be more conservative and not automatically add voters to the Democrats rolls.
Second, they are a control group who have been in the country for years. They should be productive and assimilated. If they haven’t learned English and their children become literate, have relied on government benefits, been lawless or otherwise a drain on the country, remove them. This is the other half of establishing standards for assimilation and example of what failure to assimilate means. This is also the group that the Democrats are looking to for future voters.
It is easy to say kick them out. It is smarter to understand what chips you have to play and play them wisely. Trump knows how to play the chips he has. Cancelling their status but allowing a long transition time for it to play out was brilliant.
Can't they clean offices, polish floors, handle mail, lick and stuff envelopes? All the myriad tasks, if shown how, with a lot of patience, the ones any child could do, if a child had the strength...
I know it would take at least a year to retrain a Poly-Sci major, but we had the otherwise useless Department of Education. Maybe it's time to re-purpose them, if we can't dump the department, completely.
Might they be deporting crime and drugs as they go?
Another benefit of controlling immigration is the elites carelessness with education - especially higher education. If they can’t bring in educated workers, they may begin to care about our failing educational institutions.
In related news:
As many as 1 million jobs could be created for American citizens once those leeches are deported.
They should send them home but also send enough funds to start businesses, clean up crews, construction workers can help rebuild Haiti. What happened to all the money that was collected after the hurricanes?
so basically there was a conspiracy to keep americans unemployed (african americans hardest hit) to transfer jobs and money overseas to foreigners but it was okay because it mostly happens on american soil, and the press defends it because... wait, I don’t think they clearly even definded their defense. What was the rationale again?
Deport them ALL! Deport them NOW!
“The plumbing and heating systems at Fannie Mae’s new headquarters, the porterhouse at Peter Luger Steak House and even the Disney World experience have all depended, in small part or large, on their labor.”
Jobs with which American adults supported in the past.
2.) If they earned good money and banked some of it, they can take it with them and they profited by their stay here. That money will go much further at home where the cost of living is lower.
3.) If they were unable to send money home or bank it because the cost of living is so high that all they could do was break even every month, we basically fooled them into doing jobs that Americans used to do, only for much less money. In that case, they were taken vile advantage of and should be glad to go home. If nothing else, hopefully they gained work experience and/or got some education here that they can use at home.
“American adults raised families in the past”
That’s a great point; if we couldn’t just open the spigot of foreign workers, the US education system would be fixed IMMEDIATELY. Not by the criminal enterprises known as teachers’ unions, but by industries themselves.
I’m sure our welfare-section 8-EBT folks will be lining up anxious to take up the slack! < /sarc >
"They are rebuilding hurricane-wrecked Houston. And working on the Atlanta Falcons’ new stadium. The plumbing and heating systems at Fannie Mae’s new headquarters, the porterhouse at Peter Luger Steak House and even the Disney World experience..."
Copy-and-pasted the old phrase from the old playbook one time too many. "No one else" will build a steakhouse? Do plumbing? Install HVAC? Houses? Neither Disney nor Fannie Mae nor the NFL can find contractors? Shaddap.
They have 28 months to apply for citizenship or leave the country. This is fair.
1 million jobs open up now that’s progress.
Millennials were brainwashed by progressives that hard work is for immigrants.
Volunteer 'Candy Stripers' cared for infants and the elderly when I was a kid but that was a different America ago.
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