All of the low-skill workers (who often vote Democrat) will benefit if Trump can get rid of the flood of illegal immigrants.
All of the high-skill STEM workers (some of whom vote Democrat) will benefit if Trump can address the H1-B disaster.
Good for the country, and it’s good politically. 100% of the people who oppose Trump on this issue will oppose him no matter what. Fighting for American jobs won’t cost Trump a single vote, it’s nothing but gain for him.
I have posted this on here before and I’ll post it again.
I’m a consultant. I do projects for big banks. In the very large bank I work for now, I am not exaggerating when I tell you that about 1/4th of the people doing back office functions (accounting, finance, auditing, etc) are Indian H1B visa holders. It might even be 1/3rd. They themselves have told me they get paid less money than Americans when I asked why there were so many. No, these are not people with masters degrees in computer science. These are mostly lower level standard white collar jobs that should be filled with 20 and 30 something Americans.
I have noticed this for years even during the Great Recession. This is a scandal. I’m amazed it doesn’t get brought up more often. Those should be overwhelmingly Americans in those jobs. Yes, the banks would have to pay more. Too bad. It’s terrible for the country to allow this. Not only do Americans get denied those jobs and have to take lesser jobs, but where are the middle and upper middle managers (about my level) going to come from in 10-15 years if younger Americans are denied many of these jobs today?
We not only need to keep out illegals, we need to tighten up legal work visas given out. Companies are lying when they say they can’t find qualified Americans. They just don’t want to pay more.
Yes this is absolutely a winning issue for Trump and the GOP so long as the RINOs are kicked out and the Jim Jordan crop of conservatives gain leadership. The funny thing is even the hard-core Democrats I know just about universally agree with Trump reigning in the damn h1b and preserving skilled jobs for US workers, and several said they’d at least hold their nose and vote for Trump in 2020 for this alone. They would never vote for a backstabbing pro-H1b RINO like Lindsey Graham, but they’d support one like Dave Brat who made opposition to the h1b and the other cheap labor visas like the L-1 a center piece of his campaign.
In fact I’ve always wondered why any skilled worker especially in tech would vote for either a Democrat or a RINO backstabber like Marco Rubio, Paul Ryan, Rick Scott or Grahamnesty, the reason for stagnating American wages is simple, way too much cheap labor supply thanks to the traitors and sell-outs in Congress caving to the Mark Zuckerbergs and Chamber of Commerce jerks who want to get us as close to slavery as possible. There are too many dirt poor half skilled techies in India willing to take a job from an American for barely above slave wages, the only way to help Americans earn what they need to pay down mortgages and college loans is do what previous American presidents knew automatically, restrict the supply of labor by reducing immigration and crowding. Trump is just the first modern President to figure that out, and it’s why, despite all the tears of the media, Dems and GOPe, he’ll win again.