Posted on 02/21/2019 9:32:03 PM PST by rintintin
As debate in public rages about illegal immigration and a border wall, Jared Kushner has been holding private meetings in the West Wing on ways to overhaul the legal immigration system, according to six people familiar with the conversations and documents obtained by McClatchy.
President Donald Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law is operating on at least two tracks -- the first is working with a small group studying specific ways to redistribute employment visas and the second is helping lead a series of “listening sessions” with about three dozen interest groups important to Trump to see if there is a position that Republicans can rally around before the 2020 elections.
“Jared has proven with the work he did on criminal justice reform and the other work he’s done that he’s willing to be bipartisan,” said Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker and an informal adviser to Trump. “He’s willing to listen carefully. And I think he has a very good sense that if you don’t put together an overwhelming majority of Republicans nothing will happen... If it’s possible, they’ll try to move forward.”
What is clear from conversations with participants and both current and former Trump officials is that Kushner has helped kicked off a fresh discussion on immigration that reflects a new paradigm in the White House. It’s a shift away from priorities of 2017 that sought to prevent the influx of foreign workers who could displace American workers in favor of a new approach preferred by more traditional Republicans, particularly those close to the corporate sector who are desperate to attract more foreign workers to fill U.S. factories and tech hubs.
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Jared is a liberal NYC Democrat who has been meeting with the big GOP donor, cheap-labor power figures on this for weeks now. Javanka very likely out of their billionaire listening meetings convinced Trump that his economy needs the cheap labor of the illegals and Trump trying to provide it by simply making the illegals legal.
It is very unfortunate. The biggest weakness of the Trump admin by far has been the Javanka influence on hiring (from the corrupt transition team that Jared set up after getting Christie tossed), policy and ethics vulnerabilities.
After 25 months in office, Trump has just two consequential accomplishments on the immigration issue.
Trump has significantly reduced the number of refugees, from about 80,000 to 20,000.
And, Trump revoked Obama’s E.O. that allowed the spouses of H-1B visa holders to also work in the USA - from memory, about 30,000.
Every other immigration issue? Roughly the same status as Barack Obama.
DACA enforcement - only criminal DACAs are being removed - no consequential effort to deport non-criminal DACAs, which would be absolutely constitutional under the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952.
Temporary Protected Status - several hundred thousand ordered to leave - not enforceable for 6-24 months - all of them are eligible to apply for a new temporary status under several different programs.
Universal E-Verify - no progress - could be put into effect with an Executive Order - it has a pristine legal heritage of Executive Orders and statutes that go back to 1986.
Anchor Babies - no progress.
Annually - Legal Immigration - 1.1 million, 5% less than Obama. Green Cards Issued - 1.2 million, same as Obama. New Naturalized Citizens - 705,000 - 5% less than Obama. H-1B Work Visas - same as Obama. OPT Student Work Visas - 50,000 more than Obama.
Catch and Release - no effort to end it until the Mexican Refugee Caravan arrived in April 2018.
Workplace Immigration Raids - less than Obama, until the MSM revealed that six months before the mid-term election.
Secretary of Homeland Security - Kirstjen Nielsen - publicly supports DACA Amnesty.
Kirstjen Nielsen's Chief of Staff - a former H-1B lobbyist!
I’m at the age now where a lot of my friends and relatives have kids who just got out of college a few years back. Many of them went into tech fields, and they ALL got very good paying jobs right away... many got them even before they graduated. Good companies like Intel, Google, Microsoft, etc.
Ironic that on the one hand, the US Govt is suing Oracle for preferential hiring of foreign students over US graduates...on the other we are expanding cheap foreign workers...
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I’m not buying the “we should hate business because they sometimes hire foreigners” line. I also don’t hate foreigners.
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I want America’s industry to thrive again, and its going to take all the talent it can get. Why are you implying that the tech industry is not thriving?
BTW, You are aware that much of the tech industry in America is global...they have global interests that do not necessarily always line up with US interests. And why do you think that they are not thriving? Did I not just read that Amazon paid no taxes again? Have you looked at tech company stock gains over past 2 years? They are thriving.
“Its going to take all the talent it can get.” Why do you equate talent with cheap foreign labor? Disney fired US IT workers after they had to train their H-1B replacements... This has happened at numerous corporations—push out the higher paid US employee and hire the cheaper H-1B Visa holder...an unlimited supply of cheap foreign labor is chomping at the bit to replace US workers...Industry thriving, but sadly sometimes at expense of US workers... If you have followed the issue like some of us have, you would know this.
I have 4 family members in tech jobs - oh and employed at “good companies” Two of them are the lone worker within their department who was born and raised in the US. I don’t know the citizen status of their coworkers but BOTH have said the foreign workers have tamped down wages. Articles have been written about stagnant STEM wages. Good companies...Since when is Google a good company?
Another irony...offering foreign student F-1 Visas to Chinese over Americans. How does that help industry to thrive? Why do you think we have so much intellectual property theft?...Many of the students are stealing information and technology... Ironic that we are tarriffing China but opening the doors for their students and workers to come on in and steal...
its going to take all the talent it can get
Again, I think US tech companies are doing quite well—they just want cheaper labor - not necessarily more talented...And I don’t see how hiring cheap foreign labor which displaces US workers helps MAGA.
This effort by Javanka probably dovetails on their similar effort for their Israeli Peace Plan - both a disaster if reach fruition ...
We can work on changing the mindset of all our business leaders later. In the short term, I want our president to figure out a way to stop the illegal immigration problem so we don't have to absorb so many criminals, illiterates and anti-American types.
If we have to keep taking a few engineers and scientists to strike a deal, then I can live with that.
I am slowly realizing that many of these people are unemployed because they are UNEMPLOYABLE.
That's one of the big reasons Amazon was chased out of New York City. The locals who opposed the company knew damn well that most of them would never be hired by Amazon for one of those $150,000/year jobs.
Women may think this is cute, but if they want a husband who can provide for the family too, they need to pounce on this stuff and help men out.
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I don’t think that young married women have a problem with being the breadwinner, even with children.
In the past year, I’ve had a chance to observe two families with kids where the mom is a doctor and Dad is the house husband. I know that in one instance, the Dad worked full time while Mom was in school and their agreement was he could quit as soon as she had a job with a good salary.
Thinking about it, I also know of another, older family with the same agreement.
This makes me physically sick.
I just cannot stand Javanka.
Look for Trump to have second term.
Enforce ALL current immigration laws.
End ALL welfare for illegals.
Strict eVerify enforcement.
Criminal penalties for employers of illegals.
Suspend ALL refugee / asylum programs.
End Diversity VISA lottery.
Deport all VISA overstays.
End Anchor Baby policy.
Minimal new immigration for 50 years.
You don't want labor shortages - trust me on that.
It’s terribly problematic because it could cause some portion of Trump’s base to stop supporting him. And he has little margin for error.
I don’t trust that kid for 10 seconds.
If true, F*** him.
This is nothing but a money grab originally spearheaded by Greedy Executives and McKinsey & Co.
Given that GE are known frauds who cooked the books for decades to please Wall Street (e.g. manipulating earnings to always come in 1 penny over estimates) and who outsourced manufacturing to China in favor of GE Finance (another sham), ...
All the H1Bs ought to be forcibly evicted from the US.
Microsoft had a $57 billion one-time dividend.
This implies management failure, as it means they couldn't think of any business enterprise to put the money into, to get a decent rate of return, so they just gave it to shareholders; also, if they'd just invested in State bonds (therefore free of Fed taxes) they'd have netted over $1 billion a year in free cash flow without touching the principal or affecting continuing operations. They could have paid ALL going rate US salaries from that.
Naked, unspeakable greed to a degree that would have made the robber barons blush.
You’d be singing a different tune if they were outsourcing management to India.
We can work on changing the mindset of all our business leaders later. In the short term, I want our president to figure out a way to stop the illegal immigration problem so we don’t have to absorb so many criminals, illiterates and anti-American types.
If we have to keep taking a few engineers and scientists to strike a deal, then I can live with that.
I don’t see any give-and-take deal here. What I do see is US Citizen workers on both ends of spectrum getting screwed. We have been and seem to be continuing to give away our country. It is a give-give deal where US citizens give up jobs and salaries.
The President signed the Buy American and Hire American: Putting American Workers First Exec.Order 4/17; I think he and his liberal un-elected son-in-law should follow it.
https://www.uscis.gov/legal-resources/buy-american-hire-american-putting-american-workers-first
The Cheap labor express wants cheap illegals for chicken processing plants, farm work, landscaping etc. and big tech wants cheap H-1B Visas for coding and tech jobs...
You can live with this—I see you are now a photographer of models... but since I have 3 kids and spouse in tech with various degrees ranging from BS to PhD, I cannot live with this.
What’s more I don’t see the logic to think bringing in more tech workers facilitates a reduction in illegals. Basically we have a give-give deal.
If you want a strong middle class, then stop the flood of Chinese and Indian STEM workers that are taking jobs, undercutting wages, and stealing our technology. If want to stop the flow of illegals—building a wall will and providing intensive border control will do that.
Ironically none of the cheap labor express constituencies supported or voted for candidate Trump. The people who did vote for him are the ones getting screwed by proposals expanding legal immigration being advanced by some of his cabinet and now by Jared.
This does not MAGA.
She could also be the most vapid woman in America to take herself seriously. Hasn’t uttered an interesting or original sentence despite the many times she has spoken into a microphone.
Together they are a leftist, crony pox on the Trump admin.
There have been reports about him working on this, along with bringing in the usual big-biz, billionaire types to be “heard” by Jared since they ended the shutdown.
Who is “him??”
Jared? He was a democrat and not elected.
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