Posted on 03/07/2019 5:14:35 AM PST by central_va
Ahead of the 2020 presidential election, President Trump is abandoning his prior “America First” legal immigration reforms to support increases of legal immigration levels in order to expand profits for businesses and corporations.
For the fourth time in about a month, Trump suggested increasing legal immigration levels. With Apple CEO Tim Cook sitting next to him at the White House on Wednesday, Trump said he not only wanted more legal immigration but that companies needed an expansion of new arrivals to grow their business.
“We’re going to have a lot of people coming into the country. We want a lot of people coming in. And we need it,” Trump said:
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Lol, I know what it is, too bad you don’t.
What is the labor force participation rate?
The labor force participation rate refers to the number of people available for work as a percentage of the TOTAL POPULATION
Try again
It surprises me how many people want to end immigration.
We have a model for how that would work - Japan. A moribund economy with an aging and shrinking population.
The correct model on immigration control is the USA from 1925 to 1965.
As far as Japan goes in the long term they will be fine because Japan will still be Japan. Eventually their age demographics will shift downwards and the cycle of prosperity wll begin again for them.
“LOL some people just live to whine and complain.”
YOU nailed it.
We will NEVER have someone like Trump as President again. He IS the only thing standing between us and Swamp Oblivion. The “nattering Nabobs of Negativity” on FR notwithstanding.
That model might work if you can crank up another baby boom. Otherwise it's a recipe for (hopefully) managed decline.
Um, there was no baby boom from 1929 thru 1942.
What difference does it make if your livelihood and job is given to an H-1B visa indentured servant?
But they are up enough for the Fed to spring into action to slow the economy, suppress wage growth and fight the dreaded inflation. I've observed over many years that nothing sets the Fed off like increasing pay for hourly and other lower earners in the US. They act as if rising wages are the only cause of inflation.
I'm highly skeptical of all these claimed labor shortages. We still have real, real unemployment that approaches 20% when all the able bodied on welfare and other government, anti-poverty programs are considered.
We need serious welfare to work programs, and real assessments of the supply and demand for labor before we start bringing in even more immigrants to suppress wages and fill job openings based on the claims of the industries that benefit from suppressed salaries and wages.
No, we have those people, but they need to be incentivized to move (moving expenses included), come out of retirement, or sanity check the companies for their endless list of “job requirements” that prevent college grads from applying through automated means, in favor of H1-Bs with limited ability to background check or validate claimed “education” back in their home countries,.
Worth repeating.
Maybe, but the fertility rate was pretty much at baby boom levels.
NCHS - Births and General Fertility Rates: United States
Today it's below the replacement rate.
BiggBob wrote:
So he’s still against illegal immigration?
And with record low unemployment and continued job growth we may need more MERIT BASED legal immigrants?
LOL some people just live to whine and complain.
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What YOU said.....:)!
So Trumps won’t get your vote now. I get it.
WHO are you going to support to ensure this won’t happen?
What is his NAME?
What’s the plan to stop this?
My best choice now may be to do nothing and watch Rome fall.
Record low unemployment based on a bogus calculation that has been used for years, and that leaves out millions of non-working Americans of working age who are not self-supporting, but reliant upon the government's anti-poverty programs. Also, many older workers who've been victim of age discrimination and would like to get back into the work force.
And has there been any real investigation into the many cases where US employees were required to train their H1-B replacements and then were laid off? There were many stories of companies pulling that stunt.
All this publicity is being driven by industries that wish to hold down salaries and wages, and then affirmed by their bought and paid for members of the US Congress. And there are all too many in the Trump administration pushing this agenda.
H1B / Immigration bump for later.....
It's not really a question of whom anyone in this thread, or any member of FR might vote for. It is a question of how a shift to increased legal immigration and increased worker visas will affect Trump's support in states he barely won such as Wisconsin, Michigan, Florida and Pennsylvania.
His re-election depends on holding such states and the margin of error is very small, a few tens of thousands out of several million votes. - Like it or not, there are many conservative voters who will stay home if they feel betrayed on an issue critical to them. That's reality, and all the wailing and gnashing of teeth in the world won't change that reality.
These actions are in direct opposition to the reasons most folks voted from Trump.
If he continues down this path he will not be reelected.
“And with record low unemployment and continued job growth we may need more MERIT BASED legal immigrants?”
LUDICROUS.
Merit based = H-1B.
There is nothing supportive of American in the H-1B program. It’s anti-American by definition.
You’re a troll.
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