Bezos’ WaPo: Business Needs Welfare-Dependent Immigrants to Take U.S. Jobs

Breitbart ^ | 26 Aug 2019 | John Binder

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The Washington Post, owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos who is also the CEO of Amazon, claims in a new editorial that a “rational” national immigration policy would deliver an endless stream of welfare-dependent immigrants to American corporations and businesses.

Despite rising wages for America’s blue-collar and working-class thanks to a tightened labor market, the Post editors write that importing low-income foreign workers is “the obvious antidote to chronic and predictable labor deficits.” To date, there remains about 12 million Americans out of the labor market who are unemployed, under-employed, or discouraged by their job prospects but all of whom want full-time jobs.

The Post editors explain:

A rational immigration system, one that meets the labor market’s demands for workers in an array of skill categories and income levels, is the obvious antidote to chronic and predictable labor deficits. Unfortunately, the Trump administration, heedless of the pleas of employers, has implemented and proposed measures whose effect will deepen existing and future shortages. And it has done so even as the unemployment rate, now 3.7 percent, continues to bump along at near-historic lows. [Emphasis added]

A policy announced by the administration this month would impede large numbers of low-income legal immigrants from remaining in the United States, or coming in the first place, if they are judged likely to use public benefits to which they are entitled, including noncash ones such as housing subsidies and health care. The impact would be a dramatic reduction in newcomers, and in existing immigrants eligible to become legal permanent residents, or green-card holders, the final step before full citizenship. By targeting low-income and low-skilled migrants, the rule would perpetuate severe worker shortages in a variety of sectors.

[KC_Lion]

Ping!

[Lurkinanloomin]

Sounds just like GHW Bush, George W. Bush, Yeb! Bush, Micro Rubio, Flimsey Grahamnesty, Lamar Alexander, Bob Hoeven, and all the rest of the Bush League Republicans.

We MUST replace the Amnesty Senators if we want to keep our country.

They want to give it away.

[a fool in paradise]

Norway requires you to have a $47,000 or higher salary if you plan to immigrate. You support their welfare state, not the other way around. They don’t have open borders.

Neither does New Zealand. You cannot immigrate to NZ if you are “obese”.

The rest of the world has higher standards for immigration. Hey Bezos, Up Yours!!!

[LegendHasIt]

I know a guy named Jose from Juarez who would be glad to run Amazon for 1 /100th of what Bezos makes for it.

And a few Hondurans who would be glad to take over reporting and editing at the Washington Post, for 1/5th of what the folks responsible for this article make. Their english may not be quite as good, but their understanding of economics and national security is a bet better.

Are they up for making those changes, in exchange for greater profits?

[upchuck]

From the article, emphasis mine:

A policy announced by the administration this month would impede large numbers of low-income legal immigrants from remaining in the United States, or coming in the first place, if they are judged likely to use public benefits to which they are entitled, including noncash ones such as housing subsidies and health care.

They are? Since when? This is madness.

[txrefugee]

Importing peons to work hasn’t worked out well for Germany.

[Fungi]

Yep! They are making the rules for us. Nonsense! You simply cannot steal to give to another. Thou shall not steal. Exodus 20:15.

[Monitor]

Democrats need someone to pick their cotton. News at 11.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Just like subsidized delivery.

[jmacusa]

The garbage coming from south of the border isn’t coming here to work. They’re coming here to collect welfare. They figured out years ago they can do at a minimum a hundred times better living on welfare, pushing out more kids and getting a check that they could ever do busting their humps working a job here or in their own counties.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

saw a little item which said that there are presently 7.5 MILLION job openings in the U.S.

If, as the Post claims, there are 12 million people who want to work but are not at the present, well, guess what? Read the damned “Jobs Want Ads”.

[exDemMom]

By targeting low-income and low-skilled migrants, the rule would perpetuate severe worker shortages in a variety of sectors.

Get rid of the minimum wage, and businesses would not have to resort to hiring illegals under the table. Then the worker shortage would go away, and young people would have paths to careers.