Thanks in huge part for Clinton’s most favored trading partner setup and nobody else pulling the plug either after the horse got out of the barn. If by the mid 2000s decade we would’ve clamped down hard, it could’ve been different. Pretty much too late now though.
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Not only Clinton.
Bush, Bush II, Obama and Biden opened the floodgates to Cheap Indian Labor. This doomed the formerly well-paid American white-collar worker to a life of minimum wage hell working starter jobs they are ill-suited for.
You’re right. And the Republicans, especially the neo-cons were absolutely were and are a major part of the problem. Nobody *really* wants to shut the borders. Not even Trump, who increased legal immigration. Legal and H1Bs are, to me, actually worse than illegal because it’s state sponsored terrorism imposed by the state on the middle class.