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Posted on 04/24/2026 6:29:36 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
Representative Maria Salazar (R-FL) has admitted that her proposed “Dignidad” (Dignity) mass amnesty bill is in large part about “help[ing] big business to have cheap labor.” PULSE POINTS ❓ WHAT HAPPENED: Florida Republican Rep. Maria Salazar is promoting her Dignidad (Dignity) mass amnesty bill as a solution to labor shortages, confirming at a Wednesday press conference in Washingston, D.C.: “When people tell me that I am trying to help big business to have cheap labor, I’m going to answer them: It’s not [just] big business; it’s not only agricultural or construction or hospitality or health care or manufacturing—it’s more.” The bill would grant amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants and block deportations. 📺 DETAIL: Salazar suggested the Dignidad amnesty would lower costs by driving down wages, arguing, “Americans want affordability, and they want affordable vegetables and fruits.” Notably, regularizing millions of illegals and giving them the right to work would likely have a particular impact on the job opportunities and pay for younger and lower-skilled Americans, at a time when goals such as getting on the property ladder are already increasingly out of reach. 💬 KEY QUOTE: “The President is a very smart guy. He comes from hospitality and from construction. Do I have to tell him that those [migrants] are needed [in] those five sectors, construction, hospitality, agriculture, health care, and manufacturing?” – Rep. Salazar 🎯 IMPACT: Salazar’s amnesty would dramatically undermine the “mass deportations” pledge President Donald J. Trump ran on in 2024, putting the interests of illegals and big business ahead of American workers. Notably, the Wednesday press conference was organized by a subsidiary of the American Business Immigration Coalition (ABIC), whose executive director, Rebecca Shi, is a Chinese immigrant. Shi, whose mother was subject to a deportation order for 19 years, stated openly at the conference, “Work permits for long-term immigrants lower costs.”
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What labor shortages????
Every day we read new stories about layoffs because AI/ROBOTS are replacing humans.
And for those being laid off at Microsoft and other tech companies, they can learn to pick tomatoes or mow lawns.
She needs to be primaried.
I have no sympathy for anyone whose business model is based on illegally hiring foreigners. That holds for tech as well as hospitality.
“Amnesty Bill Author Admits It Is for ‘Big Business to Have Cheap Labor.’”
IOW, to screw American workers.
“””I have no sympathy for anyone whose business model is based on illegally hiring foreigners.”””
And Salazar is sympathetic for those businesses who are hiring illegal foreigners by making it LEGAL to hire ILLEGALS.
Without the cheap illegal laborers, who will pick Maria’s dingle berries?
Representative Maria Salazar (R-FL) has admitted that her proposed “Dignidad” (Dignity) mass amnesty bill is in large part about “help[ing] big business to have cheap labor.” PULSE POINTS ❓
WHAT HAPPENED: Florida Republican Rep. Maria Salazar is promoting her Dignidad (Dignity) mass amnesty bill as a solution to labor shortages, confirming at a Wednesday press conference in Washingston, D.C.: “When people tell me that I am trying to help big business to have cheap labor, I’m going to answer them: It’s not [just] big business; it’s not only agricultural or construction or hospitality or health care or manufacturing—it’s more.” The bill would grant amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants and block deportations. 📺
DETAIL: Salazar suggested the Dignidad amnesty would lower costs by driving down wages, arguing, “Americans want affordability, and they want affordable vegetables and fruits.” Notably, regularizing millions of illegals and giving them the right to work would likely have a particular impact on the job opportunities and pay for younger and lower-skilled Americans, at a time when goals such as getting on the property ladder are already increasingly out of reach. 💬
KEY QUOTE: “The President is a very smart guy. He comes from hospitality and from construction. Do I have to tell him that those [migrants] are needed [in] those five sectors, construction, hospitality, agriculture, health care, and manufacturing?” – Rep. Salazar 🎯
IMPACT: Salazar’s amnesty would dramatically undermine the “mass deportations” pledge President Donald J. Trump ran on in 2024, putting the interests of illegals and big business ahead of American workers. Notably, the Wednesday press conference was organized by a subsidiary of the American Business Immigration Coalition (ABIC), whose executive director, Rebecca Shi, is a Chinese immigrant. Shi, whose mother was subject to a deportation order for 19 years, stated openly at the conference, “Work permits for long-term immigrants lower costs.”
Lots of people want a lower class cheap labor pool. They always have. Because if there is someone lower they must be higher on the pole.
Pure evil.
Who will pick our cotton if they take away our slaves?
People may disagree about timelines, but anyone paying attention to AI and also the robot workers that Musk is working on, ought to see that at some point in the foreseeable future, a lot of humans will not be contributing to the national economy.
We do NOT need more human workers. We are going to have to figure out what to do when we have too many humans who have no work.
Employers can treat them like slaves.
If they become legal, employers can't hold that over them and will end up paying them more.
Keep on with the deportations.
End generational welfare, put the grifters to work.
Want to do away with labor shortages? Do away with welfare.
If your young and healthy and don't work, you don't eat...
So we need illegal aliens to do the jobs legal American citizens won’t do. So the solution is to legalize the illegals, who will then, having much greater opportunity, refuse to do the low wage jobs?
I don’t know why anyone would be surprised at this. Luna’s bill has always been the GOP’s position on illegals, it hasn’t changed in over half a century. They just try to keep it unsaid.
Correction: Salazar’s bill.
Salazar, not Luna
Big business, small business. Lower wages mean lower prices for the consumer.
Well to be fair it’s also because she’s Hispanic and most of the illegals that would get amnesty are also Hispanic.
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