Posted on 08/31/2015 12:43:37 AM PDT by Behind the Blue Wall
Why Trump?
1. Illegal immigration is the only issue; if it's not stopped soon, America will become like California -- a demographic one-party state.
2. Politics is about name-recognition and none of the other candidates besides Trump has the name recognition to challenge Jeb Bush or Hillary Clinton.
Therefore, Trump is the only candidate with a chance to win who has promised to do the only thing that matters.
That is laughable. From your link,
“A couple years ago, when the unemployment rate was at incredibly high levels and labor participation was low, why would we want to flood the market with more workers?” he said. “So that would be a time when you would have arguably less. As the unemployment rate goes down and labor participation rates go up, the two have to go hand in hand. Then it could be conceivably more than we have today. So it’s not a set number.”
Here is what Trump said in his position paper:
Put American Workers First
Decades of disastrous trade deals and immigration policies have destroyed our middle class. Today, nearly 40% of black teenagers are unemployed. Nearly 30% of Hispanic teenagers are unemployed. For black Americans without high school diplomas, the bottom has fallen out: more than 70% were employed in 1960, compared to less than 40% in 2000. Across the economy, the percentage of adults in the labor force has collapsed to a level not experienced in generations. As CBS news wrote in a piece entitled “America’s incredible shrinking middle class”: “If the middle-class is the economic backbone of America, then the country is developing osteoporosis.”
The influx of foreign workers holds down salaries, keeps unemployment high, and makes it difficult for poor and working class Americans – including immigrants themselves and their children – to earn a middle class wage. Nearly half of all immigrants and their US-born children currently live in or near poverty, including more than 60 percent of Hispanic immigrants. Every year, we voluntarily admit another 2 million new immigrants, guest workers, refugees, and dependents, growing our existing all-time historic record population of 42 million immigrants. We need to control the admission of new low-earning workers in order to: help wages grow, get teenagers back to work, aid minorities’ rise into the middle class, help schools and communities falling behind, and to ensure our immigrant members of the national family become part of the American dream.
Additionally, we need to stop giving legal immigrant visas to people bent on causing us harm. From the 9/11 hijackers, to the Boston Bombers, and many others, our immigration system is being used to attack us. The President of the immigration caseworkers union declared in a statement on ISIS: “We've become the visa clearinghouse for the world.”
Here are some additional specific policy proposals for long-term reform:
Increase prevailing wage for H-1Bs. We graduate two times more Americans with STEM degrees each year than find STEM jobs, yet as much as two-thirds of entry-level hiring for IT jobs is accomplished through the H-1B program. More than half of H-1B visas are issued for the program's lowest allowable wage level, and more than eighty percent for its bottom two. Raising the prevailing wage paid to H-1Bs will force companies to give these coveted entry-level jobs to the existing domestic pool of unemployed native and immigrant workers in the U.S., instead of flying in cheaper workers from overseas. This will improve the number of black, Hispanic and female workers in Silicon Valley who have been passed over in favor of the H-1B program. Mark Zuckerberg’s personal Senator, Marco Rubio, has a bill to triple H-1Bs that would decimate women and minorities.
Requirement to hire American workers first. Too many visas, like the H-1B, have no such requirement. In the year 2015, with 92 million Americans outside the workforce and incomes collapsing, we need to companies to hire from the domestic pool of unemployed. Petitions for workers should be mailed to the unemployment office, not USCIS.
End welfare abuse. Applicants for entry to the United States should be required to certify that they can pay for their own housing, healthcare and other needs before coming to the U.S.
Jobs program for inner city youth. The J-1 visa jobs program for foreign youth will be terminated and replaced with a resume bank for inner city youth provided to all corporate subscribers to the J-1 visa program.
Refugee program for American children. Increase standards for the admission of refugees and asylum-seekers to crack down on abuses. Use the monies saved on expensive refugee programs to help place American children without parents in safer homes and communities, and to improve community safety in high crime neighborhoods in the United States.
Immigration moderation. Before any new green cards are issued to foreign workers abroad, there will be a pause where employers will have to hire from the domestic pool of unemployed immigrant and native workers. This will help reverse women's plummeting workplace participation rate, grow wages, and allow record immigration levels to subside to more moderate historical averages.
The historical average between 1921 to 1965 was 195,000 a year compared to 1.1 million annually today. Trump (read Jeff Sessions) has articulated an immigration policy far superior to the drivel spewed by Walker. Trump wants to lower legal immigration period. No equivocation or political correctness. Walker tries to have it both ways. It is like his on and off again stance on birthright citizenship.
Walker had a clear opening on immigration and protecting American jobs. He failed to take it. Trump sought the best advice and went full speed ahead. Immigration is a winning issue for Reps if they know how to use it. Unfortunately, only a few have the guts to use it. The rest are owned by their corporate paymasters.
In before GeronL.
I was just responding to this idea that he’s some big strapping handsome guy when he sort of reminds me of every old guy in Queens. But to me, that’s a good thing, not a bad thing.
Trump has promised plenty. Check out the full immigration plan on his website, but he’s repeatedly emphasized building the wall and deporting known criminal aliens.
Thank you for unlocking the Rand Paul mystery for me. I had no idea why he has polled so abysmally. I had forgotten about the McConnell endorsement. I recall, now that you mention it, thinking at the time that Paul was a GOPe hack after all. Afterward, never having been a Paul fan, I forgot it even happened.
Well if only Boehner loses his speakership, that will still be a yuge improvement. Nevertheless I hope McConnell goes down too. He declared outright war on the TEA party, you may remember. Be nice if his turncoat chickens finally came home to roost.
David Cameron of the “Conservative Party” in the UK put on an act of caring in the last election with his other policies mirroring Obama’s like doubling of the UK national debt in his first term, the blessing of gay marriage and supporting that nuclear talks with Iran. In Washington earlier in the year, Cameron called up US Senators to support Obama’s Iran policy.
But Cameron did say he would care about all the immigrants flowing in with phony, symbolic and meaningless gestures announced as serious policy.
It was just announced recently that net migration into the UK was 330-thousand for the last 12 months, a record figure.
So was Clinton.
Mainly capitalism, not much crony. Cato doesn't like Trump at all but they admit he is a capitalist, not crony capitalist other than his two attempts to eminent domain in the 90's to take land (both failed).
Ok, here’s what I did. I went to my favorite search engine and typed in, ‘Trump promises to build a wall.’ I got hundreds, maybe thousands, of hits. He has promised both the wall and the deportations. If you doubt it, you can do the simple search I did, and spend the rest of today reading about Trump’s promises.
As for promising not to run for a second term—where are you getting the craziness? I never said anything about such a promise. Did you dream it? Hallucinate it? Try, please, to stay on a sane point. I said Trump promised a wall and deportations. He did. Which is more than the rest have done.
Agree with everything you said. Attacking Trump seems to be the death knell of these flailing campaigns. It invariably backfires, yet still they do it. I guess they’re not called Career Politicians for nothing.
Certainly!.....and I should have capitalized Western....right?
Franklin, NC
First time for this part of NC.....usually go to the Ashville area.
I like Franklin and the surrounding towns more.....because it’s less hectic
The folks here are kind, kind.....gentle spirits, slow drawls like I knew growing up in Tennessee.
Realize I still miss the mountains even after living in Florida many years.
Thank-you!
Thank-you!
Frankly, I do not believe him.
Amen and none of them were “perfect” either.
Last time I checked, Trump really IS a NBC who loves his country & was not diapered, pampered & mentored by racist, America-hating Communists. Get a clue, please.
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