Posted on 02/25/2017 6:08:27 AM PST by davikkm
Arkansas Republican Sen. Tom Cotton responded to New York Times columnist David Brooks over his claims that curbing mass immigration would cripple the U.S., tweeting that an influx of low-skilled labor hurts the employment prospects of young Americans, minorities, and established immigrants. Cotton has sponsored a bill cutting annual immigration flows into the U.S. by half, by limiting entry to 500,000 foreign workers each years. It’s a popular position for a wide swath of voters: 54 percent want immigration halved or reduced to zero, including 22 percent who want a total moratorium. That includes 68 percent of Republicans and 45 percent of Democrats who want to see dramatic reductions in migration levels.
The foreign-born population is set to grow more than 700 percent from 1970s levels. Now, it stands at 42.4 million. Unless immigration controls are taken off autopilot, over 78 million foreigners will soon reside in the U.S.
Mass immigration from the Third World is crippling workers in the economy, as Breitbart News reported in July. Every single job created from 2000 to 2014 went to foreign-born workers residing in the U.S.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Our labor-supply “shortage” is not a shortage of bodies, but a mismatch of incentives. If we had no immigrants at all, companies currently employing immigrants would have to resort to some combination of higher pay and automation. The extent to which a business would automate would depend, in part, on whether it could hire sufficient, suitable employees at any wage.
Would there be a wage at which currently unemployed Americans would take on construction jobs, landscaping, housekeeping, restaurant gruntwork ... if they still had the option of living on the dole, more years of school attendance, or living at their parents’ house while “looking” for the “ideal” job?
MORATORIUM on immigration is a beautiful concept.
So would well-off white males (and females)!
My main point was that I disagree with Ms. LePen’s explanation of how illegal immigrants affect the economy. There are a lot more factors.
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If white males and females are ‘well off,’ then their cell phone use is not affecting their productivity. It infuriates me to see unoccupied black males out all hours of the day glued to their cell phones.
“They want low cost labour, to make low cost products, for the poor and unemployed to purchase with their government benefits, therefore keeping the poor and disenfranchised happy and in line.”
This is a very good quote — and it could have been written by Herbert Marcuse.
Many are well-off because they are living with or otherwise supported by their parents, rather than depending upon their own earnings.
Many are well-off because they are living with or otherwise supported by their parents, rather than depending upon their own earnings.
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I don’t care if they’re living off of their parents as long as they’re not living off of ME.
If a person is attending school or college, he is almost certainly benefitting from taxpayer funding in some manner.
This is irrelevant to his productivity with or without a cell phone.
I don’t see “president” in his future, but he was the only member of the Senate to vote against giving Iran $150+ Billion. Even Ted Cruz said, “I’ll buy that for a dollar!”
I think that a moratorium on immigration is years over due. It makes no sense to me that at the same time this country is trying to bring order and law enforcement to the ongoing massive influx of people from all over the world, we continue to allow even more to immigrate here. I would also like to see the anchor baby claim to citizenship stopped as well as chain migration and the expansion of any govt benefits to non US citizens. So much to clean up but it has to start somewhere and some time. A moratorium is the first step.
Cotton is another hustler. He supported TPP which would have allowed the President to expand immigration levels.
Soon they will all be saying it.
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No, they won’t.
Many will have to be replaced.
McCain, Graham, Rubio, Corker, Alexander, Hatch, Heller, Hoeven, Murkowsky and Flake all voted for the Gang of Amnesty bill and are committed Cheap Labor Express Republicans.
"tell me how many of the potential “workers” currently un-employed, would actually take the jobs now being done by migrant workers?100%, if we stopped paying them not to work.
Cotton was the only one to oppose the Corker bill which stood the Constitution on its head so Obama could have his Iran “deal”.
Cruz supported TPP until he two-stepped to the other side.
Cruz provided the needed vote for cloture on TPA which enabled TPP.
I’m thinking the same thing. But honestly, after President Trump, the Elites will have the primaries so rigged it will be impossible.
Indeed. People got tired of waiting for the “trickle down” to start trickling, and for the “rising tide to lift all boats”. After 40 years of promises, we had enough.
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