One set of my grandparents came here as poor legal immigrants. 10 kids. 50% got college or associates degrees and all had HS diplomas [not GED's]. And that was before the explosion of community colleges. |
Mine too. Both sets of grandparents, none with more than a HS degree from their foreign country, had a total of nine kids between them. All but one have college degrees, and four have advanced degrees. |
Oh, these will be the good kind of working class folks, instead of the current leeches?! Well, that works out well. |
Exactly. (Wow, some of you really have trouble reading charts!) |
If you think fertilized eggs are people but people brought to this country as kids aren't, stop pretending your concerns are religious. |
H2B is the same thing it should be eliminated also. So if you say H2B should be eliminated why do you keep justifying H1B? Long term labor shortages do not happen naturally in market economies. That is not to say that they don't exist. They are created when employers or government agencies tamper with the natural functioning of the wage mechanism. "[To attract] workers, the employer may have to increase his wage offer. ... So when you hear an employer saying he needs immigrants to fill a "labor shortage'', remember what you are hearing: a cry for a labor subsidy to allow the employer to avoid the normal functioning of the labor market." -1990 Congressional Testimony of Dr. Michael S. Teitelbaum http://users.nber.org/~sewp/references/archive/weinsteinhowandwhygovernment.pdf |
and Cognizant and TATA are the MOST RACIST employers in the US. 99.9% Indians. South Indians. Why do we even let them exist in US? subsidy to large multi national corporations and Silicon Valley. |
Talent, huh? 73% of DACA recip surveyed live in low-income household 21% dropped out of high school |
If a kid's parents stop paying the mortgage, does the bank let the kid keep the house?
I mean it would be criminal/unAmerica to punish a "kid" (avg DACA age: 26) for something the parents did, right? |
These arguments about immigrant labor keep ignoring the most obvious solution - limit the immigrant pool of workers by going after employers that hire them.
The only need filled by this ongoing debate is those of employers who want to keep wages and standards as low as possible. Racism and xenophobia have always worked well as a way to get the workforce to agree to management's needs. Tighten the borders. I'm a liberal who can agree with that. But raise standards and wages within the borders. Why is that so hard? Because the employers who buy policymakers at every level of government don't want to raise standards and wages. It's that simple. |
why are the Democrats against eVerify?? answer that and you will understand why they abandoned the working class. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/make-e-verify-mandatory-when-hiring-and-that-will-help-stop-illegal-immigration-2016-11-02 |
PP here.. I actually work in IT and know about H1B.. work with tons of them. I have never defended it in terms of the US needing it for low skilled IT work. They do need it for highly specialized ones. However, I have stated before that just as Trump used cheap foreign labor to lower cost, so have other companies. So if Trump can do it, why can't other companies? So if you think H2B should be eliminated then you should've been very upset that Trump increased it by 15K just a few months ago. But, no... I've heard nothing from you Trumpsters about it. Instead, you continually turn a blind eye to his hypocrisy while crying about those same things that you rail about. How dumb are you to keep doing this? Even Fox News reported that Trump raised the H2B levels. Breitbart blamed it on Ryan. Talk about fake news and blaming someone else. Also, I can tell you that outsourcing IT has been happening for a while now, and if you increase wages here in the US, companies will just keep outsourcing those jobs more and more. The same thing happened to the textile and manufacturing industries. It's why the Trumps' line of clothing is made in China. You can raiil against the greedy CEOs, but then you should be railing against Trump and his family for choosing greed over American jobs. But you wont'. You will continually ignore this part and just rail against the "liberal" tech CEOs. And you wonder why we keep calling you Trumpsters blind deaf and dumb. |
The answer is in the article you linked: 1) Employers who want to keep hiring illegal labor. There are too many with lobbying power to push the levers of 2) Politics. As long as we can keep immigration an unsolvable solution, they can keep issue #1 as status quo. Amnesty for people who are already here is essential to productivity and the economy. The article gives passing mention to farming, but agribusiness would come to a painful and screeching halt if you made the majority of its laborers illegal tomorrow. And if you made them legal, the law would also require that you adhere to the law on wages, occupational safety, and other laws that protect workers. We can look to the coal industry for workers who just don't give a damn about any of that. If you say something about safety violations or the fact that you generally can't breathe, you're looking to become unemployed. Outside of coal, the easiest and enormously successful way of accomplishing the feat of a workforce that will accept any abuse is finding a workforce that has no other choice. Thus, illegal immigration goes on. |
amnesty for people here is democratic politics. more votes. a giant f you to the US workers to get more votes. That is why Democrats will not accept eVerify. They want amnesty to get 40 million more votes for democrats. |
That's funny. Republican farmers are the biggest users of illegal immigrant labor. If you are serious about curtailing illegal immigrants, you should lobby congress and Trump to raise the penalty for hiring illegal immigrants to $10k/person. That would stop most of the greedy R farmers from hiring them. Kill the demand; the supply will die. Very easy. Heck of a lot cheaper than the wall. Just hire a few more ICE enforcers to check papers. But you won't because it's easier to go after the poor illegal immigrant than it is the rich white business owners, like Trump. |