President Joe Biden’s pro-immigration border plan is a huge betrayal of working Americans and their families, says Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Missouri).
“This bill is, above all else, a betrayal of American workers,” Hawley said. I have written A Feb. 5 article on CompactMag.com added:
[H]And while employers are the ultimate anti-worker kryptonite, a shadow army of reserve workers serving corporations flush with cash for dividends and stock buybacks, somehow American workers not enough to pay a fair wage to After decades of flat wages and deteriorating protections, American workers deserve better treatment. And behind-the-scenes deals like this aren’t just bad policy, they’re insulting.
Americans can have open borders for immigrants or a fair and equal labor market for Americans, he wrote, adding, “But it can never be both.” .
President Joe Biden walks along the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas, Jan. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
Hawley is one of the leading voices opposing the gift bill. He supported other senators’ decision late Monday to block early approval of the pro-immigration bill for a vote on Wednesday. And he is likely to speak out as the bill’s supporters try to blame the Republican shift on humanity. Donald Trump’s.
holy I have written:
At the heart of the new border bill is a radical idea. It is a legal provision that grants entry permission after expedited immigration screening. immediately Work permits for individuals applying for asylum…
If illegal immigrants were able to obtain this immediate work permit without fear of deportation, we would expect a large influx of immigrants claiming asylum purely to benefit from these benefits. Will their voices ever be heard again? i doubt it. And second, this bill would allow employers to cut American workers’ wages. Why risk hiring an American citizen (who may be a union member and advocate for fair treatment) when you can hire a newly authorized illegal alien? Or?
His financial situation put him at odds with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which announced its support for the bill on February 5.
We look forward to working with lawmakers to pass these common-sense measures that improve U.S. security by addressing our southern border issues and supporting Ukraine and Israel.
Hawley’s dinner table perspective on immigration politics is also largely ignored by DC’s white-collar journalists, most of whom are trained to ignore real-world consequences and portray the Battle of Capital Hill as a morality play. Special feature Good insiders and bad outsiders.
Hawley’s view is in the minority among Republicans. But it’s a theme that is becoming politically connected to former President Donald Trump’s fanatical, populist majority in key bases of the party.
This theme of pocket politics is attracting more Republican politicians as it zigzags between pro-immigration donors and pro-American voters.
For example, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) was chosen by Washington DC insiders to be the Republican face of the 2013 “Gang of Eight” pardon. But in 2023, he wrote a book called “This country has prioritized importing cheap labor.”
Migrants walk next to the U.S.-Mexico border fence on Dec. 11, 2023, in Lukeville, Arizona. (Eric Thayer/Bloomberg via Getty)
Rubio continuation:
Today, our immigration system is corrupt and exploitative across this country. And it started, like many of America’s problems, with a fundamental shift to a globalized economy.
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However, not all companies can export. In other words, Wall Street simply figured out how to import cheap labor. much of it [clarification, not all] It comes from illegal immigrants. This was a slower, more delicate process. Sure, some politicians have made a big deal about “jobs Americans won’t do,” but other than that, wages have stagnated and benefits have stagnated until they are replaced by people willing to work more hours. The only protest came from workers who felt that their work hours were also being cut. Cheaper.
Often it’s about jobs that Wall Street doesn’t want Americans to do. Because hiring Americans requires higher wages and better working conditions. It is better for them to import cheap labor and buy off Americans with government-provided cash welfare programs.
A “border agreement” is an easy no. It reads like a parody of the actual border security bill.
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) February 5, 2024
Mr. Hawley’s article shares the same theme as Mr. Rubio’s book, stating:
Big American companies want cheap labor. They don’t want to raise wages or improve working conditions. They want to maintain the status quo of stagnant wages, unsafe workplaces, increasingly oppressive scheduling, and countless other evils. They want employees who work as cheaply as possible, which means they want continued large numbers of immigrants, both legal and illegal.
Extract migration
Since at least 1990, the federal government has relied on extractive immigration to grow the economy, allowing investors to move high-wage manufacturing to low-wage countries.
Immigration policies rob poor countries of vast human resources.Additional workers, consumers and renters push up It drives up stock prices by lowering Americans’ wages, subsidizing low-productivity businesses, raising rents, and inflating real estate prices.
This economic policy deprived many American-born people of careers in various business fields and reduced the productivity and political influence of American-born people.It reduced high-tech innovation and crippled civil life. solidarityand allowed government officials to ignore it. rising mortality rate of got thrown away American.
Immigration policies also siphon jobs and wealth from core states by subsidizing coastal investors and government agencies with large numbers of low-wage workers, high-occupancy renters, and government-supported consumers. There is.
Policies like colonialism also killed thousands of immigrants, including many in the jungle, paid for with taxpayer funds. trail Passing through the Darién Canyon in Panama.
