Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) said Democrats want to grant amnesty to about 13 million illegal aliens and flood the U.S. workforce with low-wage foreign workers. , said working and middle-class Americans must compete for jobs.
At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing this week, Hawley lambasted Democratic witnesses for taking a pro-amnesty stance even though a majority of Americans support deportation.
“Why should American citizens and people here legally have to compete with illegal immigrants?” Hawley asked the witness.
“You're so obsessed with the ideological agenda of open borders that you don't actually care about workers. You want to give everyone here a path to citizenship, which means full amnesty.” You're talking about 'mass deportation'…You want mass amnesty…13 million people out of the workforce,” Hawley continued. Ta.
If you're interested in America, Here's the Democratic plan: Bring over 13 million illegal aliens here legally, taking jobs, lowering wages, and taking away health care benefits from Americans here. So that they can continue to lower wages, flood the workforce, and suppress all of the above. [Emphasis added]
For the past four years, borders have been open. We have had a de facto amnesty over the past 15 years. A disaster occurred, people died because of it, wages went down because of it.our city is in chaos because of it, and now you and the Democrats are saying, “More of the same, more of the same, let's double down”…I think that's crazy, completely crazy. , and so do the American people. [Emphasis added]
Indeed, Breitbart News has documented a trend in which President Joe Biden's administration has grown the country's economy, including its workforce, with millions of newly arrived immigrants.
Even before the coronavirus pandemic in China, nearly all net job growth went to foreign-born workers, knocking hundreds of thousands of native-born Americans out of the labor market.
As a result, wages have been unable to keep up with inflation under the Biden administration.
“The average hourly wage has increased by $5.68 (19.0%) since January 2021, but decreased by $0.39 (1.3%) after adjusting for inflation. You can think of it as an hourly inflation tax.'' Biden administration. “No wonder people are angry about the economy,” says heritage economist E. J. Antoni. I wrote With X.
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