President Joe Biden’s Secretary of the Navy wants to import skilled blue-collar immigrants to build U.S. Navy ships that protect Americans and their job opportunities.
“What we have to do is basically open the spigot a little bit on legal immigration and allow the blue-collar workers to come here…so they can actually join us. “Shipyard workers can work in shipyards and be employed in the types of trades that are open to them,” Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro said at a conference in Arlington, Virginia.
Del Toro’s call for migrant shipyards comes amid a shipbuilding crisis in which many U.S. warships are being delivered far behind schedule and sometimes with serious defects, Forbes reported. report In 2021, the United States will:
In a typical year, fewer than 10 ships are built for ocean trade. China builds more than 1,000 such ships each year. The overall number of ocean-going merchant vessels registered in the United States is less than 200 out of a total of 44,000 worldwide.
But the administration’s support for mass immigration will ease the pressure on state governments and businesses to train the next generation of Americans for skilled jobs.
The government’s influx of cheap immigration also provides an easy excuse for CEOs and investors to avoid the difficult task of increasing per capita productivity. Improving productivity typically requires executives to manage a difficult combination of training, automation, reorganization, risk, and innovation.
According to the U.S. Naval Research Institute, the Navy is currently spending more than $15 billion to improve shipyard productivity. report During February:
Unfortunately, GAO noted in its 2022 report that “while shipyard facility conditions have generally improved, they remain among the lowest-scoring warehouse facilities in the entire Department of Defense.” On average, the equipment condition of all shipyards is in the “poor” category. ”
Del Toro said the Navy would “dedicate tremendous resources to retraining.” [American] For example, to be able to actually work in a shipyard or be employed in industries open to shipyard workers. ”
That could be good news for Americans and their children. As Mr. Biden moves ahead with mass immigration of about 10 million people, millions of American men are dropping out of the economy for reasons such as addiction, and millions more are unable to find low-wage jobs. Hopes for homeownership, marriage, and family are dwindling.
Files/workers walking through the General Dynamics NASSCO shipyard in San Diego, California (Chris Goodney/Bloomberg via Getty)
But immigration is a top priority for the Biden administration. “President Biden will continue to do everything within his power to create more legal pathways.” [for migrants] Get citizenship,” said Fabiola Rodriguez, deputy director of Hispanic media for the Biden campaign. Said TheHill.com on April 25th.
Many business groups are also keen to import more immigrants for lower-wage jobs that would be given to higher-paying Americans. For example, business groups have persuaded many state legislatures to allow undocumented immigrants to obtain licenses in skilled trades such as plumbers, therapists, electricians, and ironworkers.
American politicians and national security activists have repeatedly called for immigration to fill the talent gap. For example, in February 2017, Bill Kristol declared Population replacement would be the best way for elites to exercise state power around the world.
Look, let’s be honest, if conditions are as bad for the white working class as you say, why don’t you want to admit new Americans? [I hope] This was not video recorded and is not shown anywhere. Whatever small, pitiful future I had would be completely destroyed. America was great because, I think John Adams said it, basically when you’re in a free society, a capitalist society, after two or three generations of hard work, everyone becomes kind of decadent. You could argue that it’s because they’re lazy and spoiled. anything. And we’re lucky that people are pouring in from Italy, Ireland, Russia, and now Mexico.
The Cuban-born del Toro followed that pro-immigration trend when he spoke at the Stimson Center on April 23.
“I think of bigger problem … teeth actually of Not enough of blue color Worker that we have in this country,” he said, adding:
Unfortunately, this country is pretty politically divided, you might say, but Congress has come together to pass comprehensive reforms and the amount of legal immigration that we’re actually going to allow into this country. The time has come to increase the number of [and] It’s about increasing the amount of work visa programs that are granted to blue-collar workers who come from other countries and actually work here, as has really existed since the founding of our government.
Many polls show that the public opposes moving workers, especially when Americans are losing opportunities as companies try to cut labor costs.
