Hank Johnson for VDare on whether Donald Trump regrets taking Jared
Kushner's advice to downplay the National Question on the campaign
trail against Joe Biden and Kamala Harris: <URL:https://vdare.com/articles/cape-cod-proving-george-borjas-right-reduced-immigration-protects-jobs-lift-wages-for-americans>
| Which brings up what Sen. Bernie Sanders used to say about the
| problems caused by guest-worker programs that harm the American
| people, even if he is a sellout on immigration and foreign workers
| now.
|
| He laid out the problem well for Fox News's Lou Dobbs 15 years ago:
|
|| If wages are going down, I don't know why we need millions
||
|| of people to be coming into this country as guest workers, who
|| will work for lower wages than American workers and drive
||
|| wages down even lower than they are right now [What Bernie
|| Sanders told Lou Dobbs in 2007 about why he opposed the Kennedy-
|| McCain immigration bill, by Matthew Yglesias, Vox, February 12,
|| 2016]
|
| Sanders also questioned the necessity of importing foreigners to be
| lifeguards, which is also what happens in ski resorts in states such
| as New Hampshire and...Vermont. In the winter, J-1 visa workers fill
| jobs at those resorts...as if young, working-class white kids can't
| do those jobs [A Look At The Foreign Workers Who Make Ski Resorts Go
| Round, by Megan Michelson, Powder, March 27, 2019].
|
| Continued Sanders:
|
|| A lot of people coming into this country are coming in as
|| lifeguards. I guess we can't find--that's right. We can't fine
|| American workers to work as lifeguards. And the H1B program has
|| teachers, elementary school teachers.
|
| Sanders said the same thing in 2013 in discussing guest-workers and
| the Gang of Eight Amnesty [Sanders: Immigration bill threatens
| American workers, The Washington Post, YouTube, July 12, 2013].
| Sanders asked whether the country needed "hundreds of thousands of
| entry-level workers" such as "waiters, waitresses, lifeguards, ski
| resort workers"--
|
|| Is it really true that we can' find American workers to do those
|| jobs? Frankly, I don't believe it. ...
||
|| When you go to inner cities, you have 30, 40 percent
|| unemployment. Do we really need hundreds of thousands of workers,
|| entry-level workers ... coming in competing against these kids? I
|| think not.

Will Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell open the spigots to the
Cheap Labor Lobby's scab worker import pipelines to tamp down Biden's stagflation?

John
groenveld@acm.org
--
"Chad Wolf, AFPI's Executive Director & Chief Strategy Officer, was
one of the worst people in the Trump admin. Wolf, who was formerly
an immigration lobbyist, tried to use his powers at DHS to increase immigration. https://t.co/C6J566TvoJ https://t.co/cqZ93PKuUc" -
Pedro Gonzalez
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