Via Breitbart Immigration, Breitbart.COM/immigration, see Neil Munro
on whether Donald Trump's Save America PAC will endorse Ken Cuccinelli: <URL:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/05/25/establishment-media-hides-migrations-cheap-labor-bubble/>
| Leonhardt -- and likely, many of his colleagues -- know the
| immigration elephant stomps on Americans' wages. Back in July 2019,
| when Trump's low-migration policy was raising wages for marginalized
| Americans, Leonhardt pushed through the corporate pressure to write:
|
|| As regular readers know, I have become somewhat hawkish on
|| immigration. I think our immigration policy should take into account
|| the sharp rise in inequality over the last few decades. One way to
|| do so would be to reduce, or at least hold constant, the level of
|| immigration by people who would compete for lower- and middle-wage
|| jobs while increasing immigration among people who would compete for
|| higher-wage jobs.
||
|| History also makes this point. It's not just a coincidence that
|| the period of strongest income gains for middle-class and poor
|| families -- starting in the 1940s -- followed, and overlapped with,
|| a period of falling immigration. "Immigration restriction, by making
|| unskilled labor more scarce, tended to shore up wage rates," the
|| great labor historian Irving Bernstein wrote.
|
| Leonhardt's new May 21 column ignores the role of immigration.
Does Leonhardt believe legacy American proles have a right to resist
their dispossession and does he agree with Morris Dees and $PLC's
certifcation of Kevin Lynn as a deplorable?
John
groenveld@acm.org
--
"I'm open to the theory that Trump was grown in a lab to sabotage
populism from the right" - Pedro Gonzalez <URL:
https://twitter.com/emeriticus/status/1392956684956577792>
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