Wall St. Journal: Illegal Migration Drains Public Support for Legalized Migration
Wall St. Journal: Illegal Migration Drains Public Support for Legalized Migration
Even the Wall Street Journal‘s pro-migration editors recognize that the economic harm caused by illegal migration drains the tepid public support for legalized migration.
“In recent years, those rules [in immigration policy] haven’t been consistently enforced,” said a June 16 op-ed by James Carter, a deputy undersecretary of labor in the George W. Bush administration, adding:
The result is a market distortion [because a bubble of illegal labor] holds down wages for those Americans most exposed to labor competition from unauthorized workers [and] increases demand for housing without a corresponding increase in supply.
The economic damage to ordinary Americans, the Bush appointee admitted, “undermines the legal immigration system that serves everyone’s interests.”
“We’ve moved on from that,” dismissed Rosemary Jenks, co-founder of the Immigration Accountability Project. She continued:
He’s very much stuck in the 1980s when ‘Legal good/Illegal bad’… [But] now most people actually understand that we need to end mass immigration — not just stop illegal immigration — but end [legalized] mass immigration.
For Americans, “It doesn’t matter if they’re legal, illegal, or legalized — they’re dragging down wages because they’re flooding the labor market,” she said, adding that migration also reduces marketplace incentives for companies to invest in productivity-boosting technology.
Polls increasingly show rising GOP opposition to the legalized migration — including white-collar programs — that extracts foreign workers, consumers, and renters from poor countries.
Breitbart News has posted many employer admissions that Americans’ wages rise when migration falls.
“If I can’t find staff, I’m going to increase my wages,” Rob Liebrich, CEO of the Alexandria, Virginia-based Goodwin Living business, told SeniorHousingNews.com for an article about Trump’s decision to cancel President Joe Biden’s expansion of the Temporary Protective Status (TPS) program to 350,000 Haitian migrants.
“I think everyone in the country is seeing this reality… wages have to increase because we have a smaller pool of individuals who are filling in the roles,” he added.
The article added:
For now, operators are shifting away from relying on new immigrant workers hires and are strengthening their domestic hiring pipelines.
Aspenwood added a second recruiter to its staff, leading to savings by avoiding the use of outside contracted recruiters. The operator has also taken a more proactive approach, according to Varley, by building on partnerships with trade schools, universities, and school systems. The idea is to get into classrooms and make the industry more appealing to students, she said.
The loss of migrant workers will also force the industry to hire Americans from long-ignored areas. “I’m going to recruit people from further away in markets where maybe people feel like they don’t have any impact,” said Liebrich.
Rachel Blumberg, the CEO of Sinai Residences in Florida, is also raising wages, according to Bloomberg:
Blumberg has been forced to hike wages multiple times for the positions affected by TPS: nurses, CNAs, maintenance, housekeeping, culinary, and dishwashers. She said competition for labor could lead to a wage war. “There will be a ripple effect, and everybody’s going to be fighting for the same employees in the same city,” she said.
The industry is lobbying hard to preserve the profitable TPS workers.
That campaign has been amplified by gullible coverage from establishment media sites, even as migration advocates admit that TPS migrants generate $20 billion in profits for investors each year.
Some members of Congress want to bail out the employers by raising the inflow of legalized workers.
In September, Rep. Lloyd Smucker (R-PA) filed a bill that would create a new inflow of H-2C visa workers for employers who have not offered enough money to hire local Americans, most of whom have families to support.
The Smucker bill would slash the ability of ordinary Americans to negotiate wages and benefits with local employers, such as Indian-run franchise hotels, chain restaurants, and roofing companies. The business-backed supporters include Henry Cuellar (D-TX), Tom Suozzi (D-NY), Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL), Juan Ciscomani (R-AZ), Mike Kelly (R-PA), Mark Amodei (R-NV), Andy Harris (R-MD), Don Davis (D-NC), Rich McCormick (R-GA), and Mike Kennedy (R-UT).
The cheap-labor lobbying is backed by FWD.us, which is run by major West Coast investors.
In the Wall Street Journal, Carter tried to explain why elites and lobbyists in D.C. have long ignored the damage to ordinary Americans caused by their support for the wage-cutting strategy of Extraction Migration:
As a deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury and later deputy undersecretary of labor in the George W. Bush administration, I worked on, among other things, immigration policy. Concerns about wage pressure were often acknowledged, then set aside as statistically insignificant. The academic literature gave little reason to do otherwise. But now the data has become much clearer and the old consensus harder to defend.
Bush’s disregard for the interests of ordinary Americans prompted him to suggest that American companies be allowed to hire “Any Willing Worker” from overseas.
Bush’s agents also established the massive “Optional Practical Training” migration program that has pushed millions of American college grads out of job opportunities.
Badenoch blasts 'moaning' female Labour MPs over Burnham jobs 'quota'
Kemi Badenoch has told Labour women to earn a job in Andy Burnham's Cabinet instead of demanding they are handed jobs because of their gender.
The Tory leader lashed out today amid reports that female MPs are demanding the de-facto new prime minister introduce a 50:50 gender split 'quota' in his government.
Amid reports that former foreign secretary David Miliband is being lined up to return to the role, possibly with his brother Ed as Chancellor, one female minister also complained that Burnham could not have 'more Milibands than women' in the top posts.
But in a scathing article in the Times today Mrs Badenoch told them to 'stop moaning' and get chosen on merit instead of retreating into 'more of the failed identity politics that is holding back our country'.
'There are many, many reasons why you shouldn't have any Milibands in the cabinet,' she said.
'But complaining that the boys haven't given them the right jobs or that the boys are taking all the jobs, just shows that Labour's women still don't get it.'
The idea of quotas was also attacked by Baroness Jacqui Smith, Labour's Skills Minister.
Asked by Times Radio if Mr Burnham should reserve jobs for women, she said: 'No, I think what Andy Burnham should be doing is building the very best team around him to change this country.'
A letter written by the Women's Parliamentary Labour Party has called on Mr Burnham to ensure a 50:50 split between men and women in government jobs
Amid reports that former foreign secretary David Miliband (above, right, in 2010) is being lined up to return to the role, possibly with his brother Ed as Chancellor, one female minister complained that Burnham could not have 'more Milibands than women' in the top posts
But Mrs Badenoch told them to pipe down and get chosen on merit instead of retreating into 'more of the failed identity politics that is holding back our country'
A letter written by the Women's Parliamentary Labour Party and seen by the BBC has called on Mr Burnham to ensure a 50:50 split between men and women in government jobs after he succeeds Sir Keir Starmer.
'We are asking you to demonstrate this change from day one and address the toxicity and misogyny within our own party and government,' it said.
Labour has never had a female leader, while the Conservatives have had three, and Mrs Badenoch urged the government to follow its meritocratic example.
'If you run a meritocracy, then you do not have to worry about jobs for the boys,' she wrote.
'Every woman who is a Conservative MP, every woman who has ever won the leadership, has had to fight to get where she is.
'By contrast, Labour women are demanding guarantees from Burnham. But the truth is he doesn't have to give any guarantees.
'If none of Labour's women are prepared to get their hands dirty and challenge him for the leadership, their demands are toothless.'
'In fact, it's quite revealing that the women's parliamentary Labour Party has written to Burnham asking him to commit himself to at least 50 per cent female ministers.
'This has nothing to do with meritocracy. It is yet more of the failed identity politics that is holding back our country.'
