When the worst of the pandemic ends, tens of millions of Americans will be out of work. While the fundamentals of the Trump economy are strong, the rebound will take some time. As the economy comes back to life, we must put Americans, not foreign workers, first.
Americans deserve every opportunity to find good-paying jobs, especially in tough times. I am proposing that the federal government end all employment-based immigration until we recover. We must pause new work-based immigration visas until the economy reaches its pre-pandemic unemployment rate of 3.5 percent.
Our guest worker programs can make sense when there is a real shortage of workers to do temporary work. But the government’s primary duty is to our citizens, not foreign nationals. This crisis is not the time to import more foreigners when millions of Americans are itching to get back to work. Indeed, in a very real sense, there are no available jobs in America. More than 22 million Americans have filed for unemployment in the past few weeks.
When we bring in foreigners to work, we are really offering them the right to take one of a limited number of jobs in a recovering economy, taking jobs that would otherwise go to unemployed Americans.
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Absolutely and seal the border indefinitely
ReplyDeleteThat’s the 2nd death blow to Ocean City!
ReplyDeleteOcean City businesses should not depend on under paid foreign students for maximum profits
DeleteWhy ? These students come here and make bank go home and are set for a year
DeleteYeah right! Then there will be no crops picked and no crab meat picked! America has created its own problems and will live with them forever! There will always be people in the world who create problems so they can be the fake hero, all the time getting Rich in the back ground.
ReplyDelete3:11pm, Amen to that.
ReplyDeleteSeal the border cancel work visas and delay elections for a year or two
ReplyDelete@436 Sure there will be. It just won't be done for slave wages. The farms and industries will have to compete in the labor market and adjust their prices for product accordingly.
ReplyDeleteJust like a restaurant relies on the generosity of others to pay there employees these should also all be cancelled with 22 million out of work.
ReplyDeleteIn the agriculture world, migrant workers are paid very well ($10-18 per hour). They bring the benefit of efficient, consistent labor, something severely lacking with American workers. They simply can not, or will not, produce enough to be worth their wages.
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