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U.S. Workers Hosed Again

Guest Post by Joe Guzzardi

Once again, the Deep State has set out to undermine President Trump. And in the process, career bureaucrats and entrenched Capitol Hill never-Trumpers are attempting to put the skids to U.S. tech workers. The issue, as per usual, is well-paying, white-collar jobs that Department of Homeland Security and Department of State want to give away to foreign nationals.

As first reported by Breitbart’s Neil Munro, DHS and State have concocted a complex scheme that would, unless President Trump intervenes to scotch the plan, result in 400,000 work permits being issued to foreign nationals, almost exclusively Indians and Chinese. Jumping for joy along with the prospective employment authorization recipients are bottom-feeding immigration lawyers who will profit obscenely from paperwork pushing, cheap labor-addicted corporations and immigration expansionists for whom too much is never enough.

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A New Summer Brings the Predictable Foreign Worker Exploitation

Guest Post by Joe Guzzardi

Summers come and go. And some are more memorable than others – better weather, extraordinary family road trips or exciting new adventures. But for decades, all summers have one sorry common denominator – the continuation of the State Department’s Summer Work Travel (SWT) program. Despite compelling, irrefutable evidence that SWT harms job prospects for young American workers, SWT keeps on ticking. When those young U.S. workers lose employment opportunities to international students, they miss out on the chance to earn money they could use to pay college tuition, develop on-the-job experience or pay down their debt load.

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May Jobs Report Shows Big Gains for Foreign-Born Workers

Guest Post by Joe Guzzardi

The heralded Bureau of Labor Statistics report has an interesting, but unreported on, component in May data. The headline-making BLS payroll survey showed that the economy created 223,000 new jobs, and reflected wage growth. Average hourly earnings grew eight cents, and pushed the average annual income growth to 2.7 percent.

But other data included in the BLS report indicated that, as part of a well-established trend, foreign-born U.S. resident workers outpaced, by a factor of two, the employment gains native-born Americans made. Between April 2017 and April 2018, foreign-born employment grew about four times faster than the native-born rate.

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GOP Midterm Slogan: ‘We Need Guest Workers to Do Your Jobs’

Guest Post by Ann Coulter

GOP Midterm Slogan: ‘We Need Guest Workers to Do Your Jobs’

At a rally in Michigan last weekend, President Trump promised to bring in lots of guest workers to — I quote — “do your jobs.”

Once, long ago, Trump was against replacing American workers with cheap foreign labor.

Back when Trump was invincible, he sounded more like this:

Breitbart News: Hundreds of workers at Disney were forced to train their foreign replacements. … [Rubio’s new bill] has zero protections for American workers. … Rubio’s bill is even endorsed by the CEO of Disney. What do you think of Rubio’s bill?

Trump: “It’s a disaster. It would allow any company in America to replace any worker with cheaper foreign labor. It legalizes job theft. It gives companies the legal right to pass over Americans, displace Americans, or directly replace Americans for good-paying middle-class jobs. …

“I am calling TODAY on Disney to hire back every one of the workers they replaced, and I am calling on Rubio to immediately rescind his sponsorship of the I-Squared bill and apologize to every Floridian for endorsing it.”

To paraphrase Ray Donovan, where do I go to get my Trump back?

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You’re Fired – Now Train Your Much Cheaper Foreign Replacement

Submitted by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,

If you were laid off from your job, would you be willing to train your replacement if your company threatened to take away your severance pay if you didn’t do it?  And how would you feel if your replacement came from India, and the only reason your company was replacing you was because the foreign worker was a lot less expensive?

Sadly, this is happening all over America – especially in the information technology field.  Huge corporations such as Disney and Southern California Edison are coldly firing existing tech workers and filling those jobs with much cheaper foreign replacements.  They are doing this by blatantly abusing the H-1B temporary worker visa program.  Workers that had been doing a solid job for decades are being replaced without any hesitation just because it will save those firms a little bit of money.

There is very, very little loyalty left in corporate America today.  Even if you have poured your heart and your soul into your company for years, that ultimately means very little.  The moment that your usefulness is over, most firms will replace you in a heartbeat these days.

When I learned that Disney was doing this, I was absolutely outraged.  Talk about a company that is going down the toilet.  The following comes from the New York Times…

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The “Illegal Immigrant” Recovery? The Real Stunner In The Jobs Report

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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/06/2015 22:15 -0400

Traditionally, when it comes to job numbers reported by the BLS’s Establishment (the source of the monthly nonfarm payrolls change) and Household (the source of the monthly unemployment rate data) surveys, there is a substantial discrepancy. However, in May’s far stronger than expected report, the two for the first time were almost identical: the Establishment Survey reported an increase of 280K jobs, while according to the Household survey 272K jobs were added.

Impressive numbers in a month in which only 215K jobs were expected to be added.

There were the usual kinks, of course. Two thirds of all jobs, according to the Establishment survey, were low-paying, low-quality jobs, primarily teachers, retail, temp help and waiters (something even CNBC has been forced to acknowledge):

 

This has been the case throughout the recovery, and helps explain why while wage growth while barely rising for all workers, remains depressed and even negative inr eal terms for production and non-supervisory workers, which account for 83% of all US employment.

 

There were other curiosities: the vast majority of jobs added in May, over 200K, were in the 20-24 age group, and the number of self-employed workers mysteriously soared by 350K to 10 million.

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