Nothing stops the push by Congress for more immigration – not 9/11, not the mortgage meltdown and Wall Street crisis, not dismal Bureau of Labor Statistics job reports and not COVID-19. Despite the fact that about 1 million new lawful permanent residents get work authorization each year, that about 750,000 guest workers arrive annually in a typical year and that dozens of types of nonimmigrant visas include employment permission, Congress is never satisfied.
Congress insists, predictably and tediously, that without more foreign-born labor, the economy will collapse and small businesses will vanish. These baseless claims, consistently proven false, are repeated year after year after year.
Example: In 2017, mostly at the horse racing industry’s behest, the Senate introduced the Save our Small and Seasonal Businesses Act, and the House introduced companion legislation, Strengthen Employment and Seasonal Opportunities Now Act. The bills, with bipartisan support, predicted that without more H-2B nonagricultural visas, horse racing, as fans know the “Sport of Kings,” might become extinct. But, four years later, the Kentucky Derby and smaller races at other nationwide tracks continue to draw large, revenue-generating crowds.
Example: Last year, U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), Chair of the House Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship and immigration lawyer, introduced the Let Immigrants Kick Start Employment Act that would create a new temporary visa for founders of start-up ventures. In her press release, Lofgren said that more immigration leads to more American jobs, an often-made, but misleading claim. Although Lofgren’s bill went nowhere, Silicon Valley recorded record profits in 2021, and The New York Times predicted that titans Google, Apple, Microsoft and other tech giants will be rolling in dough for years to come. From its July 2021 story: “The combined stock market valuation of Apple, Alphabet, Nvidia, Tesla, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook increased by about 70 percent to more than $10 trillion. That is roughly the size of the entire U.S. stock market in 2002. Apple alone has enough cash in its coffers to give $600 to every person in the United States.”
The latest assault on American workers is an immigration train wreck coyly called the America COMPETES Act of 2022. Boiled down to the bill’s most harmful elements, the America COMPETES Act would:
- Create a W nonimmigrant visa program for foreign investors of start-ups and entrepreneurs, their families and so-called but undefined essential foreign workers who work for them, also allowing their family members to receive work permits.
- Create a one-year path to an unlimited number of Green Cards for any W visa holder who meets certain investment and ownership stake requirements.
- Create an unlimited number of Green Cards for foreign citizens who hold a doctoral degree from a U.S. institution of higher learning or an equivalent degree from a foreign university.
- Create a five-year program that creates 5,000 Special Immigrant Visas (SIV) yearly for Hong Kong residents, amounting to an additional 25,000 Green Cards over the five-year period.
- Authorize an unlimited refugee/asylee program for certain Hong Kong residents.
- Change existing law to treat Hong Kong as a separate state from China in determining per-country limits for existing Green Card categories.
- Grant Temporary Protected Status with work permission for Hong Kong residents currently in the U.S., regardless of their existing immigration status which may include unlawfully present status.
Under the guise of promoting American innovation, the act’s hodgepodge of vague language makes almost anything possible. One thing is certain – the America COMPETES Act will massively increase legal immigration, flood the labor market, make job searches for Americans in all sectors more difficult, and have an adverse effect on recent U.S. college graduates hoping to begin their careers.
The America COMPETES Act intentionally harms U.S. citizens, but will be a bonanza for arriving foreign nationals, employers addicted to cheap labor and Silicon Valley multimillionaires. No greater gap exists between voters and Congress than on immigration policy. The thoroughly awful, destructive America COMPETES Act is one of the most powerful examples of why the immigration chasm is so wide.
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The most dangerous weapon America has at the moment is sitting right in DC. Send those ass-hats over to china and watch their economy go in the crapper.
The unasked, unanswered question here is, as always, “Who is running Congress?”
Take a look for yourselves who is obviously not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_United_States_senators
The dearth of mainstream alt media (a new term) stating we have no government and what that means. It’s just too much I guess. Too scary.
How about our “representatives” fund all new immigrants for 5 years from their own income.
It’s the great replacement. Currently and for the past thousand years, white, Christian culture is the only one with a history of individual rights. Beginning with Magna Carta and reaching its apex in the American Revolution, the rights of man were held to be sacred. Not surprisingly, 2 years after the coup that overthrew America, the Deep State passed the Immigration Act of 1965 forever altering the basically, homogenous racial makeup of America. I was privileged to have lived the first 15 years of my life in that Nation. But the Country of my birth is long dead. The great lie of our age: Diversity is our strength. Quite the opposite. Diversity was our doom.
Mike – Before the ’65 immigration bill people came to America and worked their way out of the slums, learned the English language and did everything they could to make sure their kids were American kids. We were a melting pot that created a very good stew. Today, we are nothing more than a tossed salad with each identity group maintaining its own identity and refusing to become American. This was also the time of the not so Great Society that kept poor families dependent on the government for their very being.
It is Cloward-Piven – overwhelm the system with immigrants and welfare recipients.
Judgment day is coming to this nation that flushed God from their memory and chose the evil one to be allegiant to. The nation that forgets God will beturned into Hell.
You anywhere near Franklin, Tenn. Patriot? My son in law just moved my daughter and grandsons there from San Diego. He worked for Northrop Grumman, she for QUALCOMM. Both make 6 figures and they saw the handwriting on the wall as they were going to be the ones funding the California welfare state.
No, we are in rural W TN about 50 miles from Memphrica. Franklin is a neat little (growing) town. You will enjoy it when you go to visit.
Thanks
QM
Yes Californians have been moving there for quite awhile.
Lots of Yankees, too.
It is what it is.
Long past any time to turn back the clock.
More and more, both legal and illegal immigrants work in the black market, while draining the system of entitlements.
Even average Joe’s are seeing the benefit of the black market.
No sales or sin taxes, considerably lower prices (less ‘overhead’); as inflation kicks in, more people come onboard.
It shouldn’t be too long now (although government insanity can go on longer than you can maintain yours…)
When the checks stop, or the value of the dollar drops to nothing, the dynamic changes.
The crying days are over.
Only interesting times are ahead.
Said the same thing, nearly verbatim, to my son (born 1980 in USA) this morning. Born in ’46 myself, I fondly remember the USA of that era (pre-’65). Afterward? Not so much. Emigrated in ’97. My son joined me in 2010. Life where we live now reminds me in many ways of rural USA back in the day.
Congress does not work for you. They work for who pays them. That is the corporations. Until you realize that, there is no hope to turn things around. The first step in change has to be the elimination of all corporate campaign contributions. Until that happens, Congress will continue to screw the citizens for the benefit of the corporations.
This article is related and a good read. Admin might even consider making it its own post. The author has an email address listed on his site.
I am 58 years old and have been since I was 14. No, 13 as I lied about my age to get a work permit. Served 8 years between the Army and Texas National Guard. Worked to achieve an AAS in electronics with an avionics option. Attended a trade school and passed proficiency to earn an FAA rating of Airframe and Power Plant Mechanic as well as numerous other licenses and certification.
Also, in my lifetime I’ve supported two different families with children were not my own. Both of those children are on their own now and more successful than I am. I’m very proud of that.
I read your link though and I honestly can’t argue with very many of those 42 items. Now the kids I raised didn’t believe these things because I stayed on their ass. They knew I wasn’t going to support them forever.
The Boy is married and working in finance. They just bought their second home at 34 that is twice the size of mine. He drives a brand new Porsche Macan and they just blessed me with a two month old Gandson.
The Girl who is 24, finished her degree in Human Resources Management found her first full-time job with a major auto maker that recently moved to the area from Kalifornia. She and her Mother recently moved out after buying her first house. She now is supporting both her Mother and her Grandmother. They are Mexican by the way so that blows another stereotype.
My purpose is not to brag. No really, but I am proud of them both.
But to say that perhaps the problem today and why there are no workers is parenting.
Now that was interesting.
Plenty of excuses, the most obvious being the fear of failure or as I sometimes call it the fear of success. Remember it was just not too long ago how everybody was pumped up to being so special. Wonder what force suddenly changed the focus to everybody is really nothing or at the very least mundane?
There is a feeling of doom in the air.
No one to blame but ourselves. The people have allowed every intrusion in their lives and country, and the had the ability to prevent every damn thing any level of government has done to them. Want to place blame look in a mirror.
Rome fell in much the same way, we’re just doing it much much faster. .
If we were choosing English speaking educated Christian immigrants and trying to avoid liberals which is our National Right , the process would be an asset to our country. There are gold mines of people in South Africa, Europe, Asia (especially ex-British colonies), the Philippines, Japan, Venezuela, etc, and even China. But letting low IQ people flood in from Haiti, Mexico, Africa, the Middle East, etc, the immigration system is turned into suicide; much less letting Hussen-USAF Inc fly in millions of young male terrorist at night every year, which is insane treason, it’s gorilla war, and Useful Idiots will also pay the ultimate price so help me God.