10 Mar 2021
Mark Zuckerberg’s FWD.us advocacy group is warning Democrat and GOP legislators to ignore jobs and wages when talking to voters about amnesty bills, and to instead tell stories about “family separation.”
In a FWD.us-funded polling memo by three Democrat polling companies, the legislators were advised that:
It is better to focus on all of the aforementioned sympathetic details of those affected [by an amnesty] than to make economic arguments, including arguments about wages or demand for labor. As we have seen in the past, talking about immigrants doing jobs Americans won’t do is not a helpful frame, and other economic arguments are less effective than what is recommended above.
problem with our workforce in america now pop mart of it is the kind of immigrants that come in. i m all for ending it and going for skills. and part of it we have a drastic need for quad-skilled people. we need welders, carpenters, cement finishers. but also some of the people in collier county and lee county that you represent, they don t have skills that match what you ve just listed there. i m getting to that part too. after we talked about high school, i did introduce a bill to introduce h-1 b program for high-skilled people and the skilled jobs and then the low-skilled jobs and we don t have enough team to do them either. our people in our district are crying for more h-2as.