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3 Jun 2021 President Joe Biden’s commerce secretary bolstered evidence of a deep split over immigration policy in the administration when she spurned demands by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for a greater inflow of foreign workers into U.S. jobs. The rejection was delivered Wednesday by commerce secretary Gina Raimondo when she joined an online session of business leaders who were demanding the government provide them with many indentured workers in place of hiring Americans. Raimondo’s de...

Joe Biden has exposed a deep split in his team by promising a tight labor market that pressures employers to offer higher wages to Americans.

AP Photo/Elaine Thompson 25 May 2021 The public’s rising demand for higher wages is causing turmoil in business sectors that have become reliant on cheap labor ensured by the federal government’s high immigration, wage-cutting policies. Michael Kanell at Georgia’s AJC.com provided an example in the restaurant sector: Jamie Oden bought an Amici restaurant franchise in Fayetteville which she plans to open later this month. To be fully staffed, she needs about 25 people. She has fewer tha...

11 May 2021 The federal government can reduce illegal migration by raising legal immigration, says a new pro-amnesty coalition of establishment leaders, including George W. Bush and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. “We can end the cycle of compromising situations at the southern border by ensuring that migrants have appropriate and accessible legal channels to migrate,” the May 11 announcement by the group says. The legal-ends-illegal claim “is completely absurd unless the position is that ...

12 Mar 2021 Two-thirds of entry-level tech jobs go to compliant foreign guest-workers, not to the young American professionals who may create a new wave of establishment-shaking companies, according to a report from Bloomberg. In 2018, “the U.S. had between 96,000 and 143,000 openings in IT occupa­tions that typically went to candidates with a bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science or engineering,” said the March 10 report, headlined “STEM Graduates Deserve a Better Path to Go...

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 o...

11 Feb 2021 Robots are replacing unskilled migrants in American farm jobs, but farmers still want skilled migrants to operate the robots, says the president of a major farm advocacy group. “While advances in robotics have replaced some farm jobs, we need skilled employees to manage that equipment,” said Zippy Duvall, the president of the American Farm Bureau Federation. In a February 3 post on the groups’ website, he wrote: U.S. agriculture needs a flexible guest-worker program that allo...

Tom Cotton: Joe Biden Will Keep Foreign Drug Dealers in U.S. 8 Feb 2021 Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) slammed President Joe Biden’s administration amid evidence that his deputies want to minimize the deportation of illegal migrants who are caught dealing deadly drugs. “It’s the Biden administration policy to allow illegal aliens to stay in America even after they: -Deal fentanyl and heroin -Commit fraud -Commit assault -Drive drunk -Launder money,” Cotton tweeted February 8. “More than 80,00...

President Biden's ICE agency will stop deporting migrants who violate Americans' right to their own national labor market, said the WashPost.

2 Feb 2021 President Joe Biden’s nominee to run the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) — and his pro-amnesty agenda — has been confirmed 56-43 with the help of votes from several GOP Senators. The confirmation of Alejandro Mayorkas gives him the legal authority as DHS Secretary to supercharge Biden’s amnesty and migration goals with a series of new policies, regulations, bureaucratic rules, and personnel picks. His confirmation was backed by several GOP senators, including Lisa Murko...