A lobbying group for wealthy investors predicts 300,000 job openings in the months leading up to the November 2018 mid-term election if Congress permits enforcement of immigration laws currently on the books.
The organization’s proposed 300,000 available jobs recognizes that employers must hire legal immigrants and Americans as President Trump gradually terminates the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, better known as DACA. Approximately 300,000 of the 690,000 illegals’ temporary work permits will be cancelled by the end of November. The remaining permits will expire in 2018.
The FWD.us investors’ organization doesn’t view the numerous job openings for law abiding immigrants and Americans as a positive outcome. Instead, they’re lamenting that thousands of illegals will lose their jobs in order to win a strategic immigration policy victory.
Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of Facebook, is one of the founders of FWD.us. Business groups like FWD.us are exploiting the DACA controversy to divert congressional and media attention from the pro-employee immigration principles that helped Trump gain residency at the White House. If Trump provides amnesty to the DACA recipients, he will have abandoned his popular immigration stance.
This decision would likely open the door for lobbyists to convince Congress to increase the supply of young white-collar visa workers. For instance, lobbyists might insist on bombarding the United States with more H-1B workers, L-1 visa workers, and Optional Practical Training, OPT, graduates. If these individuals are allowed to flood the American job market, a lowering of middle-aged American tech workers’ and legal immigrants’ salaries might occur. Any increases in the white-collar labor supply would probably decrease labor costs. While companies’ profits and investors’ returns would flourish, the hardworking American and legal immigrant could suffer.
Due to the different visa programs, approximately one million foreign white-collar workers are already employed at universities, engineering firms, fashion enterprises, computer companies, hospitals, and pharmacies.
The FWD.us report reveals an average of 30,383 jobs will be available to both Americans and legal immigrants every month during the eight months leading up to the November 2018 election. As DACA recipients vacate positions, employers might be forced to begin competing against each other for workers. A tight labor market would compel employers to raise wages. Employers might also be forced to locate, recruit, and train the millions of Americans who have been out of the workforce or untrained since the devastating crash of 2008.
Each year, an estimated four million young American adults enter the workforce while approximately one and a half million illegal and legal workers flow into the country. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, American wages have been stagnant since 1973 when inflation is factored in. Surprisingly, the business groups who are rallying for cheap labor on Capital Hill have received little push back from Republican senators despite Trump’s resounding win in 2016.
For instance, Senator Jerry Moran, a Republican from Kansas, supports fixing DACA. Over in the House, 14 Republican representatives recently urged a no-strings DACA amnesty approach. House Speaker Paul Ryan has created a task force to determine whether and how to deal with amnesty demands. Democrats want to provide unconditional, no-strings amnesty for 3 million young illegals. They even wish to allow these individuals the opportunity to bring millions of additional chain-migration immigrants with them.
President Obama formed DACA through an executive order in 2012. The act permits certain people, referred to as Dreamers, who come to the United States illegally as minors to be protected from immediate deportation. Dreamers may request “consideration of deferred action” for a period of two years. This request is renewable.
Deferred action doesn’t give Dreamers legal status, although it certainly makes obtaining it far easier. Those requesting DACA status must have been under the age of 31 on June 15, 2012, have come to the United States before their 16th birthdays, and have continuously lived in America since June 15, 2007. Individuals must also possess a high school diploma, have a GED certificate, have been honorably discharged from the military, or still be in school. Having a criminal record prevents one from receiving DACA status.
During Trump’s presidential bid, he often referred to DACA as “illegal amnesty”. In September, his administration announced plans to dismantle the controversial program. While the debate over DACA continues, American, legal immigrant, and illegal immigrant workers will likely tune in to see how their job statuses might be affected.
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Put our citizens first, not illegal aliens who have broken our laws. Come here legally or do not come at all.
We have to end birthright citizenship, chain immigration, sanctuary cities, and make e-verify mandatory. We also need to limit the visas, there are great jobs out there being taken from Americans and it is time we get those jobs back. We need end daca and send them home with all their brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, grandparents, and mom and dad. Most of these people go back and forth between here and Mexico all the time and have yet to learn English. It is time to get our own country back before it is to late.
AGREED!
It’s past time to END the Hb visas TOO; and hire AMERICAN kids; give the American dream back to them as it should be. DACA should never have been turned back to Congress again, as they’d already turned it down, which was why O implemented it via EO. It should have just simply been shut down and ended! And require E-Verify to stop all illegals having any job, increasing penalties to employers who hire them under the table etc. ALSO shut off ALL welfare, education, health care except ABCs, SNAP, section 8 housing, etc; they’ll self deport, because there’s no reason to stay!
That idiot we had as president for eight years has turned this country upside down and it’s taking President Trump to fix these horrendous problems that’s been draining our country. God bless our President and keep him safe.
I agree with you Sandra, but if some compromise isn’t made we’re going to wind up with all these DACA illegals that obama let in purposely. It’s 300,000 vs close to a million. Your statement about shutting off all cash, education, etc. wouldn’t work the way you want to it to. Crime would jump, and the democrats wouldn’t allow it. If the party our president belongs to would support him we could do so many things. But they’re turncoat RINOs who won’t back the President and his great ideas. I like it even less than you do. Even the FBI won’t give congress records that they subpoenaed months ago. You got anything we could do to stop deep state? I’d love to read it.
Enforce the law by protecting Our cities from invasion and boost employment of the rightful citizens.
How about letting everybody into the USA. They consume products and thus lead to a healthier economy.
Your an idiot the majority of them are on welfare and government subsidies
They also take jobs from actual citizens and send most of their money back to their home country. Don’t get me wrong I love immigrants, my husband is an immigrant. BUT he is a legal immigrant! He pays taxes and his money stays in this country. It is a slap in the face to those who have followed the law. Those that come here illegally are also more likely to break the law. So I say end DACA. Those that wanted to stay should have already taken care of the paperwork. If they have not then they need to figureit out. Why should our government have to solve all their problems? It is ridiculous, grow up and join the rest of the human race in taking care of yourself!
Sounds like a plan that could satiate both parties. Let’s use the laws on the books to keep a certain number of workers (depending on job openings), and deport illegals who would be here depending on Americans for all their needs. Sounds like a win win for the people who would be employed, and both parties.
The only way to great jobs and cut immigration at the same time is to fine all employers that hire illegal’s. This has to be done all across the country and once the illegal’s get the picture and realize they won’t be able to get a job they will leave or be deported.
Funny how they never stay in the first country they migrate through all ways push on to Europe or the USA or Australia. These are the so called political refugees that are being tortured back home you would think they be happy with the first piece of ground outside of their blood thirsty countries. They seem to move on to a rich nation with liberals that throw all your tax dollars into finding them homes and American jobs that we obvious don’t need for our people.
Illegal IS illegal….shred it how you may….the quickest way to destroy a country is via unrestricted emigration…add illegality and you are doomed…