Donald Trump Revives National
Program to Exclude Illegals from Jobs, By Neil Munro, 5/4/19, Breitbart.
President Donald Trump’s administration has quietly
reactivated a computer check that warns employers when their new employees are
likely to be illegal immigrants.
Democrats, however, are
protesting the new push to protect American families from illegal immigrants in
the nation’s job market.
The so-called “no-match” letter warns employers that their
employees’ claimed Social Security Numbers are suspect — and so allows the
employers to minimize their legal risks by quietly firing the employees who do
not have a right to work.
The program was stopped by President Barack Obama mainly
because it was so effective at warning employers.
“It is a very good
thing,” said Jessica Vaughan, policy director at the Center for Immigration
Studies. She continued: Our government knows the name, address, and place of
employment of millions of illegal workers … These jobs should be for Americans
and legal workers … the market would bring wages up to $15 an hour for more
workers if we didn’t have so much illegal employment.
The policy should also
identify the Social Security Numbers that have been stolen by illegals from
Americans, she said. The government, she said: knows that millions of Americans
have had their identity stolen by these workers … They know the scale of Social
Security Number misuse is massive — but they certainly don’t want to have to
deal with the millions of irate Americans who have to resolve misuse of their
SSN.
Many — but not all —
employers will cooperate and fire the illegals, she predicted. “A lot of
employers want to do the right thing, and they have been duped by false
documents, and they want to get into compliance with the law.” However, the new
policy will not deter the many employers who pay their illegal immigrants under
the table, she said.
But pro-migration
Democrats are denouncing Trump’s pro-employee reform. On May 2, a group of more
than 40 Democrats touted likely flaws in the wage-boosting process. In a letter to the Social Security
Administration, they wrote:
We are writing to
strongly oppose the directive to impose Employer Correction Request Notices
also referred [to] as “No-Match Letters.” This action will cause numerous
problems by diverting resources away from frontline workers whose primary
mission is administering benefits.
Additionally, this rule
can result in increased discrimination and abuses against U.S. workers,
particularly women.
The estimated cost of
roughly $1.3 million would be better spent delivering government benefits to
people and hiring more government workers, said the letter.
The Hill reported: “This is one more tool in their
arsenal, I think, to drive the community into the shadows of society, to create
more anti-immigrant sentiment in the country and just to create fear and
instability in communities with large immigrant populations,” said Rep. Jesús
García (D-Ill.), the lead signatory of the Democratic letter.
Garcia’s mention of the
“community” likely includes the population of illegal immigrants in his Chicago
district and the districts of other cosigners of the letter. The other
cosigners include Somali immigrant Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Indian immigrant
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), and Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA), who
represents a Los Angeles district that is almost entirely Latino and likely
includes many illegals.
The Democrats’ top
leadership did not sign the letter. The letter was
also endorsed by a large group of pro-migration
groups, including the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, the Latin
American Legal Defense and Education Fund, the NAACP, the Service Employees
International Union, and the United Food and Commercial Workers International
Union. Immigration lawyers also objected to the American protection program:
Each
year, roughly four million young Americans join the workforce after
graduating from high school or university.
But
the federal government then imports about 1.1 million legal immigrants and
refreshes a resident population of roughly 1.5 million white-collar visa
workers — including approximately 1 million H-1B workers — and approximately
500,000 blue-collar visa workers. The government also prints out more than 1
million work permits for foreigners and rarely punishes companies for employing
the population of at least 8 million illegal migrants who sneak across the
border or overstay their legal visas.
This policy of inflating
the labor supply boosts economic growth for investors because it ensures that employers
do not have to compete for American workers by offering higher wages and better
working conditions.
This policy of flooding the market with cheap foreign
white-collar graduates and blue-collar labor shifts enormous wealth from young employees towards older investors
even as it also widens wealth gaps, reduces high-tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, and
hurts children’s schools and college educations.
It also pushes Americans away from high-tech careers and sidelines
millions of marginalized Americans, including many who are
now struggling with fentanyl addictions. The
labor policy also moves business investment from the
heartland to the coasts, explodes rents, shrivels real estate values in the Midwest, and
rewards investors for creating low-tech, labor-intensive workplaces.
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