Cut to the chase—refugee labor is cheap labor,
by Ann
Corcoran 3/10/18
For
goodness sake, let’s have the debate. Do we need more low wage labor? That should be the debate. Anything else is just mud being thrown
around to confuse the taxpaying public and make people feel guilty about
questioning our LEGAL immigration programs.
For
instance, this story at something called ‘Workforce’ posits
that refugees’ greatest contributions are that their hiring brings much-needed
diversity to the work place—WTH!
Diversity! Like the diversity Muslim refugees bring when they file
lawsuits against meat packers for special prayer privileges in slaughter
plants?
And, just forget the
notion that the US Refugee Admissions Program is a solely humanitarian effort
on the part of the US—it is about the movement of labor around the world (and
about Democrat voters), but not first about welcoming the stranger!
Let me repeat! If America needs cheap
(compliant immigrant) labor, have that debate and leave the
diversity/humanitarian mumbo-jumbo out of it!
Here is Workforce: As immigration issues swirl around
businesses seeking to hire foreign talent, a new guide published by the Tent Foundation is still touting the benefits of
hiring refugees.
Hamdi Ulukaya the CEO of Chobani Yogurt,
here with George Soros discussing refugees, founded the Tent Foundation.
The “U.S. Employers’ Guide to Hiring Refugees” highlights
the positive aspects businesses reap when hiring refugees. Diversity tops the
list of what refugees bring to the workplace, according to Gideon Maltz,
executive director of Tent Foundation, a nonprofit organization that works with
businesses to help them integrate refugee workers into their workplace. Whether
it’s experience or language, refugees can provide new insights from their
respective countries.
The guide is here, written by the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service! “A more diverse workforce fosters new
ideas and innovations, which is necessary in our more competitive, global
market,” Maltz said. Finding those refugee workers poses a challenge, based on
recent statistics.
Based on the Tent Foundation guide, a
refugee is “an individual who is unable to return to his or her home country
due to a well-founded fear of persecution based on race, religion, nationality,
political opinion or social group.”
Employers have options beyond refugees if they
want to diversify their workforce with foreign workers. Immigrants on an H-1B visa, which allows
U.S. companies to employ foreign workers in specialty occupations, also bring
with them their foreign experiences and knowledge. [I’ve skipped most of the discussion about other legal immigration
programs to bring in foreign workers. The reporter seems to be mixing them up
with the refugee program anyway. Most refugees don’t come in with special
skills.—ed]
Burke [Richard Burke, CEO of Envoy Global, an enterprise platform that works with
companies to make the hiring and managing process of a global workforce easier]
reasoned that businesses could be putting more of an effort into introducing
more immigrants because they
see the benefit diversity brings to a company’s culture.
“To address the supply and demand
imbalance employers are saying, ‘We have opportunities, we want to grow, we
want to contribute to the economy,’ ” said Burke.
“But to do that we need the talent and
the workers to do it. And the only way to do it is through foreign national
talent.”
Envoy Global’s “2018 Immigration Trends
Report” looks at opinions of employers on immigration and their hiring
process. Based
on the report, businesses that would like to implement this strategy are
finding it difficult to do so in the face of the tougher immigration standards.
“Eighty-five percent of respondents say the U.S immigration program
policies have impacted their ability to hire,” said Burke. Contact the refugee
contractors! It
was the recently ousted Lutheran CEO Hartke who signed the deal with the Tent
Foundation to write their hiring guide.
We already know from past reporting that
some of the usual gang of nine
refugee contractors are
working with global meat companies to help them find and retain cheap
(compliant because they can’t go home!) refugee labor.
Workforce continues….
For potential employers that want to hire
refugees, Maltz advises them to reach out to their local resettlement agency
since those organizations can help with logistical details.
Managers should also prepare to spend
extra money on English as second language courses and other programs to help
new workers acclimate to their new home. “It may require some upfront
investments but these are small in relation to the benefits refugees will bring
to your company,” Maltz said.
Yup! They mention the “higher retention
rates” of refugee laborers. Of course, because again, they can’t go home and
are dependent on their handlers at the refugee contracting agencies for their
other needs.
See more on the Tent Foundation, here.
And, I wrote about it here (working with Lutheran head hunters at LIRS)! So cut the crap, stop throwing the mud
around, and have the debate about US labor shortages (does it exist and what is
the best way to deal with it, if it is even true)!
Here are the nine federal refugee
contractors. They have been complaining as their regular paying client numbers
(refugees) have declined during the Trump Administration. They pretend
their sole mission is humanitarian, but they work closely and receive funding
from big global corporations in addition to their generous contributions from
you—the taxpayer!
The original Refugee Act of 1980 that
set up this monstrosity, envisioned a public-private partnership that over the
years has almost completely morphed in to a federal program. Congress must
reform the program and get these supposedly non-profit middlemen out of the
process.
The number in parenthesis is the
percentage of their income paid by you (the taxpayer) to place the
refugees, line them up with jobs, and get them signed up for their services (aka welfare)! From most recent accounting, here.
·
Ethiopian
Community Development Council (ECDC) (secular)(93%)
·
International Rescue
Committee (IRC) (secular)
(66.5%)
·
US
Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) (secular) (98%)
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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