Savage mentions Zuckerberg, et al and cheap labor. There's a study released by Sen Sessions that quantifies the problem. It's worse than what I personally imagined.
Press Release from U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions
The overwhelming majority of immigration to the United States is
- the result of our visa policies.
- Each year, millions of visas are issued to
- temporary workers,
- foreign students,
- refugees,
- asylees, and
- permanent immigrants
- for admission into the United States.
- The lion’s share of these visas are for
- lesser-skilled and
- lower-paid workers and
- who,
- because they are here on work-authorized visas,
- are added directly to the same labor pool occupied by current unemployed jobseekers.
- Expressly because they are admitted into the U.S. on legal immigrant visas,
- most will be able to draw a wide range of taxpayer-funded benefits, and
- corporations will be allowed to directly substitute these workers for Americans.
- Improved border security would have no effect on the continued arrival of these
- new foreign workers,
- refugees, and
- permanent immigrants
—because they are all invited here by the federal government.