Trump Reverses Wage-Boosting Campaign Commitment, Demands More Legal Immigration: ‘We Need People’

Breitbart ^ | 2/6/2019 | John Binder

[central_va]

FUMEWZILLA

[sailor76]

You better be right, because if you're wrong, we were sold a bill of goods again.

I think Coulter's worries are shared by a lot more than you think.

[central_va]

FUDR

[central_va]

Looks like Breitbart posters are smarter on the issue than the average Freeper.

They always leave out the 'at the wage we're willing to pay' part of the equation. You keep jacking that wage up and they will have more applicants than they know what to do with. It's the whole 'raising the wages' thing that they object to because that cuts into profits for them.

The real trick is to see which ones will raise wages and which ones will spend that money lobbying congress to change laws to allow cheap labor into the country to increase profits.

Oh, and then they'll tell the rest of us to "Learn to Code......."

MrToad21

[central_va]

Another sample of the great posts at Breitbart:

Only took the Globalists a little over 2 years to get to you and subvert your position on immigration.

I remember you saying you wanted to STOP all immigration until such time as we could figure out what was happening. I guess you figured it out all by yourself.

Did you have help from the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR? I remember when you said they should be banned from operating in the US since they are BOTH TERRORIST organizations.

Ace Wheeler

[The Toll]

Liberal Immigration Law + Welfare State = Death Sentence

[ncalburt]

That is utter nonsense .
That is Jeb Bush bot talk
We don't need any more imported Cheap foreign engineers .

We have plenty of under employed Americans college grads .

Its just cheap white collar labor and screwing us and driving away our kids future .

I knew this from my own company not hiring American kids .

Is India letting our American grads invade and take jobs ?
Is Japan ?
Is Australia ?

No , only here we sell out our citizens futures
for a buck .

,Sell that Koch Bros cheap express spin to some sucker .

We have a surplus of unemployed Americans .

[central_va]

America is a country of 401K hawks and back stabbing greedy m’fers.

[central_va]

Reading the posts at Breitbart puts Free Republic to shame. At least most of them get it!

[old curmudgeon]

So you would refuse a future Einstein or Von Braun

[StolarStorm]

Exactly. The unemployment number doesn't reflect those who are underemployed or not being counted. It's a fraudulent number. Plenty of people are available. Perhaps not at the 50% of average wage rates companies like to pay h1bs. THIS is all about wage suppression and age discrimination, not shortage.

I know for a FACT, that companies often receive large amounts of fully qualified applicants for tech positions but would rather leave the jobs unfilled than hire an American over 40 years old, sometimes regardless of asking salary. Obviously YMMV and this doesn't apply to every company, but I've seen it at four companies first hand.

[Brown Deer]

If you don’t like the Free Republic, then leave!

[central_va]

In this case I did leave Free Republic which is way behind on a this issue - unbridled immigration.

[SuperLuminal]

Some idiots wouldn’t recognize a classical “rope-a-dope” if it bit them on the ass..

[ncalburt]

I just see a sea of Patels from India stealing
American kids jobs straight out of college .

You are too far removed from our college kids world they are being screwed.

I know numerous kids facing a future of underemployment because they are not cheap foreign labor that big corporations save millions on .

You need to really visit that world

[ncalburt]

You are so right .

There is no labor shortage .

Its flat out discrimination against American workers !

Trump is part of the Jeb Bush Wing now on this topic.

Its shocking .

[ncalburt]

You compared brilliant scientists fleeing Hitler to the Sea of Indians Chinas and Paki stealing Americans white collar jobs because they are cheap and they are tax perk .

Visit Franklin
TN and see the Sea of Indians that stole previous American engineering jobs at the Nissan plant or Greenville SC same situation .

Its a disgusting disgrace to treat your fellow countrymen this way .

[zeestephen]

Thanks for your helpful Comments.

The OPT numbers from Wiki look strange - there were 275,000 total OPTs in 2017. It's possible the Wiki numbers are just first year OPT applicants and do not include renewals.

After reviewing the relevant data for the last three years on the number of Chinese STEM grad students, OPTs, H-1Bs, Green Cards, and Naturalizations, the number of Chinese nationals in each one of those categories has gone up almost every year, and China is ranked #1, #2, or #3 in each one of those categories.

To me, it looks like Chinese students and adults are at or near the country quota for almost every USA program they can apply for.

[zeestephen]

Re: “So you would refuse a future Einstein or Von Braun.”

If the price tag is millions of new Democrat voters and hundreds of thousands of completely average engineers and scientists from Third World countries, then, yes, I would refuse Einstein and Von Braun.

[Crucial]

I didn’t know the situation was any different in their home countries. I suppose they have some kind of caste system which partially explains the uptick of violence in Western European countries.