The US is facing a labor shortage — immigration is the solution

The Hill ^ | 08/18/2023 | OHANNES LANG AND ZUZANA CEPLA

[Brian Griffin]

Natural immunity nurse, get your Covid jab or get lost.

That indicates there is no nursing shortage.

[KarlInOhio]

This week the Democrats cry about a labor shortage and demand more immigrants. Next week they will cry about the wages of the working man dropping in real terms and demand more unions. The will never admit that the first causes the second.

As we become a more and more socialist country, every warm body (working or not) incurs a cost to society through government paid schools, medicine, roads, food stamps, housing and just the general misery of more and more crowding. I doubt the labor value of an unskilled immigrant covers that cost so that we come out poorer for each one that comes in.

[Feckless]

No, stop paying Americans to not work and deport ALL Illegals.

[meyer]

Nope - we have too many freeloaders in the country already - no need to import more. How about cutting off welfare to all but those that absolutely can’t work - no work, no food. The labor shortage would end abruptly.

[Farmerbob]

Agree, and stop shoveling money for a 4-6-8 year college lifestyle on a worthless degree.

[meyer]

The government needs to do the job of filtering out the sewage.

The government needs to close the valve and enforce the border with military force. We don't NEED any extra labor. That's pure malarkey.

When they say they need more labor, what they really mean is that they want people to work at third-world wages, under the table, with a wink and a nudge from government. All while they deport skilled manufacturing jobs to third world countries like China.

[Vaduz]

No need to change to U.S. immigration policy just enforce it.

Identify
Locate
Deport

Not filtering the bad is why we have this mess we have now.

[central_va]

Waht utter horse sh!t.

There is never a labor shortage only a wage shortage.

[central_va]

Wages are skyrocketing!!! /sarc

[central_va]

LEGAL immigration is detroying the US working class more than bottom feeding illegal immigration.

[central_va]

Immigration does not solve labour shortages. Much of the labour shortage is people who won’t work, kids, women and white males who have figured out that there is no advancement for them any more at the wages being offered.

Fixed it.

[Tennessee Nana]

When I IMMIGRATED to the US in 1971 I had to

Have an excellent employment record for several years.

Be employable

Be willing and likely to work

Have a clean background report

Have clean police report

Have someone other than a family member swear in writing that they had known me constantly and currently longer than 5 years and that I was a good person.

Wait 90 days until I received my Alien Registration Card AKA a Green Card before I started to work

Have $1,000 on arrival to pay for my own support until I could work

(The $1,000 would also be used to pay for my plane ticket if I was deported in the 1st 90 days)

be healthy and disease free and get shots

Pay fees

Swear I would not apply for any government assistance, or I would be deported

The English proficiency requirement came when I had to prove I could speak, understand and read and write English to become an American citizen.

However most jobs required English.

[central_va]

Yes we need a round up now.

[central_va]

That comment is predicated on we need more LEGAL immigration - WHICH WE DON’T NEED.

[central_va]

I have said for a long time that the biggest problem we face in the U.S. in our labor market is that too many people are simply unemployable. The numbers are probably staggering.

Pay more. People will work harder and get training on their own.

[dragonblustar]

Bunk! Companies have gotten rid of white guys because of DEI and other diversity programs. Then the top companies continue to outsource white collar jobs while shipping manufacturing jobs to china! I’ve seen it a thousand times where companies post job openings for jobs that don’t exist then they go to the government crying there are no workers to fill these jobs. It’s all bullsh-t from the damn communist globalists!

[central_va]

That's a good solution. It probably wouldn't work in the area where I live ... because we have dozens of employers competing for the same workers.

Pay more. People will relocate for better opportunity. I have done that 4 times in my working life.

Many, many "right-wingers" do not believe in the free market for labor and wages. Many of them are right here on Free Republic.

[cuz1961]

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both the Russian and Chinese Communist parties

never would have come to power in those 2 countries

with out

the Marxists in the United States

help.

They were here then
and their commie spawn are still in our government.

They are on the cusp of handing our country and the world to the CCP.

This is the history our public schools made sure we never heard.

Push this out to everyone

[DoughtyOne]

It gets so tedious the claim Americans won’t work. The ones that want to eat will.

[Myrddin]

My youngest son worked at the local Walmart in 2011. I went to the store and encountered his boss. She commented that many of the new hires don't really want to work. They think that just showing up during the scheduled shift is worthy of being paid. When they discover that actual work is required, they don't come back. She was clearly frustrated with the lack of good work ethics.