Cutting Immigration Won't Do Low-skilled Workers Any Good

[usmbguest5318]

Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR) and David Perdue (R-GA) recently introduced the Reforming American Immigration for Strong Employment (RAISE) Act. If it were to become law, RAISE would cut legal immigration by 50 percent over the next ten years by reducing green cards for family members of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents, slashing refugees, and eliminating the diversity visa lottery. These goals are in line with President Trump’s stated objective to cut legal immigration in most categories.

Cotton and Perdue argue that the “generation-long influx of low-skilled labor has been a major factor in the downward pressure on the wages of working Americans, with the wages of recent immigrants hardest hit.” Let me ask you this. Assuming you think that's a rationally legit -- i.e., supportable with some figures that are credible and those figures militate for material value accruing from the action -- how great a reduction in green cards and (low wage) immigrant workers do you think it'd take to have an impact on the compensation paid to low-wage, low-skill workers for low-skill jobs?

Go on, take a stab at answering that question, be sure to show the math that supports your answer.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR) and David Perdue (R-GA) recently introduced the Reforming American Immigration for Strong Employment (RAISE) Act. If it were to become law, RAISE would cut legal immigration by 50 percent over the next ten years by reducing green cards for family members of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents, slashing refugees, and eliminating the diversity visa lottery. These goals are in line with President Trump’s stated objective to cut legal immigration in most categories.

Cotton and Perdue argue that the “generation-long influx of low-skilled labor has been a major factor in the downward pressure on the wages of working Americans, with the wages of recent immigrants hardest hit.” Let me ask you this. Assuming you think that's a rationally legit -- i.e., supportable with some figures that are credible and those figures militate for material value accruing from the action -- how great a reduction in green cards and (low wage) immigrant workers do you think it'd take to have an impact on the compensation paid to low-wage, low-skill workers for low-skill jobs?

Go on, take a stab at answering that question, be sure to show the math that supports your answer.

What is your source for the above? DailyKOS, ThinkProgress, Alternet? Where did you plagiarize from?

http://www.usnews.com/news/politics...-david-perdue-move-to-limit-legal-immigration

Cite your cut & paste.

 

[Fenton Lum]

Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR) and David Perdue (R-GA) recently introduced the Reforming American Immigration for Strong Employment (RAISE) Act. If it were to become law, RAISE would cut legal immigration by 50 percent over the next ten years by reducing green cards for family members of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents, slashing refugees, and eliminating the diversity visa lottery. These goals are in line with President Trump’s stated objective to cut legal immigration in most categories.

Cotton and Perdue argue that the “generation-long influx of low-skilled labor has been a major factor in the downward pressure on the wages of working Americans, with the wages of recent immigrants hardest hit.” Let me ask you this. Assuming you think that's a rationally legit -- i.e., supportable with some figures that are credible and those figures militate for material value accruing from the action -- how great a reduction in green cards and (low wage) immigrant workers do you think it'd take to have an impact on the compensation paid to low-wage, low-skill workers for low-skill jobs?

Go on, take a stab at answering that question, be sure to show the math that supports your answer.

Same old american economic and political system bullshit. All ya need is a half ass sloganeer and a cute acronym to creat another puff of "hope and change". The economic cannibalization of american society has not been interupted in the slightest; no election in and of itself will curb this now half century trajectory.

 

[william the wie]

Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR) and David Perdue (R-GA) recently introduced the Reforming American Immigration for Strong Employment (RAISE) Act. If it were to become law, RAISE would cut legal immigration by 50 percent over the next ten years by reducing green cards for family members of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents, slashing refugees, and eliminating the diversity visa lottery. These goals are in line with President Trump’s stated objective to cut legal immigration in most categories.

Cotton and Perdue argue that the “generation-long influx of low-skilled labor has been a major factor in the downward pressure on the wages of working Americans, with the wages of recent immigrants hardest hit.” Let me ask you this. Assuming you think that's a rationally legit -- i.e., supportable with some figures that are credible and those figures militate for material value accruing from the action -- how great a reduction in green cards and (low wage) immigrant workers do you think it'd take to have an impact on the compensation paid to low-wage, low-skill workers for low-skill jobs?

Go on, take a stab at answering that question, be sure to show the math that supports your answer.

What is your source for the above? DailyKOS, ThinkProgress, Alternet? Where did you plagiarize from?

http://www.usnews.com/news/politics...-david-perdue-move-to-limit-legal-immigration

Cite your cut & paste.

Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR) and David Perdue (R-GA) recently introduced the Reforming American Immigration for Strong Employment (RAISE) Act. If it were to become law, RAISE would cut legal immigration by 50 percent over the next ten years by reducing green cards for family members of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents, slashing refugees, and eliminating the diversity visa lottery. These goals are in line with President Trump’s stated objective to cut legal immigration in most categories.

Cotton and Perdue argue that the “generation-long influx of low-skilled labor has been a major factor in the downward pressure on the wages of working Americans, with the wages of recent immigrants hardest hit.” Let me ask you this. Assuming you think that's a rationally legit -- i.e., supportable with some figures that are credible and those figures militate for material value accruing from the action -- how great a reduction in green cards and (low wage) immigrant workers do you think it'd take to have an impact on the compensation paid to low-wage, low-skill workers for low-skill jobs?

Go on, take a stab at answering that question, be sure to show the math that supports your answer.

What is your source for the above? DailyKOS, ThinkProgress, Alternet? Where did you plagiarize from?

http://www.usnews.com/news/politics...-david-perdue-move-to-limit-legal-immigration

Cite your cut & paste.

Not necessarily a cut and paste. The vapor ware and over selling of different forms of automation is massive. Case in point all the threads dealing with AI sex robots making prostitution obsolete versus the cameras making prostitution legal by making it pornography meme that has been around for decades. Have you seen either of those things happen?

 

[saveliberty]

Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR) and David Perdue (R-GA) recently introduced the Reforming American Immigration for Strong Employment (RAISE) Act. If it were to become law, RAISE would cut legal immigration by 50 percent over the next ten years by reducing green cards for family members of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents, slashing refugees, and eliminating the diversity visa lottery. These goals are in line with President Trump’s stated objective to cut legal immigration in most categories.

Cotton and Perdue argue that the “generation-long influx of low-skilled labor has been a major factor in the downward pressure on the wages of working Americans, with the wages of recent immigrants hardest hit.” Let me ask you this. Assuming you think that's a rationally legit -- i.e., supportable with some figures that are credible and those figures militate for material value accruing from the action -- how great a reduction in green cards and (low wage) immigrant workers do you think it'd take to have an impact on the compensation paid to low-wage, low-skill workers for low-skill jobs?

Go on, take a stab at answering that question, be sure to show the math that supports your answer.

Global wages is the bigger problem, followed by domestic industry restrictions.

 

[usmbguest5318]

Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR) and David Perdue (R-GA) recently introduced the Reforming American Immigration for Strong Employment (RAISE) Act. If it were to become law, RAISE would cut legal immigration by 50 percent over the next ten years by reducing green cards for family members of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents, slashing refugees, and eliminating the diversity visa lottery. These goals are in line with President Trump’s stated objective to cut legal immigration in most categories.

Cotton and Perdue argue that the “generation-long influx of low-skilled labor has been a major factor in the downward pressure on the wages of working Americans, with the wages of recent immigrants hardest hit.” Let me ask you this. Assuming you think that's a rationally legit -- i.e., supportable with some figures that are credible and those figures militate for material value accruing from the action -- how great a reduction in green cards and (low wage) immigrant workers do you think it'd take to have an impact on the compensation paid to low-wage, low-skill workers for low-skill jobs?

Go on, take a stab at answering that question, be sure to show the math that supports your answer.

Global wages is the bigger problem, followed by domestic industry restrictions.

Maybe so; maybe not. You'd need to expound upon that statement with some details and thematic specificity before I could say whether I concur with it.