Oh Nooo! The DOW Is Tanking !!,So Who's Economy Is It Today? Obama Or Trump ?
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francoHFW
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funny how every respected journalist and law enforcement around the world agrees with them, and only your high school grad bought off GOP pundits agree with you, isn't it, brainwashed functional moron?
francoHFW
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Obviously this is the fault of the chaotic Obama tariffs and trade Wars, and the ongoing Obama tax rates, a giveaway to the rich, for 35 years now.
Wry Catcher
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Fake News exists: on the internet, on the AM radio dial and in every promise tweeted or spoken by ttump.
Redfish
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how about the promises being made by the 20+ clowns running for the dem nomination? how about the lying promises made by obozo and hillary? and Pelosi and Schumer, and the idiots of the squad?
wake up dude, all politicians lie. Trump is different because he is actually keeping some of his promises.
Wry Catcher
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Sure he did, in evading the question (that maybe too abstract for you to comprehend). Open the link, and listen to his response and then apologize for calling me a liar.
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'Oh Nooo! The DOW Is Tanking !!,So Who's Economy Is It Today? Obama Or Trump ?'
Hmmm...which Party has control of the house of Representatives, that controls the budget / purse strings / spending / economy, today?
Why, I do believe it is STILL the Democrats, run by Nancy Pelosi.
Perhaps her and Nadler could do their part to STOP running up the deficit by NOT spending any more money on their 3+ year Witch Hunt against the President....and maybe NOT continue to facilitate an approx. 60,000 more criminal illegals from flooding into the US each month.....and NOT continue to vow to explode the deficit by giving them 'free' health care, housing, food, education, etc....?!
Hmmm...which Party has control of the house of Representatives, that controls the budget / purse strings / spending / economy, today?
Why, I do believe it is STILL the Democrats, run by Nancy Pelosi.
Perhaps her and Nadler could do their part to STOP running up the deficit by NOT spending any more money on their 3+ year Witch Hunt against the President....and maybe NOT continue to facilitate an approx. 60,000 more criminal illegals from flooding into the US each month.....and NOT continue to vow to explode the deficit by giving them 'free' health care, housing, food, education, etc....?!
Wry Catcher
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The D's have been in power since January 2019; the budget, the Tax Reform (fraud) and ttump's trade wars are all the responsibility of the Republicans.
Your know that, and I know you are a damn liar.
Have a nice day.
He's like Trump Apologizes when pigs fly
pknopp
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I don't have to be.
Redfish
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Ok, wizard. What evidence can you produce to prove that Trump intentionally hired illegals and did not fire them as soon as they were discovered? put up or shut up. innuendo doesn't work here.
pknopp
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Is Trump responsible for his businesses or not?
Redfish
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sure, at the very top level. Is the CEO of Ford responsible to know every detail of every one of his thousands of employees?
pknopp
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Yes. We even passed Sarbanes/Oxley (though we don't enforce it) to make sure a CEO is responsible for what a company does.
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from the article:
"
canāt say that for sure,ā Morgan said. āThere are investigations going on all the time that youāre unaware of. ... Of course itās going to jeopardize the investigation if I come on here and I talk to you about an investigation thatās going on.ā
I don't see Trump or Trump companies in that sentence, do you?
so like I said, the article cited does not substantiate the claim that you guys made.
State of the Union
ā@CNNSotu
https://twitter.com/CNNSotu/status/1160546497546674176
.@jaketapper presses Acting CBP Commissioner Mark Morgan on undocumented workers that are reportedly employed at President Trumpās companies #CNNSOTU
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The question came days after a massive ICE raid on a Mississippi chicken processing plant. The worksite raid was one of the largest of its kind in US history; 680 people suspected to be unauthorized workers were abruptly arrested and separated from their families.
Tapper asked why employers who hire undocumented workers are not always punished along with the workers themselves; the host cited Syracuse Universityās immigration records research that found only 11 people and no companies were prosecuted for employing undocumented workers between the spring of 2018 and 2019. During the same time frame, 85,727 people were prosecuted for entering the US illegally.
Morgan responded that an investigation into the business that employed the undocumented workers in Mississippi is ongoing.
Among the companies that have not been prosecuted for employing undocumented laborers, however, are those owned by President Trump, despite the Trump Organization having reportedly hired undocumented workers for decades.
What we know about hiring at Trump properties
Multiple news outlets have reported on the Trump Organizationās longstanding reliance on the very people the president often discusses with derision: undocumented immigrants.
Most recently, the Washington Post reported on construction crews at Trump properties largely being composed of undocumented workers, even after Eric Trump, one of the presidentās sons and a Trump Organization executive, said the company was making a ābroad effortā to identify and fire undocumented laborers. One worker told the Post he was even instructed by a supervisor to buy fake documents on a street corner in New York City.
Employing workers without legal status gives the company a competitive advantage, industry officials told the Post. And undocumented laborers are less likely to risk job changes and less likely to complain if theyāre being mistreated.
Trump ādoesnāt want undocumented people in the country,ā one former Trump Organization worker, Jorge Castro, told the Post. āBut at his properties, he still has them.ā
Trumpās businesses rely heavily on documented foreign laborers as well. As Voxās Alexia FernĆ”ndez Campbell reported, the Trump Organization makes use of the USās H-2B visa program. Campbell found that only one out of 144 jobs available at Trump properties during 2016 and 2017 went to an American worker, and that the Trump administration has expanded access to H-2B visas:
The H-2B visa program allows seasonal, non-agricultural employers ā like hotels and ski resorts ā to hire foreign workers when they canāt find American ones. The Trump administration temporarily expanded this guest-worker program in 2017 while restricting other avenues of legal immigration, including the H-1B program for high-skilled workers.
Employers are supposed to attempt to find American workers before hiring H-2B immigrants, FernƔndez Campbell reported, but documents showed that Trump Organization hiring managers made the minimum required effort to recruit US citizens to fill the open positions.
Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, told FernĆ”ndez Campbell that the companyās reliance on H-2B visa holders, and Trumpās expansion of the program in 2017, creates a competitive advantage similar to the one gained by employing mostly undocumented workers: being able to avoid paying higher wages or better benefits for American workers.
There arenāt enough low-skilled American workers to fill demand
The Trump Organization has said it is making efforts to ensure all of its workers are citizens or documented immigrants. The company has fired nearly two dozen people due to their immigration status since the New York Times reported on undocumented workers at the Trump Organizationās golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, last December, and has adopted a system for verifying employment eligibility.
But firing undocumented workers ā and instituting widespread policies intended to flush them out of the US labor market ā may have the unintended consequence of placing stress on an economy desperately in need of low-skilled workers.
As FernƔndez Campbell reported:
Thereās practically no way for a low-skilled worker from Guatemala to āwait in lineā for a visa to take a job at a chicken processing plant in Mississippi. Only one such visa exists ā the EB-3 visa ā but itās limited to a tiny number of people (5,000 max).
Yet the US economy needs hundreds of thousands of workers to fill these jobs right now. The US is experiencing a serious labor shortage, and itās harder for businesses to find low-skilled workers these days than high-skilled workers.
As president, Trump has pushed an immigration plan that favors migrants prepared for high-skilled jobs and gives advantages to immigrants with advanced college degrees. But those jobs are, for the most part, already filled. There is a surplus of jobs available for low-skilled workers, however, and not enough Americans to fill them.
Immigrants who want to take those open jobs have two options, FernĆ”ndez Campbell writes: The H-2A program for farm workers and the H-2B program for seasonal workers, such as those working at Trump hotels. There are only around 75,000 visas available annually for those guest workers, and they donāt cover jobs like those at the plant raided last week in Mississippi.
The limits on those visas and the need to staff low-skilled positions have been some of the main reasons behind a spike in undocumented immigrants in the US since the 1990s, according to Madeleine Sumption and Demetrios Papademetriou of the Migration Policy Institute. There simply arenāt that many ways immigrants looking for low-skilled positions can legally get work in the US.
Trumpās policies may make the labor shortage worse, industry experts say, including at his own properties. If he hopes to keep the economy growing, it will require rethinking restrictive policies that have been the cornerstone of his platform.
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canāt say that for sure,ā Morgan said. āThere are investigations going on all the time that youāre unaware of. ... Of course itās going to jeopardize the investigation if I come on here and I talk to you about an investigation thatās going on.ā
State of the Union
ā@CNNSotu
https://twitter.com/CNNSotu/status/1160546497546674176
.@jaketapper presses Acting CBP Commissioner Mark Morgan on undocumented workers that are reportedly employed at President Trumpās companies #CNNSOTU
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8:40 AM - Aug 11, 2019
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The question came days after a massive ICE raid on a Mississippi chicken processing plant. The worksite raid was one of the largest of its kind in US history; 680 people suspected to be unauthorized workers were abruptly arrested and separated from their families.
Tapper asked why employers who hire undocumented workers are not always punished along with the workers themselves; the host cited Syracuse Universityās immigration records research that found only 11 people and no companies were prosecuted for employing undocumented workers between the spring of 2018 and 2019. During the same time frame, 85,727 people were prosecuted for entering the US illegally.
Morgan responded that an investigation into the business that employed the undocumented workers in Mississippi is ongoing.
Among the companies that have not been prosecuted for employing undocumented laborers, however, are those owned by President Trump, despite the Trump Organization having reportedly hired undocumented workers for decades.
What we know about hiring at Trump properties
Multiple news outlets have reported on the Trump Organizationās longstanding reliance on the very people the president often discusses with derision: undocumented immigrants.
Most recently, the Washington Post reported on construction crews at Trump properties largely being composed of undocumented workers, even after Eric Trump, one of the presidentās sons and a Trump Organization executive, said the company was making a ābroad effortā to identify and fire undocumented laborers. One worker told the Post he was even instructed by a supervisor to buy fake documents on a street corner in New York City.
Employing workers without legal status gives the company a competitive advantage, industry officials told the Post. And undocumented laborers are less likely to risk job changes and less likely to complain if theyāre being mistreated.
Trump ādoesnāt want undocumented people in the country,ā one former Trump Organization worker, Jorge Castro, told the Post. āBut at his properties, he still has them.ā
Trumpās businesses rely heavily on documented foreign laborers as well. As Voxās Alexia FernĆ”ndez Campbell reported, the Trump Organization makes use of the USās H-2B visa program. Campbell found that only one out of 144 jobs available at Trump properties during 2016 and 2017 went to an American worker, and that the Trump administration has expanded access to H-2B visas:
The H-2B visa program allows seasonal, non-agricultural employers ā like hotels and ski resorts ā to hire foreign workers when they canāt find American ones. The Trump administration temporarily expanded this guest-worker program in 2017 while restricting other avenues of legal immigration, including the H-1B program for high-skilled workers.
Employers are supposed to attempt to find American workers before hiring H-2B immigrants, FernƔndez Campbell reported, but documents showed that Trump Organization hiring managers made the minimum required effort to recruit US citizens to fill the open positions.
Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, told FernĆ”ndez Campbell that the companyās reliance on H-2B visa holders, and Trumpās expansion of the program in 2017, creates a competitive advantage similar to the one gained by employing mostly undocumented workers: being able to avoid paying higher wages or better benefits for American workers.
There arenāt enough low-skilled American workers to fill demand
The Trump Organization has said it is making efforts to ensure all of its workers are citizens or documented immigrants. The company has fired nearly two dozen people due to their immigration status since the New York Times reported on undocumented workers at the Trump Organizationās golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, last December, and has adopted a system for verifying employment eligibility.
But firing undocumented workers ā and instituting widespread policies intended to flush them out of the US labor market ā may have the unintended consequence of placing stress on an economy desperately in need of low-skilled workers.
As FernƔndez Campbell reported:
Thereās practically no way for a low-skilled worker from Guatemala to āwait in lineā for a visa to take a job at a chicken processing plant in Mississippi. Only one such visa exists ā the EB-3 visa ā but itās limited to a tiny number of people (5,000 max).
Yet the US economy needs hundreds of thousands of workers to fill these jobs right now. The US is experiencing a serious labor shortage, and itās harder for businesses to find low-skilled workers these days than high-skilled workers.
As president, Trump has pushed an immigration plan that favors migrants prepared for high-skilled jobs and gives advantages to immigrants with advanced college degrees. But those jobs are, for the most part, already filled. There is a surplus of jobs available for low-skilled workers, however, and not enough Americans to fill them.
Immigrants who want to take those open jobs have two options, FernĆ”ndez Campbell writes: The H-2A program for farm workers and the H-2B program for seasonal workers, such as those working at Trump hotels. There are only around 75,000 visas available annually for those guest workers, and they donāt cover jobs like those at the plant raided last week in Mississippi.
The limits on those visas and the need to staff low-skilled positions have been some of the main reasons behind a spike in undocumented immigrants in the US since the 1990s, according to Madeleine Sumption and Demetrios Papademetriou of the Migration Policy Institute. There simply arenāt that many ways immigrants looking for low-skilled positions can legally get work in the US.
Trumpās policies may make the labor shortage worse, industry experts say, including at his own properties. If he hopes to keep the economy growing, it will require rethinking restrictive policies that have been the cornerstone of his platform.
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Redfish
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the SOX law applies to financial dealings, not personnel. Nice try, got anything else I can refute?
pknopp
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It does deal with finances but a CEO or owner is responsible for their business.
Redfish
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so you really think that Bill Gates is responsible for knowing the details of each and every one of his hundreds of thousands of employees??? really?
pknopp
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He is responsible when his company does something illegal.
depotoo
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Their study was a sham. I found more in a few minutes than they did āresearchingā it.
from the article:
"
canāt say that for sure,ā Morgan said. āThere are investigations going on all the time that youāre unaware of. ... Of course itās going to jeopardize the investigation if I come on here and I talk to you about an investigation thatās going on.ā
I don't see Trump or Trump companies in that sentence, do you?
so like I said, the article cited does not substantiate the claim that you guys made.
State of the Union
ā@CNNSotu
.@jaketapper presses Acting CBP Commissioner Mark Morgan on undocumented workers that are reportedly employed at President Trumpās companies #CNNSOTU
590
8:40 AM - Aug 11, 2019
Twitter Ads info and privacy
520 people are talking about this
The question came days after a massive ICE raid on a Mississippi chicken processing plant. The worksite raid was one of the largest of its kind in US history; 680 people suspected to be unauthorized workers were abruptly arrested and separated from their families.
Tapper asked why employers who hire undocumented workers are not always punished along with the workers themselves; the host cited Syracuse Universityās immigration records research that found only 11 people and no companies were prosecuted for employing undocumented workers between the spring of 2018 and 2019. During the same time frame, 85,727 people were prosecuted for entering the US illegally.
Morgan responded that an investigation into the business that employed the undocumented workers in Mississippi is ongoing.
Among the companies that have not been prosecuted for employing undocumented laborers, however, are those owned by President Trump, despite the Trump Organization having reportedly hired undocumented workers for decades.
What we know about hiring at Trump properties
Multiple news outlets have reported on the Trump Organizationās longstanding reliance on the very people the president often discusses with derision: undocumented immigrants.
Most recently, the Washington Post reported on construction crews at Trump properties largely being composed of undocumented workers, even after Eric Trump, one of the presidentās sons and a Trump Organization executive, said the company was making a ābroad effortā to identify and fire undocumented laborers. One worker told the Post he was even instructed by a supervisor to buy fake documents on a street corner in New York City.
Employing workers without legal status gives the company a competitive advantage, industry officials told the Post. And undocumented laborers are less likely to risk job changes and less likely to complain if theyāre being mistreated.
Trump ādoesnāt want undocumented people in the country,ā one former Trump Organization worker, Jorge Castro, told the Post. āBut at his properties, he still has them.ā
Trumpās businesses rely heavily on documented foreign laborers as well. As Voxās Alexia FernĆ”ndez Campbell reported, the Trump Organization makes use of the USās H-2B visa program. Campbell found that only one out of 144 jobs available at Trump properties during 2016 and 2017 went to an American worker, and that the Trump administration has expanded access to H-2B visas:
The H-2B visa program allows seasonal, non-agricultural employers ā like hotels and ski resorts ā to hire foreign workers when they canāt find American ones. The Trump administration temporarily expanded this guest-worker program in 2017 while restricting other avenues of legal immigration, including the H-1B program for high-skilled workers.
Employers are supposed to attempt to find American workers before hiring H-2B immigrants, FernƔndez Campbell reported, but documents showed that Trump Organization hiring managers made the minimum required effort to recruit US citizens to fill the open positions.
Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, told FernĆ”ndez Campbell that the companyās reliance on H-2B visa holders, and Trumpās expansion of the program in 2017, creates a competitive advantage similar to the one gained by employing mostly undocumented workers: being able to avoid paying higher wages or better benefits for American workers.
There arenāt enough low-skilled American workers to fill demand
The Trump Organization has said it is making efforts to ensure all of its workers are citizens or documented immigrants. The company has fired nearly two dozen people due to their immigration status since the New York Times reported on undocumented workers at the Trump Organizationās golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, last December, and has adopted a system for verifying employment eligibility.
But firing undocumented workers ā and instituting widespread policies intended to flush them out of the US labor market ā may have the unintended consequence of placing stress on an economy desperately in need of low-skilled workers.
As FernƔndez Campbell reported:
Thereās practically no way for a low-skilled worker from Guatemala to āwait in lineā for a visa to take a job at a chicken processing plant in Mississippi. Only one such visa exists ā the EB-3 visa ā but itās limited to a tiny number of people (5,000 max).
Yet the US economy needs hundreds of thousands of workers to fill these jobs right now. The US is experiencing a serious labor shortage, and itās harder for businesses to find low-skilled workers these days than high-skilled workers.
As president, Trump has pushed an immigration plan that favors migrants prepared for high-skilled jobs and gives advantages to immigrants with advanced college degrees. But those jobs are, for the most part, already filled. There is a surplus of jobs available for low-skilled workers, however, and not enough Americans to fill them.
Immigrants who want to take those open jobs have two options, FernĆ”ndez Campbell writes: The H-2A program for farm workers and the H-2B program for seasonal workers, such as those working at Trump hotels. There are only around 75,000 visas available annually for those guest workers, and they donāt cover jobs like those at the plant raided last week in Mississippi.
The limits on those visas and the need to staff low-skilled positions have been some of the main reasons behind a spike in undocumented immigrants in the US since the 1990s, according to Madeleine Sumption and Demetrios Papademetriou of the Migration Policy Institute. There simply arenāt that many ways immigrants looking for low-skilled positions can legally get work in the US.
Trumpās policies may make the labor shortage worse, industry experts say, including at his own properties. If he hopes to keep the economy growing, it will require rethinking restrictive policies that have been the cornerstone of his platform.
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canāt say that for sure,ā Morgan said. āThere are investigations going on all the time that youāre unaware of. ... Of course itās going to jeopardize the investigation if I come on here and I talk to you about an investigation thatās going on.ā
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.@jaketapper presses Acting CBP Commissioner Mark Morgan on undocumented workers that are reportedly employed at President Trumpās companies #CNNSOTU
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The question came days after a massive ICE raid on a Mississippi chicken processing plant. The worksite raid was one of the largest of its kind in US history; 680 people suspected to be unauthorized workers were abruptly arrested and separated from their families.
Tapper asked why employers who hire undocumented workers are not always punished along with the workers themselves; the host cited Syracuse Universityās immigration records research that found only 11 people and no companies were prosecuted for employing undocumented workers between the spring of 2018 and 2019. During the same time frame, 85,727 people were prosecuted for entering the US illegally.
Morgan responded that an investigation into the business that employed the undocumented workers in Mississippi is ongoing.
Among the companies that have not been prosecuted for employing undocumented laborers, however, are those owned by President Trump, despite the Trump Organization having reportedly hired undocumented workers for decades.
What we know about hiring at Trump properties
Multiple news outlets have reported on the Trump Organizationās longstanding reliance on the very people the president often discusses with derision: undocumented immigrants.
Most recently, the Washington Post reported on construction crews at Trump properties largely being composed of undocumented workers, even after Eric Trump, one of the presidentās sons and a Trump Organization executive, said the company was making a ābroad effortā to identify and fire undocumented laborers. One worker told the Post he was even instructed by a supervisor to buy fake documents on a street corner in New York City.
Employing workers without legal status gives the company a competitive advantage, industry officials told the Post. And undocumented laborers are less likely to risk job changes and less likely to complain if theyāre being mistreated.
Trump ādoesnāt want undocumented people in the country,ā one former Trump Organization worker, Jorge Castro, told the Post. āBut at his properties, he still has them.ā
Trumpās businesses rely heavily on documented foreign laborers as well. As Voxās Alexia FernĆ”ndez Campbell reported, the Trump Organization makes use of the USās H-2B visa program. Campbell found that only one out of 144 jobs available at Trump properties during 2016 and 2017 went to an American worker, and that the Trump administration has expanded access to H-2B visas:
The H-2B visa program allows seasonal, non-agricultural employers ā like hotels and ski resorts ā to hire foreign workers when they canāt find American ones. The Trump administration temporarily expanded this guest-worker program in 2017 while restricting other avenues of legal immigration, including the H-1B program for high-skilled workers.
Employers are supposed to attempt to find American workers before hiring H-2B immigrants, FernƔndez Campbell reported, but documents showed that Trump Organization hiring managers made the minimum required effort to recruit US citizens to fill the open positions.
Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, told FernĆ”ndez Campbell that the companyās reliance on H-2B visa holders, and Trumpās expansion of the program in 2017, creates a competitive advantage similar to the one gained by employing mostly undocumented workers: being able to avoid paying higher wages or better benefits for American workers.
There arenāt enough low-skilled American workers to fill demand
The Trump Organization has said it is making efforts to ensure all of its workers are citizens or documented immigrants. The company has fired nearly two dozen people due to their immigration status since the New York Times reported on undocumented workers at the Trump Organizationās golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, last December, and has adopted a system for verifying employment eligibility.
But firing undocumented workers ā and instituting widespread policies intended to flush them out of the US labor market ā may have the unintended consequence of placing stress on an economy desperately in need of low-skilled workers.
As FernƔndez Campbell reported:
Thereās practically no way for a low-skilled worker from Guatemala to āwait in lineā for a visa to take a job at a chicken processing plant in Mississippi. Only one such visa exists ā the EB-3 visa ā but itās limited to a tiny number of people (5,000 max).
Yet the US economy needs hundreds of thousands of workers to fill these jobs right now. The US is experiencing a serious labor shortage, and itās harder for businesses to find low-skilled workers these days than high-skilled workers.
As president, Trump has pushed an immigration plan that favors migrants prepared for high-skilled jobs and gives advantages to immigrants with advanced college degrees. But those jobs are, for the most part, already filled. There is a surplus of jobs available for low-skilled workers, however, and not enough Americans to fill them.
Immigrants who want to take those open jobs have two options, FernĆ”ndez Campbell writes: The H-2A program for farm workers and the H-2B program for seasonal workers, such as those working at Trump hotels. There are only around 75,000 visas available annually for those guest workers, and they donāt cover jobs like those at the plant raided last week in Mississippi.
The limits on those visas and the need to staff low-skilled positions have been some of the main reasons behind a spike in undocumented immigrants in the US since the 1990s, according to Madeleine Sumption and Demetrios Papademetriou of the Migration Policy Institute. There simply arenāt that many ways immigrants looking for low-skilled positions can legally get work in the US.
Trumpās policies may make the labor shortage worse, industry experts say, including at his own properties. If he hopes to keep the economy growing, it will require rethinking restrictive policies that have been the cornerstone of his platform.
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