Trump Immigration Crackdown

[Will E Worm]

Trump Immigration Crackdown Leads to Higher Construction Wages


President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration is already having a positive impact on American workers through increased wages in the construction industry.

In a new report by Fox News, Texas construction companies admitted that Trump’s increased enforcement of immigration was forcing them to pay higher wages to U.S. construction workers.

Fox News reported:


“Half of the workers in construction in Texas are undocumented,” [Stan Marek, CEO of Marek Construction] said. “We do hear that there are a lot of illegals that are leaving the state, going to other states that don’t have the anti-immigrant sentiment and many of them are going back to Mexico.”

Ted Wilson with Residential Strategies, Inc. has run the numbers.

“We’ve seen direct construction costs climb by over 30 percent,” Wilson said, “and a lot of that is directly attributed to what builders are having to pay their subs and trades in wages.”

Meaning, with so few workers out there, construction companies have had to pay more to attract them, which adds to the cost of a home.

Higher Wages

 

[Jack Davenport]

Hail!

MAGA

#FuckTheLeft

 

[bobjustbob]

It's gotta be higher wages at home. Shut off the market from cheap labor from overseas. It's the same thing as shipping jobs. I don't know what the fucking problem is. If your company can't make wages under the current wage and hour laws, close or sell your business. OR, you with the money work more hours. Drill the holes and assemble the products and ship them. Not a problem with me. Long hours and hard work have always been positives. Cheap labor only lasts for a short time. At some point cheap labor will move on and be your competitor.

 

[Johan]

Actually, Trump LOVES foreign workers...

Trump Needs To Get His Story Straight On Low-Skilled Foreign Workers


Are these folks stealing jobs, or are they doing the jobs that others won’t do? It can’t be both.

The Trump administration got behind a proposal Wednesday that would dramatically curtail immigration to the U.S. The RAISE Act, sponsored by Sens. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and David Perdue (R-Ga.), would make it harder to come to the U.S. legally, and would favor foreigners with higher work skills and education levels.
Stephen Miller, a senior adviser to the president, told reporters that the proposal to cut back immigration ― a plan expected to face heavy opposition from Democrats and many Republicans ― was meant to help American workers who’ve been hurt by an influx of low-skilled labor.
“The president of the United States said, ‘I am taking a stand today for American workers and the American economy, and we’re putting American families first on immigration,’” Miller said, between arguments with individual reporters. “Our compassion, first and foremost, is for struggling American families.”

The idea is simple enough. By cutting back on the number of lower-skilled immigrants coming to the U.S., the theory goes, the administration can make more job openings available to American-born workers. And with a tighter labor market, employers will have to raise wages to the point where those Americans are willing to do the work.

Trouble is, Donald Trump has not been willing to actually test that theory ― either as a businessman or as president.
Trump’s family golf clubs, winery and Mar-a-Lago club infamously rely on seasonal foreign workers who come to the U.S. on visas, to be paid according to government-set prevailing wages.
When the Trumps apply for these visas with the government, they have to attest that they are having trouble finding locals to work as cooks, housekeepers and so on. According to BuzzFeed’s count, Mar-a-Lago and the Trump National Golf Club in nearby Jupiter, Florida, have between them asked for at least 230 foreign workers since Trump took office.
Trump insists it’s impossible to find good help during the high season in Florida. Perhaps Miller can connect Mar-a-Lago with some of those struggling American families.

Even more telling are the administration’s recent actions on the H-2B visa program ― the same one used year after year at Mar-a-Lago.
Politicians from both sides of the aisle have argued that the H-2B program undercuts local workers and depresses wages. But just two weeks ago, the White House said it would allow employers to bring in an additional 15,000 temporary workers from abroad under the program this fiscal year. The extra workers would help hotels, landscapers and other businesses that claim they can’t find enough Americans to do the jobs.
Judging from Trump’s plan to slash legal immigration, one would expect the White House to limit H-2B visas, not add them. If a Maine hotel can’t find a maid, it should have to raise its wages until an American applies for the gig ― or at least that’s what one would expect from Miller’s talk.

Then again, there’s no reason to think the two policies should be entirely consistent with one another: The administration’s actions on the H-2B program have an immediate, real-world effect on employment, whereas the immigration plan is a mostly theoretical exercise unlikely to become law.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...b0fa1575fbd9a1


Once again, Trump doesn't play by the rules he sets : He says he want to reduce immigration but he hires foreign workers. Just like when he advocates for American workers, for bringing back to America companies who had delocated their production to China or India despite the fact that Ivanka's products are made in China by chinese workers working under chinese labor laws. Because it allows her to reduce production costs and raise profits.

Do as I say, not as I do seems to be the motto of this presidency...

 

[Jack Davenport]

^^^^^^^

Trump also used to be a Democrat.

I don't really give a shit. That lying cunt in a pantsuit isn't president.

That alone makes me ecstatic.


#Schadenboner

 

[bobjustbob]

Jo, you don't seem to be bothered by the proposal... or do you? Shit or get off the pot. Is it right to make exceptions just to bring in cheap labor? Cheap labor meaning human beings. I'm sick of this. On the one hand it's capture the boarder jumpers but on the same token, working for half wages is okay.

Immigration is one thing. Boarder jumping is another. And I don't want the people doing their due processes to citizenship to get fucked over. Paco gets in here inside of a truck. Picks grapes to get his brother on the next truck across the boarder. No, I don't like those kind of rules. Easing the requirements is okay by me. Expand the numbers too. But you've gotta get in line. If you are to be found to come here without the legal processes, you get cuffed and onto a bus south. And I don't care about your family. You didn't care about that risk when you hopped on that truck.

 

[Johan]

I'm not against cracking down illegal immigration. With the exception that, once an illegal has spent let's say 10 years here, has had a job for a long time, has a home, has his kids going to school here, he should be authorised to stay, because his life is now here, it's no longer in the country he left.

But also if you want to crackdown illegal immigration, don't only get border-jumer back on bus back the opposite side of the border because wht they'll do is try again tomorrow. I dfon't know how but we gotta make something to make them not trying again the day they get bck to the opposite side.
And don't forget those people who make living taking ransom from immigrants in exchange for "protection" or "safe passage". The ones who tell Paco his life would be better in the US and they know how to make him cross the border, the ones who will provide immigrants a truck they can jump in and, if they get caught have the driver say he never knew there was 15 mexicans in the back of his truck...

 

[Will E Worm]

I'm not against cracking down illegal immigration. With the exception that, once an illegal has spent let's say 10 years here, has had a job for a long time, has a home, has his kids going to school here, he should be authorised to stay, because his life is now here, it's no longer in the country he left.

So, you're saying any criminal that gets away with their crime for a set amount of time should just be left alone?

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