The entire business world, you guys, according to Bess Levin at Vanity Fair (black bold hers. Red is mine)
THE BUSINESS WORLD IS LIVID OVER TRUMP’S IMMIGRATION “TRAIN WRECKâ€
The president’s DACA sabotage is doing him no favors in corporate America.
Despite claiming over and over that he has a “big heart†where DACA recipients are concerned, that he wants to come up with a solution before the March 5 deadline he set, and that if lawmakers came to him with an agreement, “I will be signing it,†Trump this week chose to torpedo Congress’s best stab at a bipartisan deal. With four proposed Senate bills to protect the Dreamers from deportation, the White House chose to “work vigorously to oppose†a centrist bill that had the best chances of passing, with the Department of Homeland Security claiming it amounted to “mass amnesty for over 10 million illegal aliens.†While the Common Sense Coalition measure, sponsored by eight Republicans, seven Democrats, and one independent, would have provided $25 billion for border security, including Trump‘s precious wall, it would have done so over a period of 10 years and not immediately, [as the man-child in the Oval Office has demanded. “I don’t think the president helped very much,†Senator Lindsey Graham, told The New York Times, adding, “As long as the president allows Steve Miller and others to run the show down there, we’re never going to get anywhere.†Thanks to Congress’s paralysis, experts estimate that more than 100 DACA recipients are losing their status daily. And Trump’s pals in corporate America are pissed.
“I’ve been very worried for quite a while that I was watching a train wreck in slow motion, and yesterday we had that train wreck,â€Â Tamar Jacoby, president of ImmigrationWorks USA, an alliance of small businesses, told the Financial Times. Echoing the sentiment was Jay Timmons, president of the National Association of Manufacturers, who noted: “We have people who are working here contributing to our society. Many of them are in the manufacturing sector. We don’t want to lose those folks. And frankly our country shouldn’t want to lose those folks—especially in manufacturing where we have 364,000 open jobs.†Earlier in the week, Goldman Sachs chief Lloyd Blankfein said in interview, “I couldn’t bear the idea of sending outside the country someone who grew up here his or her entire life,†adding that “over time, immigrants add to the economy because they bring in skills,â€Â a data point the administration would rather not hear. To that end, the Cato Institute estimates that if the employers lost all of their DACA employees, it would set businesses back $6.3 billion in worker-turnover costs.
Interesting. That’s the entire corporate world. Goldman Sachs (I thought liberals hated GS?), the president of the National Association of Manufacturers (what does the rank and file think, and why isn’t the NAM looking to attract Americans?), and an illegal aliens supporting group, ImmigrationWorks, which places illegal aliens and non-US citizens over US citizens.
You’d think a guy who just delivered a billion-dollar tax break to corporations would remain invested in keeping those corporations happy. But of course, Trump doesn’t deal in facts, so such negotiating points will be lost on him.
So, keeping corporations happy means legalizing all those illegals so they can work low level, low pay jobs? I thought Dreamers were super smart and totally awesome. No?
Funny how Liberals always want to put Americans after illegal aliens.
Lots of funny writing in the article:
LOL
t-Rumphole trolls America daily. “I’ll sign it!” No he won’t. He had no intention of resolving this issue – it benefits him with his White Nationalist (the WAZI Party) base too, too much. He was trolling us. He wants to see the first Dreamers in handcuffs on FOX News soon. As do his WAZI followers.
Jeffery forgot the next part of azi.
Socialist. It was the German National Socialist Party.
And Jeffery lost to Trump.
Again.
Our esteemed host wrote:
If they are forced to take their awesomeness back to their native lands, then won’t that contribute to the uplifting of the shithole countries from which they came? How can that not be a good thing, even from a leftist perspective? Wouldn’t our oh-so-noble friends on the left want to see Mexico become a place where far more people can live and prosper, rather than a place creating ever more economic refugees?
Leftists and Globalists who run these companies along along with the Mexican government want to keep Mexicans poor. Companies want cheap labor to work in their factories, take care of their homes and clean their tables. Mexico wants the remittances to make things look better at home.
The left wants everyone to think all Dreamers are the cream of the crop, highly educated and hard workers. But the truth is many are criminals and lazy bumbs just looking to cash in on America’s largess.
Can you prove that you’re here legally?
Why yes I can. Oh, Obama called and said he was missing your head up his ass.
Can you say that again, you’re hard to understand with t-Rumps manhood in your mouth.
Can we see your proof of citizenship? We have reason to suspect you’re an illegal. In fact we’re going have to call ICE.
I guess that shit in your ears has made you deaf Jeff. Once again you project your leftist dreams of Trumps cock in your mouth after he put it in your ass on election night. If ICE does show up they will see all my proper IDs of birth and citizenship including my military service.
Nice try Jeff.
Yes. Easily.
That’s just your ignorance and bigotry talking. Most of the Dreamers are hard-working, some in college, some in the military. Not all Mexican-Americans here are migrant workers, gardeners and hotel cleaners. One solution to companies cheating migrant workers would be to legalize their work status.
But the tRumpists (The TRAZI Party) have only one solution, handcuffs and deportation ’cause LAW! It never occurs to them that laws can be changed.
“That’s just your ignorance and bigotry talking. Most of the Dreamers are hard-working, some in college, some in the military. Not all Mexican-Americans here are migrant workers, gardeners and hotel cleaners. One solution to companies cheating migrant workers would be to legalize their work status.”
That would unfairly impact citizens that have a harder time getting jobs, such as blacks and other legal minority citizens. Why do you hate blacks?
That’s just YOUR ignorance and bigotry…
Don’t you believe in competition? Black Americans don’t have a higher unemployment rate because of Mexicans, it’s because of institutional racism built into the American economy by white elites.
Surely you’ve had econ, macro and microecon? Reason it out how an extra 50 million competitors would be better for black applicants.
Institutional racism? Black Americans, primarily black males, drop out of high school at far higher rates than white Americans. This lowers their matriculation rate in college, and lowers black aggregate success in the workplace. Yet the public schools are free, and per-pupil expenditures tend to be higher in the densely populated urban areas in which black Americans are more likely to live.
In that most liberal of American cities, Boston, Massachusetts, median black family wealth is the cost of a case of Mountain Dew.
The greatest single thing people can do to improve their financial situation is to get married, yet the United States shows striking racial and ethnic differences in marriage patterns.
Can you tell me how the “institutional racism built into the American economy by white elites” has forced black Americans to so frequently take the poor economic decision to avoid marriage and have bring up their children in single-parent households?
In 2012, Whites graduated HS at a national rate of 85% and Blacks at 70%. The gap has been shrinking since. Accounting for poverty shrinks the gap. And as you know Whites have greater incomes and wealth than Blacks and lower unemployment rates.
It’s encouraging that you cited the Raley, Sweeney and Wondra paper. Did you read it? Did you give any thought to the reasons they gave for why Black women marriage rates are lower?
Poor Whites make the same poor decisions as poor Blacks. Is it possible poverty contributes to the poor decision making as much as does genetics?
Poverty doesn’t create crime, criminality creates poverty. The poorest region in the US is the Appalatians, one would expect the highest crime rates but that is not the case. Criminal behavior and single parenthood explains results. Fix the culture, fix the results.
Except it was 86% for whites and 69% for blacks. Helps when you have schools like the one in DC that graduated everyone even though half of the graduates missed more than three months of school -unexcused. One in five students was absent more than present — missing more than 90 days of school.
Whether poverty contributes to poor decision taking — and you do not make a decision, you take a decision — is irrelevant; those decisions have been taken, and those decisions have economic consequences. We cannot compel people to take decisions that their betters — and yes, I am referring to the fact that the patricians believe that they have the right to take those decisions for the plebeians — and thus it isn’t the “institutional racism built into the American economy by white elites” which is forcing those decisions, but the mentality of the people taking them.
Actually, it’s culture, not genetics. Black Americans did not always take such poor decisions, in the aggregate, as are being taken today. The black illegitimacy rate has always been higher than that for whites in America, but it used to be far, far lower.
No, they have a higher unemployment rate due to the choices they make. The only “institutional racism†going on in this country is Affirmative Action.
“Not because of Mexicansâ€. Yet the latest I saw was that black unemployment was at its lowest level in decades.
As usual, liberals have their heads up their butts. Here’s a recent study from Arizona showing about twice the crime rate for the invaders, and when the state started to deport them, wages for farm workers went up. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/01/16/dreamer-age-illegals-crime-rate-double-young-americans-says-report/
Liberals, who are supposedly against “income inequalityâ€, none the less want to keep this stream of low-skilled, and low educated “dreamers†(more like demanders) coming into the country. Which of course would just increase income inequality. It’s almost like they’re clueless about basic economics.
No. Those aren’t the bills on the table, are they. They want fairness for the Dreamers already here by no fault of their own. The Dreamers are not streaming in now, they are already here.
They also believe in border security, but also know that OVER HALF of “illegals” are from visa overstays, not climbing a fence, so The Wall, while expensive, won’t stop illegal immigration. Even Cons can understand the racial implications of why they want a Wall but don’t seem concerned about the more important visa overstays.
The proposed wall will not stop illegal immigration, but it will slow it down.
Visa overstays are a serious problem — the September 11 hijackers overstayed their visas — one that the Trump Administration needs to address. We need to do both things: build the wall and keep track of visa overstays, and arrest and deport those who do so.
Since 2007, over half of “illegals” are from visa overstays.
Why do Conservatives ignore the visa overstays? We know the answer.
When you hear conservatives asking that immigration laws be followed, do you hear them say “except for visa overstays”? Because I’ve never seen that, link or support article if you please?
So in other words they increase income inequality and have higher crime rates.
No and no. But you know that.
Do you guys know anything or do you rely on white-wing blogs for all your info?
Sure thing, now explain how unfettered legal and illegal immigration benefits the less fortunate in America? Math is hard.
HillaryBill,
Any time a Con Man starts feigning concern for the less fortunate it’s time to start counting the silverware.
Thank goodness we don’t have unfettered immigration, legal or illegal.
Now explain how not having immigration benefits America?
Math is not that hard.
“Thank goodness we don’t have unfettered immigration, legal or illegal.”
Explain how we don’t in de facto if not in de jure?
Can you refute anything or can you just say “right wing blogs�
It’s extremely difficult to tell the difference between a “right wing blog†and a right wing blog that references a published research paper. As evidence, see the above
Should America suspend the H2B visa program? tRump brings in hundreds of foreign workers each year to staff his properties. For example in 2016 he had 144 openings and hired a single American – the rest were foreign workers.
tRump: Hire American! Except for Me.
The H2B visas bring in good immigrants, people with actual jobs lined up and skills valued by employers. No one here is protesting legal controlled immigration.
We’re not sure that that is true, but we’re pleased to hear you state it.
In general the tRump administration is lobbying and working to significantly tighten LEGAL immigration.
“In general the tRump administration is lobbying and working to significantly tighten LEGAL immigration.”
Explain how that is not “legal immigration”?
As I said, it IS legal immigration. He is trying to tighten legal immigration by executive fiat, because Congress sucks donkey.
tRump brought in (and continues to bring in) hundreds of H2B visa workers as cooks, servers, groundskeepers, attendants etc. Are you really claiming there were no Americans who could fill these positions?
Pro tip: If you ever want to use the word “hypocrite” again, come to grips with tRump’s use of foreign H2B workers at his properties.
Do you agree that tRump is being hypocritical in this regard?
And that is legal. If I had my druthers there would be no H2B visas or anything like it, we would be better served as a society by training and hiring citizens IMO. However, as long as it’s legal and drives down the aggregate labor cost for a business in an industry, only a very foolish businessman would fail to take the same legal steps to reduce labor as competitors.
“No one here is protesting legal controlled immigration.
We’re not sure that that is true, but we’re pleased to hear you state it.
In general the tRump administration is lobbying and working to significantly tighten LEGAL
immigration.”
“As I said, it IS legal immigration. He is trying to tighten legal immigration by executive fiat, because Congress sucks donkey.”
Yeah, that’s not what you said. So, is it your opinion that the president is legally using established executive powers to alter immigration policy, or are his actions on immigration illegal? Citations and legal precedence please?