• MEDIA: Mass. lawmakers: Immigrants can plug gaping labor force holes

    From John D Groenveld@21:1/5 to All on Fri Sep 29 11:42:09 2023
    Colin Young for the Daily Hampshire Gazette on whether Susie Wiles
    has notice in her or Bill Stepien or Brad Parscale's focus groups
    of potential Donald Trump voters among legacy American proles that
    they understand per-capita GDP: <URL:https://www.gazettenet.com/Immigrants-can-plug-gaping-labor-force-voids-52384241>
    | The H-1B employer-sponsored immigration system, which authorizes
    | temporary work in cases when employers cannot otherwise obtain
    | needed business skills or abilities from the U.S. workforce, is
    | subject to an annual limit of 65,000 visas (plus 20,000 more for
    | foreign professionals who graduate from U.S. institutions with
    | advanced degrees) established in 1990. Since then, the size of the
    | U.S. economy has more than quadrupled from roughly $6 trillion to
    | more than $25 trillion according to World Bank Open Data, and the
    | Cato Institute said there were 1,438,758 employment-based skilled-
    | worker immigration applications stuck in processing backlogs as of
    | September 2021.

    Does Wiles worry that Ron DeSantis could still resuscitate Miriam
    Adelson, Robert Bigelow, Walter Buckley, Betsy DeVos, Ken Griffin,
    Julia Koch, Bernie Marcus, Lachlan Murdoch, Thomas Peterffy, Bruce
    Rauner, Chris Reyes, David Sacks and Steve Wynn's Never Back Down
    campaign by inviting the likes of Mike Emmons onto their campaign
    stage to stump for an immigration moratorium?
    John
    groenveld@acm.org
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