• MEDIA: NY Times: Yeah, OK, Wages Do Rise When Migration Falls

    From John D Groenveld@21:1/5 to All on Mon Nov 27 12:43:58 2023
    Via Breitbart Immigration, Breitbart.COM/immigration, see Neil Munro
    on whether Susie Wiles is concerned that Ron DeSantis could still
    salvage his sinking Never Back Down campaign by inviting the likes
    of Mike Emmons to use Lachlan Murdoch's FoxNews.COM campaign
    bullhorn to stump for an immigration moratorium: <URL:https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2023/11/18/ny-times-yeah-ok-wages-do-rise-when-migration-falls/>
    | Despite Krugman, even Biden's deputies have admitted that migrants
    | divert wealth from ordinary Americans towards CEOs and the stock
    | market. The admission is buried in a pending regulation that is
    | intended to speed more migrants into Americans' workplaces. The
    | draft "Asylum Officer Rule" says:
    |
    || The impact on labor earnings developed above has the potential to
    || include both distributional effects (which are transfers) and
    || indirect benefits to employers ... A portion of this compensation
    || gain [for migrants] might be transferred to asylum applicants from
    || others who are currently in the U.S. labor force ... Companies may
    || also benefit by not incurring opportunity costs associated with the
    || next-best alternative to the immediate labor the asylum applicant
    || would provide, such as having to pay existing workers to work
    || overtime hours. To the extent that overtime pay could be reduced,
    || some portion of this pay could be transferred from the workers to
    || the companies.
    |
    | Vermont's federal legislators have been dragged towards a pro-
    | migration stance by progressives and lobbyists. That shift can be
    | seen in the career of Sen. Peter Welch and Sen. Bernie Saunders, who
    | earlier slammed corporate demands for more migration:
    |
    | <URL:https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1465320967715147776>
    || "Bernie Sanders, in 2015, responded with palpable disgust when
    || @EzraKlein suggested the US had a moral obligation to adopt open
    || borders. Bernie denounced that as a corporatist Koch plot to flood
    || the country with cheap labor & harm American workers by lowering
    || wages. https://t.co/HtQ9q6Wr5e"
    |
    | Outside Vermont, lobbyists have persuaded a growing number of states
    | and cities to import cheap foreign workers for influential
    | businesses who do not want to -- or who cannot -- raise productivity
    | and wages for Americans.

    Will DeSantis warn legacy American proles that Donald Trump will betray
    them with bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform legislation passed
    by the likes of Mike Johnson and Mitch McConnell so long as the Cheap
    Labor Lobby includes the magic words: "merit-based"?
    John
    groenveld@acm.org
    --
    "Bannon on Lindsey Graham: "Why is this dangerous 'anti America
    First' twerp part of President Trump's kick off in South Carolina
    and why is he even included on the team." https://t.co/b3ZSy56Ny5" -
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