• MEDIA: For Immigration Hawks Trump and Musk, H-1Bs Are an Exception

    From John D Groenveld@21:1/5 to All on Tue Mar 4 09:47:54 2025
    Michael Bloomberg's guest blogger, Andrew Kreighbaum on what will be
    the foreign born population in Howard Lutnick's Census.GOV headcounts
    and share of the American labor market in Lori Chavez-DeRemer's
    BLS.GOV surveys at the end of Donald Trump's second term: <URL:https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/for-immigration-hawks-trump-and-musk-h-1bs-are-an-exception>
    | But the sway of Musk and Silicon Valley leaders who backed Trump's
    | election lends a powerful counterweight to figures like Stephen
    | Miller, who would use any tool available to curb hiring of foreign
    | workers.
    |
    | Miller, as a White House official in the previous Trump
    | administration, orchestrated a regime of new hurdles for both
    | unauthorized and legal immigration. Now as deputy chief of staff, he
    | could face bigger pushback from business leaders within Trump's
    | orbit--at least when it comes to work-based visa programs.

    Will American STEM workers reward Peter Thiel's VP JD Vance with
    Trump's third term if Trump chooses the Cheap Labor Lobby over
    legacy American proles?

    John
    groenveld@acm.org
    --
    "That "missing link" between man and ape, that transitional period
    between civilization and favela, is more complicated than mere
    demography. In a nation with democratic elections, the people who
    stand to lose the most must, at least to some degree, be persuaded
    to willingly surrender their advantage. Like any good
    anthropologist, it's that "transitional fossil" that fascinates me."
    - David Cole <URL:https://www.takimag.com/article/locked-down-in-third-world-california/>

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