Monday, June 23, 2025

Not only No, but Hell, No.

Elitists doing what elitists do: "With border now secure, US needs to boost legal immigration to strengthen economy, workforce, study finds" reports the New York Post. A group calling itself "Unleash Prosperity" must be concerned that the increased deportations of illegals, and others not showing up to work for fear of ICE raids, are behind a recent but rather negligible increase in wages for blue collar workers, because the group has released a "study" that "recommends increasing the overall quota for annual immigration entries and expanding visas for high-tech foreign workers via the H-1B visa program" and "calls for expanding visas that allow companies to hire foreigners for seasonal work."

“Due to profound demographic changes in the United States, expanding visas for programs ranging from high-tech H-1B workers, to seasonal H-2B workers, to EB-5 investor immigrants, combined with an increase in the overall quota for annual immigrant entries will benefit the U.S. economy,” the study insisted. 

But benefit the economy for whom?  The average American worker or the ones incapable of mowing their lawns and cleaning their bathrooms without cheap, foreign labor? And why, when tech companies are laying off thousands of American tech workers, would we need to import more H-1B workers?  It's simple supply and demand at work, the purpose being to keep wages depressed by increasing the supply of labor. And, should you read the article, note that the most of the reasons they use for justifying the increase in immigrants are the direct result of increased immigration in past decades (including higher living costs and stagnant wages keeping couples from having children). 

    As a counterpoint, I would point out that the tightening of the labor supply that accompanied the Black Plague in the 14th Century not only saw the largest relative increase in freedom and wealth for lower classes that has probably been seen in the last two millennia, but ushered in the flowering of art and science that we call the Renaissance. 

2 comments:

  1. Deport all the H1B workers, and replace them with AI.

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  2. Deport them all. Send the illegals in as boots on the ground in Iran, and then watch how fast they self-deport.

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