From "ICE raids disrupt Utah restaurants, fuel fear," I came across this bit (bold added):
Some restaurant owners say their employees have not shown up to work, later finding out they were detained by immigration authorities at home or during traffic stops, Michele Corigliano, executive director of the Salt Lake Area Restaurant Association, which represents independently owned restaurants, told Axios.
Corigliano said restaurants rely on immigrant workers to fill tough-to-hire jobs previously occupied by high schoolers and college students.
More: "This visa program imports foreign students for summer jobs — crowding out US teens"--New York Post. The article reports:
Every summer, tens of thousands of international college students come to the United States under the State Department’s J-1 Summer Work Travel visa.
In theory, this is a cultural exchange arrangement fostering mutual understanding between Americans and foreigners.
In practice, it’s a backdoor work program that quietly supplies businesses with short-term seasonal labor — while undermining what was once a cherished American tradition: the summer job.
Last year, close to 140,000 students from over 200 countries came to the US on J-1 visas to fill lifeguard chairs, take tickets at water parks, serve burgers at fast-food counters and mind children at summer camps — young, temporary employees who show up on time and disappear by fall.
This. We need to send them all home, and keep them out.
ReplyDeleteI just came across an article about Gen Z applying for jobs and not having anything to put down on resumes. The article blamed Covid, but the fact that these low level high school jobs have increasingly gone to aliens must also be having an impact.
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