There’s An Immigration Influx, Not A Labor Shortage

I am fully supportive of legal immigration only if that means those individuals are contributing members of society. If they arrive here and maintain their status with the welfare system without any will or effort to work, I don’t want it.

But at least they did it the legal way?

However, on the other hand, if legal immigrants are arriving by boatloads (exaggeration, maybe, but I doubt I’m far off), then the native-born American workers will inevitably become the minority in the labor force due to the American demand for higher wages and benefit packages. Large companies typically want cheap workers with minimal needs to save themselves the big bucks, which is understandable from a business standpoint, but inevitably effects the American taxpayer system.

So the big question here is – how do we encourage Americans to have the will to work and thus prove themselves employable?

We often consider the demographics of those who are unemployed, but what about the very causal factors of their unemployment? For instance, what percentage never has intentions to work, how many are currently in the education system and are unable to work (law students, med students, etc), what percentage suffer from mental disabilities, and how many American-born individuals are living on the streets?

Granted, many of these factors will have an overlap and thus it’s damn near impossible to have an accurate distinction.

But is that the factor? Is there unjust assumption of correlation vs. causation?

Additionally, should we encourage outsourcing more instead of importing cheap labor, and what would be the ramifications of that?

I’M SO SPECULATIVE TODAY.

According to Breitbart:

There remain about 11.5 million Americans who are out of work, sitting on the labor market sidelines, all of whom want full-time, high-wage jobs without being forced to compete against a growing number of cheaper, foreign workers.

The latest employment data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics finds there is still slack in the labor market and thus businesses can pull disenfranchised Americans back into work through higher wages, better working conditions, and competitive benefits packages.

Next thing we can evaluate is how the legal immigrant labor force is affecting Americans from obtaining quality work that aligns with their needs and skillsets.

More from Breitbart:

While Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Chad Wolf approved American businesses to import an additional 35,000 H-2B foreign visa workers to take nonagricultural U.S. jobs, there are still about 11.5 million Americans who are unemployed and underemployed.

This includes about 5.8 million Americans who are unemployed — 11 percent of which are unemployed teenagers and 5.8 percent of which are unemployed black Americans. This also includes about 1.1 million long-term unemployed Americans who have been jobless for at least 27 weeks.

There are about 4.3 million Americans who are underemployed, forced to work part-time jobs because they could not find full-time employment. All of these underemployed Americans, though, want full-time jobs.

Last month, White House Chief of Staff reportedly said the U.S. is “desperate … for more people.”

“We are running out of people to fuel the economic growth that we’ve had in our nation over the last four years. We need more immigrants,” Mick Mulvaney apparently said.

The burden this causes on American taxpayers is imperative to note.

Extensive research by economists like George Borjas and analyst Steven Camarota has found that the country’s current legal immigration system — wherein 1.2 million mostly low-skilled workers are admitted annually — burdens U.S. taxpayers and America’s working and middle class while redistributing about $500 billion in wealth every year to major employers and newly arrived immigrants.

The increasing legal immigration levels cuts the native-born American worker’s wages by approximately 8.5 percent due to the affect that the immigrant composition of American workers’ occupations impose, according to Camarota, the director of research for Center for Immigration Studies.