December Data: Nearly 100,000 Border Crossers Allowed Into U.S., Not Counting 'Got-Aways'

Numerous groups — including JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs — have credited Trump’s reduced labor supply for boosting Americans’ wages and productivity.The Dallas Morning News described the current pressure for wage increases on January 20:Demand is so intense in the North Texas construction industry that wages rose 10% over the last year for high-demand framers, bricklayers, carpenters, electricians and plumbers, said Phil Crone, executive officer at the Dallas Builders Association.The liberal newspaper, of course, ignored the wage-cutting impact of Biden’s inflation as it touted business demand for even more cheap workers:“If we can’t get the help from within, we need to find it from outside our borders and that means we need meaningful immigration reform… a program tailored to our construction needs,” Crone said … Crone wants a new visa program tailored to the construction industry. It cuts their career opportunities and their wages while it raises their housing costs.The strategy also curbs Americans’ productivity, shrinks their political clout, and widens the regional wealth gaps between the Democrats’ coastal states and cities and the Republicans’ heartland states and GOP-run suburbs and towns.The economic policy radicalizes Americans’ democratic, compromise-promoting civic culture and allows wealthy elites to ignore despairing Americans at the bottom of society.Unsurprisingly, a wide variety of little-publicized polls show deep and broad opposition to labor migration and the inflow of temporary contract workers into jobs sought by young U.S. graduates.The opposition is growing, anti-establishment, multiracial, cross-sex, non-racist, class-based, bipartisan, rational, persistent, and recognizes the solidarity that Americans owe to each other.EconomyImmigrationPoliticsAlejandro Mayorkasasylumeconomic migrantsExtraction Migration.Please let us know if you're having issues with commenting.