Dear US workforce: New batch of ‘white men north of Richmond’ is set to take power next week. In this statement, ‘white men’ = people with high income, wealth and influence.
Trump to Begin Large-Scale Deportations Tuesday – msn/WSJ
“The Chicago Police Department referred any questions about pending immigration enforcement actions to the federal government. CPD, in a statement, cited Chicago’s Welcoming City Ordinance, under which the department ‘does not document immigration status’—or share information with federal immigration authorities. ‘We will not intervene or interfere with any other government agencies performing their duties,’ it added.”
After the federal agents sent to Chicago file their expense accounts, will US immigration policy be much different? A pivotal factor remains whether the government is willing to begin deterring employers from hiring illegals with significant fines and jail time. Here’s the first piece posted on this website:
Playing Immigration Piñata – Karl Polzer/CCSE
“The core issue is that America wants to eat its cake and have it too. America wants the benefits of cheap labor from illegals without the cost, inconvenience and back talk that often comes with the native workforce. Cheap labor from today’s illegals tends to depress wages, increase profits, and lower prices for consumers…”
Could High-Skill Immigration Increase Under Trump? – Michael Strain/AEI
“A rift has opened in Donald Trump’s political coalition over high-skill immigration. The president-elect responded by expressing his support for such foreign workers, which suggests that he is less nativist than many of his MAGA supporters.”
What Ted Lasso Can Teach Us About Panda Express – Oren Cass/Understanding America
Where Are the Secure Jobs? – American Conservative
“The American labor market’s failure to produce family-supporting jobs is fundamental to the nation’s problems.”
“The flow of unskilled and easily exploited workers into the labor market, meanwhile, must end. Immigration can bring many benefits to an economy, but when it supplies labor to fill insecure jobs it creates the wrong incentives for employers and undercuts workers already here. Congress should end low-wage guest-worker programs, focus permanent immigration on workers in high-wage segments of the market, and impose draconian penalties on employers who violate the law and hire illegally.”