Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) says Americans and their children will lose out to China unless aided by immigrants.
“If you look at our ability to struggle to keep up with China’s rise, there’s no way — unless you continue to bring the brightest, best, hardest-working people from around the world to America,” Murphy said in an article. . August 1st talk staged Established by the Influence Group, the Bipartisan Policy Center.
“Tonight we found common ground,” respond Murphy’s stage partner, Republican Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH), who is retiring this year:
I think Republicans as a rule, of course, I am, [are] Very interested in expanding legal immigration.And, in fact, when we often try to do so, we find ourselves unable to [to do so]. For example, H-1B visa or high tech visa [were initially added to] This latest legislation we’ve passed…that’s going to help nail the green card to the Ph.D. For those in STEM disciplines.I think it’s all good – but we have to deal with this illegal, current [border chaos] A system that serves no one but the traffickers.
The two senators’ support for foreign graduates over American graduates is highly unpopular. The policy is counterproductive to innovation, tilts the economy toward consumption, and is a politically untouchable “Track 3” because it favors investors, CEOs, and other elite members.
“I think the populist backlash against elites is that many working people feel that elites look down on them and that the work they do is undervalued, not only in terms of financial rewards… [but in] Social Recognition,” Michael Sandel, distinguished progressive professor at Harvard University, said at an elite event in Aspen, Colorado.
“Our politics, the neoliberal version of global capitalism that we insist on, the inequality it creates, and the consequent lack of social respect for working people — all of this is for [President Donald] Trump,” Sandel said at the event, which was titled “Reimagining the Future of the Democratic Party.”
Elite firings of ordinary Americans “add to the harm of unemployment, wage stagnation and inequality,” Sandel lamented, adding:
If politicians tell people—” [only] The solution to the problem is to improve yourself, and as long as you work hard, you can do it. ” — inspirational on the one hand and insulting on the other. Because for those who don’t have a college degree and are struggling in this economy, it means “your failure is your fault”.
I think we — I mean, broadly speaking, the Democrats, the ruling elite, Democrats and Republicans, mainstream politics since Reagan, but through Clinton and Obama — have sung these slogans, these messages, this speech [economic] “Rise” and miss their implied insult. And that indignity, grievance, anger and resentment came together and exploded in 2016.
Sandel is talking to Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO), who admits his party’s “technocratic” economic policies aren’t helping ordinary Americans:
what am i[‘ve] The bottom line is that for the past 14 years, in my town hall, in a state with one of the most dynamic economies of any state in the country, people are killing themselves — that’s the word they use — They’re killing themselves and whatever they do, they can’t afford the combination of housing, health care, higher education or early childhood education. They cannot be saved.
Bennet, a former investor and original member of the Gang of Eight amnesty and cheap labor act of 2013, added:
One of the challenges we face as a country is that we have given up investing in our own economy. We stopped investing in our employees. We stopped investing in our plants and equipment here. We no longer make these investments. We pay dividends to shareholders, we buy back stock, we do financial design – but we don’t do the stuff that actually creates the environment… People – working next to automated robots, it must be said these days – have the opportunity to have the dignity of work. This is something we can change.
Bennet outlined his solution to a fractured economy — but echoed Murphy’s demands for foreign workers to get the jobs, wages and housing voters need:
We need to figure out how we can create an economy that when it grows, it grows for everyone. Fixing a broken immigration system, dealing with the opioid and fentanyl epidemic, and methamphetamine in the United States of America…we’re going to have to figure out how to reform the way our political system works so it can actually deal with what the American people need.
Murphy also outlined his preferred political deal, saying Republicans should “sit down and discuss comprehensive immigration reform — not just building a wall — but finding ways to get more people here legally.”
“Maybe we’ve opened the door to this” populist rejection, Sandel said, without mentioning his elite counterpart’s top priority economic policy, mining immigration.
Extract migration
Since at least 1990, DC agencies have extracted tens of millions of legal and illegal immigrants — and temporary visa workers — from poor countries as workers, managers, consumers, and tenants of various U.S. investors, and CEO.
This federal economic policy of extracting immigrants distorts the U.S. free market by inflating the labor supply for the benefit of employers. Inflationary policies make it difficult for the average American to marry, develop a career, support a family or buy a home.
Extractive immigration also slows innovation and reduces American productivity, in part because it allows employers to boost stock prices by using cheap stooped labor rather than productivity-enhancing technology.
Immigration hurts workers’ workplace rights and widens the regional wealth gap between the Democratic coastal states and the Republican heartland and southern states. The influx of cheap labor has shifted the economy toward low-productivity jobs and has driven at least 10 million American men out of the workforce.
An economy built on the extraction of immigrants also eroded Americans’ political influence over elites, alienated young people, and intensified America’s culture of democratic citizenship because it allowed wealthy elites to ignore desperate Americans are bottom society.
The economic policy was supported by progressives who wanted to transform America from a society ruled by a civic culture of European origin to a progressive empire of competing, resentful identity groups. “We’re trying to be the world’s first multi-racial, multi-ethnic superpower,” Rep. Rohit Khanna (D-CA) Tell This New York Times March 2022. “It’s going to be a phenomenal achievement … we’ll win in the end,” he boasted.
Business-backed immigration advocates hide this extraction-immigrant economic policy in various high-sounding explain and theatrical border security program. For example, progressives claim that the United States is a “nation of immigrants”, that immigration is good for immigrants, and that the country must renew itself by changing its population.
Polls show public wanting to welcome some immigrants, but also reveal deep and broad public opposition to labour migration and temporary contract inflows staff member Enter the jobs young graduates in the US seek.
Opposition is growing, anti-establishment, multiracial, transgender, non-racist, class based, bipartisan, reasonablepersevering, and acknowledging that American citizens should be united with one another.
