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Skirting Congress once again, President Obama seeks to admit another 100,000 foreigners to work here when jobs are few and labor-market participation is low. Whatever this is, it’s not in the interest of U.S. workers.
This time, the president isn’t seeking to flood the country with tens of thousands of indigent, border-surging migrants in search of bigger benefits packages.
Instead, he plans to award via executive order work permits to 100,000 foreign college grads (including deportable aliens) to compete with U.S. workers for jobs.
Cui bono? Certainly not the U.S. workers he purports to champion.
Obama’s Homeland Security rule, published in the Federal Register on Thursday, amounts to yet another illegal power grab by explicitly treading on Congress’ constitutional prerogative to set immigration quotas.
It also comes at a time when 94 million U.S. workers have been unemployed so long they’re no longer counted in labor-participation statistics. Some New Year’s Day present for millions of discouraged Americans.
The move is especially nefarious not just because it stands as another example of executive overreach but also because foreign workers already have U.S. workers at a disadvantage.
For one thing, they’re able to work cheaper. Unlike Americans, most have had free tuition rides from their sponsoring countries and carry no student loan debt. This enables them to tolerate lower wages than American grads saddled with high loan costs that can’t be shirked even in bankruptcy court.
The foreigners are also exempt from ObamaCare rules that can add as much as $20,000 in costs per domestic worker for employers struggling to compete in the low-growth economy that Obama has overseen.
In short, Obama’s move to bring in highly educated foreign labor hurts U.S. white-collar workers as much as the border surge undermined blue-collar workers.
Which raises the question of what the president really has in mind.
It may simply be a failure of strategy, the lack of a capacity to think three steps ahead.
But more likely, it’s the result of a European Union-style effort to change the face of America — rendering its cultural norms null amid the left’s moral relativism through the import of chaotic newcomers from around the world.
Indeed, Sweden, once known as perhaps the most generous recipient of foreign migrants, has recently found the cost too high. It’s rolling up the welcome mat, discouraging further migration and cutting back welfare.
Obama still seems to cling to the EU’s illusion and the plan to dilute American culture. It won’t work the way he thinks it will. Outsourcing American jobs, even inside the country, is no more attractive than outsourcing them abroad.
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Lets be crystal clear.
Obummer has nothing to give any of these foreigners….
Government earns nothing, never has, never will.
Government TAKES FROM WE THE PEOPLE.
ANYTHING, and EVERYTHING he gives…
BELONGS TO US….. WE PAY, he vacations, on OUR money.
He promises away OUR money & jobs, and HE Benefits. Bullshit.
He pledges away OUR MONEY, OUR RESOURCES, and OUR JOBS.
AND WE PAY THE PRICE.
Its time to stop the madness.
They just keep pouring gasoline on the fire. Well the fire is starting to burn out of control.
Like I said…Obama is going to do as much damage and create as much division among people as he can on his way out.
Actually his oy vey teleprompter handlers.
Next administration will be even worse.
“Instead, he plans to award via executive order work permits to 100,000 foreign college grads (including deportable aliens) to compete with U.S. workers for jobs.”
Compete with? Hardly.
They’ll be given precedence.
“Obama still seems to cling to the EU’s illusion and the plan to dilute American culture. It won’t work the way he thinks it will.”
Oh, but it will.
Designed that way.