{"id":23118,"date":"2020-06-19T15:29:35","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T19:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=23118"},"modified":"2020-06-19T15:29:37","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T19:29:37","slug":"foreign-workers-poll-battleground-states-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2020\/06\/19\/foreign-workers-poll-battleground-states-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Swing State Voters Reject Koch Demand For Foreign Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A lobbying campaign by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/06\/12\/billionaire-koch-network-critical-to-increase-legal-immigration-while-30m-americans-are-jobless\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Koch network<\/a>, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other open-borders groups to keep up the flow of immigrant workers is running into opposition from voters in several swing states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/465416618\/AFP-Letter-Nonimmigrant-Visas#from_embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">letter<\/a> to White House advisers Jared Kushner and Larry Kudlow, the Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity and Hispanic LIBRE Initiative lobbied to continue visa and permit programs that bring in <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2020\/05\/20\/report-foreign-worker-visas-limits-immigrationreform-com\/\" target=\"_blank\">more than a million foreign workers each year<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under separate cover, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/06\/11\/chamber-of-commerce-crucial-to-import-foreign-workers-while-30m-americans-unemployed\/\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Chamber of Commerce President CEO Tom Donahue<\/a> asserted that it is \u201ccrucial\u201d that businesses be allowed to continue hiring foreign visa workers even as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/us-weekly-jobless-claims-unemployment-insurance-filings-economy-coronavirus-recession-2020-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">46 million Americans filed unemployment claims<\/a> due to coronavirus-related shutdowns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Voters across America have a very different perspective. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fairus.org\/press-releases\/fair-new-zogby-poll-battleground-states-reveals-broad-voter-support-reduced\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">A poll<\/a> conducted in 10 states likely to determine the outcome of the November elections found:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>By 2-to-1 margins, voters support\n\u201creductions in immigration and guest worker admissions\u201d during the COVID\ncrisis.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Strong majorities in all 10 states\nbelieve that \u201climiting admission of new immigrants and guest workers will\nimprove the chances of laid-off American workers being rehired.\u201d<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The Zogby Analytics poll, conducted June 10-11\non behalf of FAIR, sampled likely voters in Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Maine,\nMichigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cJobs and economic security are critical issues in any election,\u201d noted\nFAIR President Dan Stein. \u201cThis poll demonstrates clearly that the American\npublic understands and supports the need to reduce the flow of people entering\nthe country who will compete for jobs during this crisis and once the economy\nfully reopens.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An earlier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2020\/03\/27\/trump-immigration-poll-support-immigrationreform-com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Harvard-Harris poll<\/a>, surveying voters nationally,\u00a0showed 79 percent of respondents favored an immigration halt during the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New research from the liberal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.migrationpolicy.org\/programs\/migration-data-hub\/us-unemployment-trends-during-pandemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Migration Policy Institute<\/a> (MPI) raises still more doubts about the viability of maintaining a large visa labor force at a time of high unemployment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MPI reported that joblessness among immigrant\nworkers is even higher than for U.S.-born workers, and that they are returning\nto work at a slower rate. These metrics make it all the more reasonable to\nthrottle back on foreign labor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Koch-Chamber pleas notwithstanding, President Trump\u2019s actions thus far still allow the processing of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/04\/21\/trump-immigration-green-card-coronavirus-198498\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">hundreds of thousands of work visas<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHowever well intentioned, Trump\u2019s executive order provides little relief to Americans. The pause applies to only a few immigrants who represent a tiny fraction (about 5 percent) of total annual admissions, and will actually restart admissions that have been paused, well before this health crisis is over, and well before the employment crisis is over,\u201d concluded <a href=\"https:\/\/cis.org\/Vaughan\/Trumps-Immigration-Ban-May-Actually-Rev-Immigration-Back\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Jessica Vaughn<\/a>, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To truly address the problem, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fairus.org\/issue\/presidential-administration\/immigration-pause-executive-order-whats-it-and-how-can-it-be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">FAIR<\/a> has called for a new Executive Order to cover substantially all forms of immigration \u2013 especially guest worker programs. This would help jobless Americans get back into the labor force, both now and when the economy finally begins to recover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lobbying campaign by the Koch network, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other open-borders groups to keep up the flow of immigrant workers is running into opposition from voters in several swing states. In a letter to White House advisers Jared Kushner and Larry Kudlow, the Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity and Hispanic LIBRE Initiative<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2020\/06\/19\/foreign-workers-poll-battleground-states-immigrationreform-com\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":15398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[11],"tags":[856,1524,986,127],"yst_prominent_words":[9011,8580,2140,9014,3461,6320,3020,2181,4168,3971,1963,2411,5630,3508,9012,1942,1945,2172,3445,1937],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23119,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23118\/revisions\/23119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23118"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=23118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}