{"id":24734,"date":"2021-07-02T13:12:18","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T17:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=24734"},"modified":"2021-07-02T13:12:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T17:12:19","slug":"biden-raise-wages-hypocrisy-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2021\/07\/02\/biden-raise-wages-hypocrisy-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"President Biden\u2019s Hypocrisy on Wages and Mass Immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

During a June 24 press conference<\/a>, President Joe Biden suggested that the solution to complaints from certain businesses about a supposed labor shortage is simple: paying workers more. The president said: \u201cI remember you were asking me … \u2018Guess what? Employers can\u2019t find workers.\u2019 I said, \u2018Pay them more!\u2019\u201d He added, \u201cthis is an employees\u2019 bargaining chip now. What\u2019s happening? They\u2019re going to have to compete and start playing [sic! \u2013 paying] hard-working people a decent wage.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, the president has a point. FAIR has long been arguing<\/a> \u2013 in response to constant complaints from this or that business lobby about supposed \u201clabor shortages\u201d and \u201clazy Americans\u201d unwilling to do\u201d jobs only immigrants will do\u201d \u2013 that they will find willing American workers if they offer higher wages, rather than importing cheaper foreign labor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Admittedly, some businesses will find it harder to immediately hike wages more than others. Keep in mind that small businesses and certain sectors suffered significant economic damage<\/a> during the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting lockdowns, while billionaires<\/a> and large corporations reaped windfall profits. And, given our rapidly growing national debt, enhanced unemployment benefits \u2013 on which the left is relying as a \u201cbargaining chip\u201d to raise wages \u2013 simply can\u2019t go on forever. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But all those considerations aside, the chief\nexecutive is also missing an even bigger point: that his support for mass\nimmigration and de facto open borders are at odds with his stated commitment to\nraising Americans\u2019 wages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After all, Joe Biden \u2013 along with Kamala Harris \u2013 has unleashed an illegal migration crisis<\/a> of epic proportions at our southwestern border by overturning his predecessor\u2019s policies. And, rather than doing anything substantive to fix the border crisis and stem the rush into the U.S., the Biden-Harris administration has been largely pouring fuel on the fire<\/a>. The result is that hundreds of thousands of new unauthorized migrants have reinforced the already existing illegal alien presence in the U.S. labor market, thereby putting additional downward pressure on wages by competing with low-income working-class Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the legal immigration front, Joe Biden is also not helping middle-class professionals. For example, three months ago Biden allowed Trump\u2019s guestworker pause to expire<\/a>, thereby giving employers that rely heavily on H-1Bs and other foreign workers less incentive to hire Americans or raise their wages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, the mass importation of cheap foreign labor\nputs American employers who want to do the right thing \u2013 by hiring Americans\nand paying them decent wages \u2013 at a competitive disadvantage with unscrupulous\nones who care only about reducing labor costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joe Biden always loved to play the man of the people\nand the defender of the workers, but his immigration policies say otherwise.\nThe president either fails to understand, or simply does not care that wage\nincreases and worker bargaining power require a tight labor market, which is\nundermined by mass immigration, both legal and illegal. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During a June 24 press conference, President Joe Biden suggested that the solution to complaints from certain businesses about a supposed labor shortage is simple: paying workers more. The president said: \u201cI remember you were asking me … \u2018Guess what? Employers can\u2019t find workers.\u2019 I said, \u2018Pay them more!\u2019\u201d He added, \u201cthis is an employees\u2019<\/p>\n

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