{"id":25135,"date":"2021-10-20T14:50:25","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T18:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=25135"},"modified":"2021-10-20T14:50:26","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T18:50:26","slug":"dominos-ceo-wants-more-immigration-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2021\/10\/20\/dominos-ceo-wants-more-immigration-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Domino\u2019s Immigration Combo: More Foreign Labor for Less Dough"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Not satisfied that the U.S. is home to more immigrants than any nation on Earth, the CEO of Domino\u2019s Pizza is hungry for more. \u201cWe need immigration in our industry to continue to have enough team members,\u201d says Ritch Allison<\/a>. But in his endless quest for evermore migrants, whose team is he on? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than 40 million people currently living in the U.S. were born in another country, accounting for about one-fifth of the world\u2019s migrants, according to the Pew Center<\/a>. Since 1965, the number of immigrants to America has more than quadrupled. Nearly one in seven U.S. residents are immigrants, and that ratio continues to climb, with green cards granted to more than 1.2 million legal immigrants annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Allison pleads for more foreign workers, millions of native-born Americans and<\/em> immigrants aren\u2019t working at all. Recent reports<\/a> listed 7.3 million Americans and 1.5 million immigrants as unemployed. An additional 9.4 million immigrants ages 16-64 were classified as neither working nor looking for work. (None of these statistics includes illegal aliens, estimated by FAIR to number 14.5 million.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fact is:\nThere is not a labor shortage. Instead, there is a shortage of honorable CEOs\nwilling to pay market wages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though\nmany immigrants come here to work, they typically do so for lower pay. This\nwage suppression works nicely for bottom-line executives like Allison. Since\n1970, the percentage of immigrants in the U.S. workforce has more than tripled\nto 30 million. Not coincidentally, the rising tide of foreign workers has come\nwith a decades-long stagnation of American wages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(It\u2019s worth noting here that a Domino\u2019s franchise was ordered to pay $3 million to 3,000 of its delivery drivers over claims of unpaid wages<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Businesses that rely on low-paid immigrants inevitably shift their workers\u2019 social welfare costs onto taxpayers. The Center for Immigration Studies notes, for example, that immigrants would take an outsized share of cash payments under a vastly expanded Child Tax Credit<\/a> program. (That program, by the way, abolishes all work requirements.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.S.\nimmigration system, heavily reliant on diversity lotteries and family-based\nchain migration, is not designed to deliver the skilled and educated workforce\nthat American businesses need to succeed. CEOs like Allison would be better\nserved by focusing on quality, not quantity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If they\u2019re truly team players for America, they could make a difference by placing an order for the RAISE Act<\/a>, a merit-based admissions policy that selects applicants who can best contribute to the U.S. economy. But sadly, Allison seems to be hoping the federal government will adopt Dominos\u2019 tagline: \u201cWe\u2019ll have your immigrant worker there in 30 minutes or less, or the next one is on us!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not satisfied that the U.S. is home to more immigrants than any nation on Earth, the CEO of Domino\u2019s Pizza is hungry for more. \u201cWe need immigration in our industry to continue to have enough team members,\u201d says Ritch Allison. But in his endless quest for evermore migrants, whose team is he on? More than<\/p>\n

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