\u201cThe\n[Department of Homeland Security] decision to issue 20,000 more visas with\n6,500 specifically allocated for workers from Northern Triangle countries and\nHaiti is a good start, but not nearly enough.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
— Wall Street Journal<\/a>, Feb. 8, 2022<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Amid its\ncheerleading for the latest boost in low-skilled H-2B visas, the WSJ editorial\ndodged the obvious question: \u201cHow many will be \u2018enough\u2019?\u201d For the Bible of Business, it\u2019s simply \u201cmore.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Robert Law<\/a>, at the Center for Immigration Studies, counters, \u201cThere are no jobs Americans won\u2019t do. There are only wages and working conditions they are not willing to accept for the work. Nor should they. By refusing to offer higher wages or conditions to entice Americans to work for them, employers create a mirage of a labor \u2018shortage.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n It is no coincidence that average U.S. wages have flat-lined<\/a> over the past\u00a0four decades<\/a>, when adjusted for inflation. While factors such as automation and globalization play a significant role in this phenomenon, this period of stagnation also coincides with the historic surge of immigration into this country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The WSJ\u2019s\neditorialists parrot the same wage-depressing dogma as the mass immigration\nbooster-squads on the editorial boards of The New York Times and Washington\nPost. The only difference is that the Journal, in recent years, has come to object\nto illegal<\/em> immigration. But the\nline between \u201clegal\u201d and \u201cillegal\u201d blurs when the executive branch routinely\nusurps Congress\u2019 immigration authority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEmployers\nwant to flood the market with labor supply to drive down wages and companies\nthat rely on cheaper, foreign workers have a flawed business model,\u201d Law\nasserts. \u201cThis is hardly a free market economy but it seems like the WSJ is\nwilling to look the other way on government handouts as long as executives can\nmaximize their profits.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n