{"id":1551572,"date":"2022-07-13T06:50:19","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T10:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1551572"},"modified":"2022-07-13T06:50:24","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T10:50:24","slug":"biden-touts-allowing-record-number-of-foreign-workers-from-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-touts-allowing-record-number-of-foreign-workers-from-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Touts Allowing Record Number of Foreign Workers From Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-touts-allowing-record-number-of-foreign-workers-from-mexico%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1551572&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Joe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-biden\">Biden<\/a> on Tuesday touted the \u201crecord\u201d number of foreign workers his\u00a0administration has allowed into the\u00a0United States from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-mexico\">Mexico<\/a>, stating that the move has boosted job opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Biden made the comments during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2022\/07\/12\/remarks-by-president-biden-and-president-lopez-obrador-of-mexico-before-bilateral-meeting-2\/\">press conference<\/a> with Mexican President\u00a0Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador at the White House at a time when an\u00a0unprecedented number of illegal aliens continue to try to make their way into the country.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, inflation stands at a 40-year-high in the United States and the number of employed Americans has declined.<\/p>\n<p>The current unemployment rate stands at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/pdf\/empsit.pdf\">3.6 percent<\/a>,\u00a0according to\u00a0the Labor Department, marking\u00a0the lowest since February 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy administration is leading the way to creating work opportunities through legal pathways,\u201d Biden said on Tuesday. \u201cAnd last year, my administration set a record. We issued more than 300,000 H-2 visas for Mexican workers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also reached a five-year high in the visas we issued to Central Americans, and we\u2019re on pace to double this in fiscal year for\u2014this fiscal year for Central America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to an <a href=\"https:\/\/cis.org\/Report\/Employment-Situation-Immigrants-and-Natives-January-2021\">analysis<\/a> by the Center for Immigration Studies\u00a0of Bureau of Labor Statistics data for January 2021, unemployment among\u00a0native-born Americans remained much higher than before the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The number of unemployed American natives in January 2021 stood at 8.6 million, according to the analysis, while the\u00a0number of unemployed\u00a0immigrants was\u00a02.2 million.<\/p>\n<p>Separate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.migrationpolicy.org\/programs\/migration-data-hub\/us-unemployment-trends-during-pandemic\">data<\/a> from the\u00a0nonpartisan independent think tank, The Migration Policy Institute, finds that the unemployment rate was equal at 3.3 percent for both U.S.-born workers and immigrant workers as of April 2022.<\/p>\n<p> More Jobs, Wages Rising <\/p>\n<p>Another\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fairus.org\/issue\/workforce-economy\/mass-immigration-wont-stimulate-post-covid-recovery-debunking-america-last\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">study<\/a>\u00a0by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) which looked at job figures from September 2020 to March 2022 noted that there are currently\u00a0approximately 11.5 million job openings in the United States\u00a0and 14.73 million employable Americans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis means that there are 3.23 million more workers in the country than<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden on Tuesday touted the \u201crecord\u201d number of foreign workers his\u00a0administration has allowed into the\u00a0United States from Mexico, stating that the move has boosted job opportunities. 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