{"id":1705418,"date":"2022-10-21T09:14:23","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T13:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1705418"},"modified":"2022-10-21T09:19:02","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T13:19:02","slug":"big-business-pushes-for-lame-duck-amnesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/big-business-pushes-for-lame-duck-amnesty\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Business Pushes for Lame-Duck Amnesty"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/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%2Fbig-business-pushes-for-lame-duck-amnesty%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=1705418&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/AP_17173054500924.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Business groups and their progressive allies are pushing Congress to accelerate more corporate migration during the lame-duck session after the election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">The business push for cheap labor is hidden behind plaintive, media-magnified calls for the amnesty of \u201cDreamers.\u201d That term is used by advocates and the media to glamorize roughly three million younger illegal migrants who are staying in the United States by their calculating foreign parents.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>President Joe Biden \u201cneeds to use his bully pulpit but also his political capital to make sure that he\u2019s delivering for immigrant youth who have been here since they were children,\u201d said Marielena Hincapie, who heads the National Immigration Law Center. \u201cThere is no other time \u2014 Let\u2019s not wait until the Supreme Court rules,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/10\/20\/immigrant-advocates-abandoned-biden-00062641\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> Politico.com on October 20.<\/p>\n<p>But the lobbying push is powered by business groups that have many higher priorities than a \u201cDreamer\u201d amnesty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">Those higher priorities include an amendment in the House\u2019s must-pass defense authorization bill that would allow companies to dramatically escalate their extraction of white-collar workers from poor foreign countries.\u00a0If approved, the new migrants will help shrink salaries paid to millions of indebted, family-raising American graduates.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>That amendment is matched by a Senate amendment that could be added to any moving bill, which is backed by Democrat Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Il), and Republican\u00a0Mike Rounds (R-SD)<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg.com <a href=\"https:\/\/about.bgov.com\/news\/immigration-fights-face-make-or-break-moment-before-end-of-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> on October 11:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Senators have introduced a slew of NDAA amendments on other immigration issues. Most will be passed over, but some may make it into a bipartisan managers\u2019 package, and a few may get a vote on the Senate floor. Advocates will try to include many of those same proposals, plus others, in an omnibus spending bill, though prospects remain uncertain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Efforts include proposals to offer a path to citizenship to noncitizen service members and veterans, recapture unused family and employment-based visas from years past, and restore diversity visas lost to bureaucratic delays and Trump-era travel restrictions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Overall, business groups prefer to keep reporters focused on young migrants instead of the replacement workers. For example, an advocacy group of West Coast investors \u2014 FWD.us \u2014 touted a full-page pro-amnesty advertisement in the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEW TODAY\u2014with full page ad in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WSJ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WSJ<\/a> &#038; in wake of 5th Circuit ruling DACA unlawful, over 80 of the largest companies, trade assns &#038; business leaders call on Congress to act to pass bipartisan permanent protections for DACA in lame duck.<\/p>\n<p>Story from NBC \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vUXDVqBZOR\">https:\/\/t.co\/vUXDVqBZOR<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YkpfBbsbtX\">pic.twitter.com\/YkpfBbsbtX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Todd Schulte (@TheToddSchulte) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheToddSchulte\/status\/1583059810115006464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 20, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">The FWD.us investor group backs migration because it boosts their businesses with more wage-cutting\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">workers<\/a>, more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/01\/20\/companies-say-public-charge-reform-will-cut-their-revenues-from-poor-migrants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">consumers<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2022\/09\/16\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-says-migrants-are-a-blessing-amid-rising-rents-in-new-york-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more renters<\/a>. The founders include\u00a0Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt, and Mark and Priscilla Zuckerberg. It was\u00a0created in 2013 to help pass the 2013 \u201cGang of Eight\u201d cheap labor and amnesty bill.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fwd.us\/staff-board\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">staff<\/a>\u00a0of the FWD.us group tries\u00a0to\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fwd.us\/founders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">hide<\/a>\u00a0the identity of the wealthy investors who\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20181024004654\/https:\/\/www.fwd.us\/founders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">founded and funded<\/a>\u00a0the group. But\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/G5rNg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">copies exist<\/a>\u00a0at\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20181024004654\/https:\/\/www.fwd.us\/founders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">other sites<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>FWD.us has long fueled the DACA debate to minimize <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2020\/07\/16\/microsoft-tech-investors-promote-dreamers-to-preserve-supply-of-visa-workers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media coverage<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/11\/13\/solicitor-general-tells-scotus-federal-law-does-not-allow-daca-work-permits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">public recognition<\/a> of Fortune 500 migration.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> ad was sponsored by a spinoff of FWD.us, the Coalition for the American Dream. It <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coalitionfortheamericandream.us\/daca-fifth-circuit-response\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">declared<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p8\">The worker shortage will get worse for the United States if hundreds of thousands of critical workers [the \u2018DACA\u201d recipients of illegally-awarded work permits) are stripped of their legal ability to support themselves and their families. That is the situation we currently face if this ruling becomes final, and it is the reason for our request today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p10\">Given that DACA applications and renewals were granted on a rolling basis, the end to this program means that an estimated 22,000 jobs would be lost every month for two years. That is roughly 1,000 job losses per business day at a time when the U.S. economy already faces significant workforce shortages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">When the last DACA recipient\u2019s work permit expires, the U.S. will have lost more than 500,000 jobs, and the U.S. economy will lose as much as $11.7 billion annually \u2013 or roughly $1 billion monthly \u2013 in wages from previously employed DACA recipients. (To put this into perspective, in Texas alone, 400 healthcare workers and 300 teachers will be forced out of their jobs each month.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt is, first and foremost, a humanitarian issue, but the broken system is also harming manufacturers\u2019 competitiveness,\u201d said Jay Timmons, CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">\u201cOur communities, businesses, and economy have all benefitted from the contributions of these young men and women,\u201d claimed Matthew Shay, CEO of the National Retail Federation. \u201cIt is time to provide them with a pathway to lawful permanent residence and ultimately American citizenship.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The business groups also paid for similar ads in the\u00a0<em>Dallas Morning News<\/em> and the <em>Charlotte Observer<\/em> to pressure Sen. John Coryn (R-Tx) and Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC).<\/p>\n<p>Of course, any reduction in the number of illegal foreign workers is a boon to more than 100 million Americans who have lost wages and affordable housing because the establishment has pumped millions of cheap, submissive, and hard-working migrants into Americans\u2019 workplaces.<\/p>\n<p>Since January 2021, Biden has allowed roughly four million illegal migrants, visa workers, and legal immigrants into the United States, alongside many foreigners who take jobs after getting tourist visas. That mass inflow damaged Americans\u2019 salaries by flooding the labor market and helped to spike inflation and housing prices.<\/p>\n<p>The migrants are extracted from poor countries with the goal of diverting a larger share of the nation\u2019s income toward investors and Wall Street.<\/p>\n<p>The damage is exemplified by Julia Mallman, a single, childless, 42-year-old kindergarten teacher in Fairfax, Va. Her monthly rents jumped by 25 percent as Joe Biden\u2019s migrants rented spaces in her apartment complex, she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/money\/realestate\/va-teacher-gets-a-shock-in-the-mail-a-24350-rent-hike-she-can-e2-80-99t-absorb\/ar-AA13cn9i\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> the October 20\u00a0<em>Washington Post<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cSo many emotions when I saw that,\u201d Mallman said. \u201cI was furious. And disappointed. And demoralized.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-body\">\n<p class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">She got a post-pandemic gut punch that is hitting renters across the nation this year. After landlords largely suspended rent hikes and federal assistance came during shutdowns, renters are now paying a steep price for that brief clemency. Nationwide, rents are up 11.3 percent this year, according to the real-estate-research firm\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/interactive\/2022\/rising-rent-prices\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CoStar Group<\/a>. In some parts, like in Mallman\u2019s working-class complex, the penalty \u2026 is weighing in at 25 percent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cWho can afford this?\u201d she asked, showing me the contract she decided to sign after all, on the day it was due. \u201cThe prices are pretty much the same everywhere I look.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The federal government\u2019s Extraction Migration economy strategy is hidden from the public behind a screen of ineffective border defenses, pro-migration media coverage, official lies, and complex laws.<\/p>\n<p>Even a <em>New York Times<\/em> writer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/10\/20\/opinion\/el-paso-migrant-buses-republicans.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recognized<\/a> the scam in an October 20 op-ed:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The border, I think, is imperfect by design: Porous enough to ensure that some people will inevitably manage to get through, delivering a steady supply of cheap and under-the-table labor. Closed enough to prevent a glut of newcomers. Lenient at times because we are a land of immigrants, but punctuated with attention-grabbing crackdowns to dissuade too many people from trying their luck.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The GOP legislators in the House and Senate recognize their voters\u2019 deep opposition to the wealth-shifting migration. So they are zig-zagging away from their donors\u2019 demands before the election. NBC News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/amp\/rcna52123\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> on October 20:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A Republican aide said the \u201cbusiness community always underestimates how hard it is to get legislation through on this topic and tends to misread the political environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Even Democrats doubt Republicans will OK the amnesty, NBC reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cFrom what I\u2019m seeing and hearing, Republicans are not budging on this,\u201d the Democratic aide said. \u201cI\u2019m glad these companies are doing this now, but they\u2019re only as effective as their outreach.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But the progressive groups keep pushing, amid much damage to Americans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s clear that the ball is in President Biden\u2019s hands,\u201d Greisa Mart\u00ednez Rosas, the director of the donor-backed United We Dream group, told Politico.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe needs to say that it\u2019s his number one priority \u2026 He needs to say that clearly, publicly and many times. I think that he can use his bipartisan experience to bring Republicans to the negotiating table,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/10\/20\/immigrant-advocates-abandoned-biden-00062641\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> Politico.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business groups and their progressive allies are pushing Congress to accelerate more corporate migration during the lame-duck session after the election. 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