{"id":924305,"date":"2021-10-26T11:44:22","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T15:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=924305"},"modified":"2021-10-26T11:44:24","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T15:44:24","slug":"republican-blasts-bernie-sanders-build-back-better-immigration-proposals-will-harm-american-workers-take-away-opportunity-from-american-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-blasts-bernie-sanders-build-back-better-immigration-proposals-will-harm-american-workers-take-away-opportunity-from-american-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Blasts Bernie Sanders: \u2018Build Back Better\u2019 Immigration Proposals Will \u2018Harm American Workers, Take Away Opportunity From\u2019 American Kids"},"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\">38<\/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%2Frepublican-blasts-bernie-sanders-build-back-better-immigration-proposals-will-harm-american-workers-take-away-opportunity-from-american-kids%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=924305&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>A Republican colleague has asked U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) why he supports little-known immigration provisions of the \u201cBuild Back Better\u201d plan that would allow foreign workers to take American jobs and lower the wages of the middle class. Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) said he was puzzled that the Vermont-based democratic socialist would support \u201cthe crown jewel of corporate lobbying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The proposal would allow Silicon Valley tech firms \u201cto employ a functionally limitless supply of cheaper foreign labor in place of willing, able, and qualified American workers,\u201d Hagerty wrote in an October 22 \u201cDear Colleague\u201d letter to Sanders, obtained by this reporter and later posted to social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese Big Tech companies can hire as many foreign workers as they want. They don\u2019t have to worry about discriminating against American workers; they can do it all day long,\u201d Senator Hagerty told Laura Ingraham on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe big issue here is we\u2019re going to harm American workers, and we\u2019re going to take away the opportunity from our kids,\u201d he continued. \u201cThe last thing we want is for those jobs to be given to foreign workers. \u2026 This will knock out opportunity for a generation to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sanders and Democrats favor <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BigTech?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BigTech<\/a> &amp; corporate lobbyists over American workers and their wages.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t believe me? Look at the radical provisions hidden in their tax-and-spend spree that I\u2019ve written <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenSanders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SenSanders<\/a> about. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9z0bJhDTm7\">pic.twitter.com\/9z0bJhDTm7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Senator Bill Hagerty (@SenatorHagerty) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenatorHagerty\/status\/1452832362874687489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pages 905-912 of the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.house.gov\/meetings\/BU\/BU00\/20210925\/114090\/BILLS-117pih-BuildBackBetterAct.pdf\">\u201cBuild Back Better\u201d act<\/a> contain controversial provisions allowing the U.S. government to \u201crecapture\u201d every unused family-sponsored and employment-sponsored green card since 1992. It would also \u201cexempt family-sponsored and employment-based applicants from numerical limits on visas for an additional fee,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/krishnamoorthi.house.gov\/media\/press-releases\/following-their-strong-advocacy-efforts-reps-krishnamoorthi-manning-and-ross\">according<\/a> to Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), who advocated for the measure along with Congresswomen Kathy Manning (D-NC), and Deborah Ross (D-NC).<\/p>\n<p>Critics call recapturing visas an \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/cis.org\/Law\/Unused-Visas-Immigration-Accounting-Scam\">accounting gimmick<\/a>.\u201d Under current immigration law, legal immigrants have two years to use the minimum number of available visas, with the unused minimum of family visas shifting to the employment category the next year and vice-versa.<\/p>\n<p>Hagerty addressed Sanders because the two-time presidential candidate long broke from Democratic Party orthodoxy by opposing H-1B visas and other green card programs that he believes undercut American citizens\u2019 earnings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWages keep going down\u201d for middle-class Americans, he told then-CNN host and immigration enforcement advocate Lou Dobbs in 2007. \u201cI don\u2019t why we need millions of people to be coming into this country as guest workers who will<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Republican colleague has asked U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) why he supports little-known immigration provisions of the \u201cBuild Back Better\u201d plan that would allow foreign workers to take American jobs and lower the wages of the middle class. Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) said he was puzzled that the Vermont-based democratic socialist would support \u201cthe crown jewel of corporate lobbying.\u201dThe proposal would allow Silicon Valley tech firms \u201cto employ a functionally limitless supply of cheaper foreign labor in place of willing, able, and qualified American workers,\u201d Hagerty wrote in an October 22 \u201cDear Colleague\u201d letter to Sanders, obtained by this reporter and later posted to social media.\u201cThese Big Tech companies can hire as many foreign workers as they want. They don\u2019t have to worry about discriminating against American workers; they can do it all day long,\u201d Senator Hagerty told Laura Ingraham on Monday night.\u201cThe big issue here is we\u2019re going to harm American workers, and we\u2019re going to take away the opportunity from our kids,\u201d he continued. \u201cThe last thing we want is for those jobs to be given to foreign workers. \u2026 This will knock out opportunity for a generation to come.\u201dSanders and Democrats favor #BigTech &#038; corporate lobbyists over American workers and their wages.Don&#8217;t believe me? Look at the radical provisions hidden in their tax-and-spend spree that I\u2019ve written @SenSanders about. pic.twitter.com\/9z0bJhDTm7\u2014 Senator Bill Hagerty (@SenatorHagerty) October 26, 2021Pages 905-912 of the \u201cBuild Back Better\u201d act contain controversial provisions allowing the U.S. government to \u201crecapture\u201d every unused family-sponsored and employment-sponsored green card since 1992. It would also \u201cexempt family-sponsored and employment-based applicants from numerical limits on visas for an additional fee,\u201d according to Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), who advocated for the measure along with Congresswomen Kathy Manning (D-NC), and Deborah Ross (D-NC).Critics call recapturing visas an \u201caccounting gimmick.\u201d Under current immigration law, legal immigrants have two years to use the minimum number of available visas, with the unused minimum of family visas shifting to the employment category the next year and vice-versa.Hagerty addressed Sanders because the two-time presidential candidate long broke from Democratic Party orthodoxy by opposing H-1B visas and other green card programs that he believes undercut American citizens\u2019 earnings.\u201cWages keep going down\u201d for middle-class Americans, he told then-CNN host and immigration enforcement advocate Lou Dobbs in 2007. \u201cI don\u2019t why we need millions of people to be coming into this country as guest workers who will work for lower wages than American workers and drive wages down even lower than they are right now.\u201dNumerous studies bear out the notion that higher immigration rates lower the wages of U.S. citizens. The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) reported:A UCLA study found that H-1B engineers were paid 33 percent less than comparable U.S. citizens.\u00a0A Cornell University study found that H-1B programmers and engineers were underpaid by 20 to 30 percent.\u00a0An INS report found that the computer-related H-1B employees were paid a median salary 25 percent less than the national median for their field.\u00a0\u00a0A National Research Council report found that \u201cH-1B workers requiring lower levels of high tech skill received lower wages, less senior job titles, smaller signing bonuses, and smaller pay and compensation increases than would be typical for the work they did.\u201d\u00a0It also found that H-1Bs have an adverse impact on overall wage levels.\u00a0The Independent Computer Consultants Association reports that the use of cheaper foreign labor has forced down the hourly rates of\u00a0U.S.\u00a0consultants by as much as ten to 40 percent.\u00a0Sanders dismissed calls for free immigration as a libertarian-corporate policy that progressives should reject. \u201cOpen borders? That\u2019s a Koch Brothers proposal,\u201d Senator Sanders said. \u201cThat\u2019s a right-wing proposal which says, essentially, there is no United States,\u201d he said. \u201cIt would make everybody in America poorer. You\u2019re doing away with the concept of a nation-state.\u201d Sanders was so outspoken that Vox wrote a story in 2015 headlined, \u201cBernie Sanders\u2019s fear of immigrant labor is ugly \u2014 and wrongheaded.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-924305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=924305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}