re: New Iberia car accident results in death of local school Principal.

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AgLogistics say that they are here legally... Nobody else wants to do this work

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(Edit: I am replacing “skilled” with “professional” in my original post to avoid any confusion. I did a stupid and didn’t realize that skilled (ie, licensed and/ or specialized academic training) doesn’t automatically equate to professional outside of economist speak.)

Ah, yes, the old "we can't find professional workers, we need more visas" lie. This "program" needs to end yesterday. No professional domestic worker, from CDL truck driver to computer engineer, can afford to compete with visa holders that will work for pennies on the dollar, and in some cases below minimum wage (this happens when workers are paid in a complex piece-rate manner, under recording the hours workers worked, refusing to pay over-time wages, and making illegal deductions from workers’ pay, like charging them for room and board when the employer is legally required to provide free housing and meals to workers). A lot of times, professional foreign workers never actually make any money because they arrive in debt to recruiters.

Ever wonder why there's wage stagnation in so many professions? This is why. The whole professional visa guest worker program bullshite is a scam and drives down US wages, and is actually bad for the foreign professional workers as well.