re: New development tonight: senators working on comprehensive deal: wall for bunch of stuff

Tell the dems that they will get nothing.

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ETA: Agreed on the education though. Americans need to get more interested in STEM.

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An often repeated myth that has found its way into popular culture thanks to free traders, outsourcers, and mass immigration advocates.

"A compelling body of research is now available, from many leading academic researchers and from respected research organizations such as the National Bureau of Economic Research, the RAND Corporation, and the Urban Institute. No one has been able to find any evidence indicating current widespread labor market shortages or hiring difficulties in science and engineering occupations that require bachelors degrees or higher, although some are forecasting high growth in occupations that require post-high school training but not a bachelors degree. All have concluded that U.S. higher education produces far more science and engineering graduates annually than there are S&E job openings—the only disagreement is whether it is 100 percent or 200 percent more. Were there to be a genuine shortage at present, there would be evidence of employers raising wage offers to attract the scientists and engineers they want. But the evidence points in the other direction: Most studies report that real wages in many—but not all—science and engineering occupations have been flat or slow-growing, and unemployment as high or higher than in many comparably-skilled occupations."

LINK

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I don’t really care about DACA as long as they never get citizenship

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They will be given green cards and then citizenship by the judiciary about five minutes after they are given any sort of visa. Deportation is the only solution.

The hatred of amnesty is epic in the GOP base. It's the main reason Marco Rubio no longer has higher political ambitions. Remember the gang of eight debacle? No GOP Pol with an ounce of sense will sign on to an amnesty.

Trump already rejected the wall for DACA - no chance Stephen Miller lets him accept it this time.

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H2B


is a visa program. It's very popular with donors of both parties to bring in foreign workers to replace more expensive American workers. Expanding it would be a mistake.

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This program is huuge in the IT sector. The key point is your employer holds your visa. It is slave labor. You bring in a bright kid from India, he soon realizes he could get another job for double the pay and half the work....not so fast my friend unless you wanna go back to India. And yes you many times replace a US worker, even making them train their replacement. Even though the premise of the h2b visa is that the person has a skill you cannot source with US labor.

The bright side is, a lot of these sharp kids do find a way/avenue to stay in the US and help the economy, and become citizens....unlike the ganbangers from the south.

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A great many people overstay their visas and then get welfare.

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Most people who overstay their visas are students/business people/family members, who do not stay permanently.

The overstaying of visas, or the fact they travel by plane, is just a shiny object the left throws out there. People who travel by plane to go to Stanford and stay an extra semester while they work out their VISA, are not the problem.

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Why the frick is it that the GOP is always the one doing the compromising.


frick every bit of this.


I regret that I have but one upvote to give.

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Two upvotes. WE ALREADY DID COMPROMISE UNDER REAGAN, WE HAVE 28 MILLION ILLEGALS AND ANOTHER 20 MILLION ANCHOR BABIES TO PROVE IT.

So essentially the Gang of 8 bill?

Look on the bright side...

Crawfish would probably be around $5.00 per lb if it weren't for TPS and H2B workers.

Doesn't mean I support though.

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Have had to use it several times in rural areas where we couldn’t find enough locals capable of passing a drug test

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... For the wages you wanted to pay. A market for me, but not for thee. Typical.