Critics: Trump’s Deputies Break His Cheap-Labor Immigration Promise on Day One

Ianus · Ianus

I wouldn't usually post such an article, but the information given was interesting.

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President Donald Trump’s deputies have yet to stop the Department of Homeland Security from printing more of President Obama’s work permits for younger illegals who claim they were brought into the United States when they were younger than 16.

This inaction is in violation of one of Trump’s most prominent campaign promises, and it also gives away bargaining power that Trump needs to make the GOP-led Congress implement his popular campaign promises on immigration reform, warns Mark Krikorian, head of the Center for Immigration Studies.

“It is an explicit betrayal of a promise he made — Point number five in his Phoenix speech” on immigration policy, Krikorian told Breitbart News. “That is a red line they have crossed less than three days into their administration.”

In his August speech in Phoenix, Ariz., Trump promised to immediately stop Obama’s amnesty and work permit programs, saying:

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Number Five: Cancel Unconstitutional Executive Orders & Enforce All Immigration Laws

We will immediately terminate President Obama’s two illegal executive amnesties, in which he defied federal law and the Constitution to give amnesty to approximately five million illegal immigrants.

Those popular promises to reform the nation’s cheap-labor economic strategy were vital to Trump’s destruction of the Democrats’ midwestern “blue-wall” on election day.

Trump repeated his promises in his inauguration speech, saying, “We will follow two simple rules: Buy American and Hire American.”

Trump’s media aides did not respond to emails from Breitbart.

In 2012, Obama announced his “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival” decision and directed immigration officials to stop trying to repatriate illegals who claim they were brought into the country as children before June 2012. Some of the recipients are now aged 35.

Obama also ordered officials to actually give work permits to the younger illegals. Those DACA work permits allow the migrants to take jobs needed by millions of Americans who have fallen out of the job market since the 2008 crash. All told, Obama’s deputies have printed work permits for more than 750,000 of the foreigners, even though huge numbers of young Americans either lack jobs or are stuck in low paying, part-time jobs. Obama also minimized the repatriations of illegals, and dramatically increased the inflow of white-collar contract workers for jobs sought by young American graduates.

Obama’s DACA work permits are each valid for two years, and DHS officials are still refreshing expiring permits, as well as handing out new permits to new applicants.

Trump’s campaign promise would have been very easy to keep, Krikorian said. His staff should have called the Department of Homeland Security in November to tell them to stop issuing new work permits for the DACA illegals as soon as Trump became president on Jan. 20, he said. “That’s all it would take,” he added.

That slow-motion policy would allow the current two-year permits to gradually expire, without the liberals’ “cartoon” vision of Trump suddenly cancelling the permits and quickly rounding up the migrants for deportation, he said.

The failure to act indicates that the Chamber of Commerce Republicans in Trump’s White House — led by Chief of Staff Reince Priebus — are pushing aside his populist campaign promises, Krikorian warned.

The failure to stop printing work permits for illegals also means that Trump is giving away bargaining power that he needs to make GOP and Democratic legislators fulfill his major immigration campaign promises, Krikorian said. For example, Trump should stop updating the DACA work permits until the Congress agrees to fully fund the border fence, to force employers to verify that each job applicant has the right to work and to cut legal immigration by ending the practice of giving Green Cards to the extended family members of recent immigrants, he said. Any deal that favors the DACA illegals should also end the so-called “Diversity Lottery” that brings in 50,000 legal immigrants each year, regardless of education or skills, he said.

“I’m for giving Green Cards to the DACA [illegals], but we have to get something back” via a deal in Congress, Krikorian said.

Moreover, a DACA deal will allow the Trump administration to strike a bigger deal that would provide Green Cards to most existing illegal immigrants in exchange for getting legislators to sharply cut annual legal immigration, Krikorian said. In August 2016, Trump also promised to cut the record rate of legal immigration down to prior historical levels.

Currently, the federal government annually awards Green Cards to roughly one million legal immigrants, and annually invites roughly one million foreign contract workers to stay in the United States for up to seven years. That business-boosting cheap labor policy hugely inflates the new labor supply by almost 50 percent each year, sharply cutting wages and salaries for the roughly four million young Americans who enter the workforce each year. In turn, that loss of jobs and wealth among Americans helps spur demand for illegal drugs.

But the failure of Trump’s deputies to immediately stop issuing new DACA work permits suggests that Priebus and his allies — including House Speaker Paul Ryan — are hustling him to make a border wall deal that would not reduce the annual inflow of cheap foreign labor into the United States, said Krikorian.

Liberal blogger Mickey Kaus — who backs Trump’s immigration reform plans — also says Trump is giving up negotiating power with the cheap-labor establishment.

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So Obama created 'facts on ground' re DACA decree. Trump scared 2 pull trigger 2 reverse. Weak negotiating position!

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https://t.co/pA2UseGHHk

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 23, 2017

Currently, establishment Republicans are willing to support some kind of wall if they can preserve the inflow of foreign labor, which also serves as additional customers for restaurants, retail stores, and property developers.

In recent statements, Ryan has repeatedly said that Trump has only asked him to complete the border wall. One of Ryan’s top deputies also made the same claim.

Those Ryan statements indicate that he is still trying to preserve or even increase the annual inflow of foreign workers, which transfers roughly $500 billion a year from wages into profits and also reduces the high-tech investment in automation and robots that is needed to keep Americans’ wages rising in a low-wage global economy.

In January, for example, Ryan called for an amnesty-style immigration policy that would allow employers to hire an unlimited supply of cheap foreign workers instead of competing for the limited supply of Americans workers by offering them better pay and training:

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I think you have to secure the border. I think you have to have reforms that get people to come out of the shadows and get right with the law and get — and make sure that while you’re securing the border, you’re fixing what’s broken in the legal immigration system. I think we need to have an immigration system that is wired for what our economy needs … I think we should give visas based on what the economy needs.

If Trump is not careful, Ryan and Priebus may try to push him into that cheap-labor-forever deal later this year, Krikorian warned.

The pro-establishment deal may be called the “Group of Eight” or the “Collection of Eight,” mimicking the 2013 coalition dubbed the Gang of Eight,” Krikorian said. That 2013 deal — which was blocked by GOP primary voters — would have shifted even more of the nation’s annual income from workers to investors, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

On Jan. 22, Priebus suggested he wants the border-wall-for-cheap-labor exchange. “I think we’re going to work with the House and Senate leadership, as well as to get a long-term solution on that issue,” Priebus told Fox News Sunday. “I’m not going to make any commitments to you,” Priebus said.

On Jan. 23, White House spokesman Sean Spicer evaded reporters’ questions about the DACA work permits, saying:

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I think the president has been clear that he is going to prioritize the areas of dealing with the immigration system, both building the wall and making sure that we address people who are in this county illegally. First and foremost, the president’s been very, very clear that we need to direct agencies to focus on those who are in this country illegally and have a record, a criminal record or pose a threat to the American people. That’s where the priority is going to be.

“That’s my fear [for 2017]… maybe [Trump] will formally amnesty the DACA [illegals] in exchange for nothing [from Congress], or in exchange for some phony border bill that he doesn’t need because the president has all the authority to do all the fencing or the wall on the border,” he said.

“I’m afraid they’re going to use that [bad deal] as an excuse [for abandoning immigration labor reform, saying]—‘We’ve passed this border bill in exchange for giving Green Cards to the DACA [illegals] and now we’re moving on to the next thing,’” Krikorian said.

However, Ryan and the GOP are worried about the voters’ bipartisan hostility to the cheap-labor programs. In December, Ryan cancelled a 2015 measure that he supported to let companies annually bring in 196,000 additional blue-collar contract workers via the H-2B visa program.

Perhaps there is a sweet spot for a 2017 immigration bill.

JohannBernoulli1667 · JohannBernoulli1667

It would be so ironic if it happened. There is definitely a battle going on within the whitehouse. Do you think someone like Ivanka's husband and Priebus are behind keeping DACA at least for now?

Or do you think Obama's words and threats are the ones behind this?

jaylove16 · jaylove16

This is the Ianus I remember.

Regards from dap OG lilbawler2001

eva02 · eva02

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Originally Posted by JohannBernoulli1667

It would be so ironic if it happened. There is definitely a battle going on within the whitehouse. Do you think someone like Ivanka's husband and Priebus are behind keeping DACA at least for now?

Or do you think Obama's words and threats are the ones behind this?

Preibus for sure, but his Time interview and comment to Durbin are very telling. He might actually have a soft spot for dreamers.

Obama also still has a lot of influence. The more Trump is goofing it up in office, the more people will miss the calm composure of Obama. Having Obama overshadow him will hurt his ego. The media will portray Trump as a heartless person and Obamawill be prompt up as a hero. Once again, he wasn't able to tie his hands with legislation, but he did it even more masterfully.

Gatsby26 · Gatsby26

Without even clicking on the article, I knew that it came from Brietbart. It's easy to see how they rile up their readers.

Ianus · Ianus

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Originally Posted by jaylove16

This is the Ianus I remember.

Regards from dap OG lilbawler2001

Lol, had no idea it was you. What happened to your old account?

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Originally Posted by JohannBernoulli1667

It would be so ironic if it happened. There is definitely a battle going on within the whitehouse. Do you think someone like Ivanka's husband and Priebus are behind keeping DACA at least for now?

Or do you think Obama's words and threats are the ones behind this?

I think Obama's words would have the opposite effect actually. However, I think you should have read this. It might offer insight on why Trump might wanna be cautious and why it could be a combination of both.

Internally, I think Trump is trying to mesh the hard-liners with the pro-business as a single faction within his administration. For the President, I think it might actually be an ego boost that both sides are seeking his counsel or favor while secretly allying with each side as it becomes expedient for the time period. Currently, the pro-business side seems to be winning. However, I would caution about the hardliners and their influence as time goes on and it gets to the 2018 elections.

Got_Daca · Got_Daca

Diversity lottery is a travesty. It is stupid and should be scrapped for DACA to PR deal.

isk84life · isk84life

Yes yes! Give green cards to those DACA illegals lol. Honestly, what this guy is asking for is fair. End chain migration and move to a high skilled system. Implement E-verify and legalize everyone else.

eva02 · eva02

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Originally Posted by isk84life

Yes yes! Give green cards to those DACA illegals lol. Honestly, what this guy is asking for is fair. End chain migration and move to a high skilled system. Implement E-verify and legalize everyone else.

One of their arguments is that DACA recepients will turn around and legalize their parents. Not sure if the article stated this. They consider it a form of chain migration even though almost all of our parents are already here.

year2010 · year2010

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Originally Posted by Ianus

Lol, had no idea it was you. What happened to your old account?
I think Obama's words would have the opposite effect actually. However, I think you should have read this. It might offer insight on why Trump might wanna be cautious and why it could be a combination of both.

Internally, I think Trump is trying to mesh the hard-liners with the pro-business as a single faction within his administration. For the President, I think it might actually be an ego boost that both sides are seeking his counsel or favor while secretly allying with each side as it becomes expedient for the time period. Currently, the pro-business side seems to be winning. However, I would caution about the hardliners and their influence as time goes on and it gets to the 2018 elections.

The article you found is amazing, which is exactly I'm afraid of, I'm afraid that DACA will slowly lose its value to negotiate anything good for us. It's not to say I wish Somethig happen to DAca, but I do hope they could push for it, keep the issue alive.

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Critics: Trump’s Deputies Break His Cheap-Labor Immigration Promise on Day One