I have to hand it to the N&O, it’s had some stories recently that made me sit up at the breakfast table and say, “What the …?”
Like this one about Sen. Thom Tillis, who is considered a Republican. The paper reported:
Tillis … placed a hold on Lee Francis Cissna’s nomination to be director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services – a department within Homeland Security whose 19,000 employees and contractors deals with naturalization, green cards, visas for temporary workers and the e-verify program that checks job applicants for legal residency in the country.
Senate custom allows a single senator to block legislation or presidential nominations through the use of a hold. … Tillis took the action to pressure Homeland Security to speed up a decision on making available more H-2B visas – a program that allows American businesses to hire seasonal foreign workers for non-agricultural jobs.
Golly gee. I remember Tillis’ run for the Senate and I don’t recall one of his main talking points being: “I’m going to bring more immigrants here to get jobs.” That would be fun to see at his next race, though, wouldn’t it?
I do remember Donald Trump campaigning in North Carolina, and my recollection is that he was less enthusiastic about immigrants taking American jobs. I also recollect he won NC and the election.
Also, I was happy to be reminded about the awesome power of senators to block anything they want.
Conservatives are rightly unhappy that one (or a few) federal judges can block elected legislatures, Congress or the president from executing their duties.
I forgot we had an oligarchy — rule by a few powerful people, such as judges, bureaucrats, and in this instance one senator.
Obviously the issue of immigration is more complicated than Trump and NCCivitas thought it was. No surprise!
Maine is having to hire local people to fill the summer jobs as gardeners and pool boys because there is a lack of H2B people available. It’s a tragedy, I’m sure, that Americans have to go to work. That is how Tillis sees it- we need the foreign “guest workers” to do the jobs that unemployed Americans don’t want to do.
The issue is not that complicated. We don’t need any more “guest workers” until all the unemployed Americans get some sort of job.
Actually immigration is not so complicated. For everyone that comes in, that is one less job for a US citizen to fill. Businesses encourage this to keep wages low. More supply equals less demand for wages to increase.
15,000 more workers on their way. Life would be simple if conservative ideology actually worked for everyone. Workers and unemployed.. the likes of Trump and NCCivitas have taken you for a ride! All in all you just another brick in the wall…