Judy brought my attention to a good piece by Byron York this week in the Washington Examiner in which York describes a pro-immigration forum in DC, with both parties represented. The majority of the participants were overwhelmingly in support of more cheap migrant labor.
They were discussing visas for low-skilled workers, but they might as well have been discussing refugee resettlement as well.
Follow the money!
If you are a long-time reader, you know that years ago we established that meatpackers are one of the principle drivers of refugee resettlement in this country. They get cheap captive legal laborers (captive because they can’t easily go home) and then you, the taxpayer, supply many of their other needs through generous welfare!
Type ‘meatpacker’ or ‘meat packer’ into our search function for at least 50 posts on the topic. One of my all-time favorites is Bill Clinton supplying Bosnian laborers to his benefactors in Iowa, here.
And, here, Senator Jeff Sessions calls out the meatpackers as a driving force for amnesty.
Here is Byron York telling us about the lopsided forum.
One of two critics of mass immigration in attendance, Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies, pointed out that chicken plants, which Republican poobah Haley Barbour said needed cheap migrant labor in his home state of Mississippi, could use mechanization as in some other states and thus have less need for low-wage workers. Of course, one other option is for meat packers to PAY MORE and get American workers.
Frankly, it isn’t cheap chicken if we are paying for the ‘social services’ to supplement the low-income workers’ families.