{"id":18259,"date":"2013-06-25T18:26:07","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T22:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=18259"},"modified":"2013-06-25T18:26:07","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T22:26:07","slug":"left-right-agree-immigration-bill-hurts-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/18259\/left-right-agree-immigration-bill-hurts-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Left &#038; Right Agree: Immigration Bill Hurts Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) has been telling anyone who will listen that the immigration reform bill set to pass the U.S. Senate will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/politics\/national\/alabama-sen-jeff-sessions-the-fierce-unrelenting-opponent-of-immigration\/2127863 \" target=\"_blank\">hurt low-skill and entry-level workers<\/a>. Flood the market with millions of cheap labor, and the results will be a dip in wages and a scarcity of jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) agrees. This week Sanders, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bernie_Sanders\" target=\"_blank\">the Socialist who caucuses with Democrats in the Senate<\/a>, got the Gang of Eight and their allies to include <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/new-amendment-adds-jobs-bill-to-gang-of-eight-immigration-plan\/article\/2532293\" target=\"_blank\">a program that will fund summer jobs for American youths (ages 16-24) displaced by the wave of legalized immigrants<\/a> once the reform becomes law.<\/p>\n<p>Cost to taxpayers: <em>$1.5 billion over two years<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The Sanders program is one of the price-spiking changes made by the <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/18245\/rand-stands-firm-on-border-security\/\" target=\"_blank\">Corker-Hoeven amendment<\/a> to the Gang of Eight\u2019s immigration bill.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the cost, including the provision undermines the Gang\u2019s argument that legalizing 11 million people won\u2019t have a negative impact on current legal workers.<\/p>\n<p>If this bill becomes law, it\u2019s almost certain that this won\u2019t be Congress\u2019 last attempt to spend its way out of an unemployment problem it is choosing to create.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T: Byron York<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) has been telling anyone who will listen that the immigration reform bill set to pass the U.S. Senate will hurt low-skill and entry-level workers. Flood the market with millions of cheap labor, and the results will be a dip in wages and a scarcity of jobs. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) agrees. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[650,84,4100,981,1649,1186,1447,38,18],"class_list":["post-18259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-congress","tag-gang-of-eight","tag-immigration","tag-jeff-sessions","tag-labor","tag-reform","tag-senate","tag-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18259"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18268,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18259\/revisions\/18268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}