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    Trump's Labor Department Pick: Put Americans Last




    Trump’s Labor Department Pick: Put Americans Last



    By Mark Krikorian — December 8, 2016


    Trump had three cabinet slots to fill that are most important for immigration policy (several others have important, but secondary, roles, such as HHS, which handles refugees once they arrive).


    The first pick was Sen. Jeff Sessions, Congress’s leading and most knowledgeable immigration skeptic, as Attorney General. Although INS was removed from the Justice Department when Homeland Security was created, DoJ is still intimately involved in the issue – it houses the immigration courts and will take the lead role in trying to rein in the renegade cities and states that are planning massive resistance to protect their segregation sanctuary laws.


    Next, Trump named retired Marine Gen. John Kelly for Homeland Security. This is obviously the lead agency for immigration and Kelly, former head of the Pentagon’s Southern Command, which oversees military activity in Latin America, is a strong advocate for border security. It remains to be seen if he will devote equal focus to the non-security aspects of immigration, such as interior enforcement, visa overstays, green cards and the like. There’s no reason to think he won’t, but it’s still an open question.



    Finally, there’s the Labor Department. Labor is central to the process of certifying and importing all the various categories of guestworkers that undermine the bargaining power of American workers – H1-Bs for the tech industry, H-2As for agriculture, H-2Bs for non-ag cheap-labor employers, and more. In addition, prior to the Obama administration, Labor Department inspectors were a force multiplier for immigration regarding worksite enforcement – coordinating with ICE (and before that, INS) on worksite problems the immigration people weren’t aware of.



    Trump’s pick for Labor secretary is perhaps the worst person imaginable for that role: Andrew Puzder, CEO of CKE Restaurants, the parent company of fast-food chains Carl’s Jr., Hardee’s, and others. He is one of the nation’s most outspoken business voices for Gang of Eight-style immigration policies. He didn’t just sign an open letter once as a favor to a friend; he’s been a high-profile champion of amnesty and huge increases in immigration and guestworkers. This op-ed in Politico, timed to coincide with the launch of the Gang of Eight effort in 2013, could have been written by Jeb Bush. Here he is at AEI in 2013 making the case for importing more low-skilled workers. Here he joins with the Bloomberg-Murdoch Billionaires for Open Borders outfit and Grover Norquist in an effort to “push 2016 presidential candidates and congressional Republican leaders to support immigration reform this year.” There’s plenty more.



    Now, Trump has been waffling and contradictory on the worker side of immigration (among other things) all along – I’ve written about it here, here, and here, for instance. Nor is it the case that Trump’s simply a liberal con man – Sessions could be one of the best Attorneys General we’ve ever had, Price and DeVos are solid conservative picks, and there’s every reason to think his Supreme Court nomination will be sound.



    But for the most important job that involves protecting American workers, Trump has opted for someone who thinks there are jobs Americans won’t do. Andrew “Gang of Eight” Puzder would have been a better fit for the Jeb Bush administration, though even Jeb might have blushed at the idea of appointing him. Assuming he’s actually nominated and confirmed, the Labor Department will go from being run by a post-American socialist to a post-American capitalist. So much for putting American workers first.


    #NeverPuzder.




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    Make a statement. Be heard. ALIPAC is strength in numbers.
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    Puzder stated publicly this year that he believes all illegal aliens who are criminals or public charges (on welfare) should be deported. 87% of illegal aliens are on welfare and public charges. So someone who wants to deport all illegal aliens on welfare plus the criminals, that's well over 90%. A Secretary of Labor who believes that and said so publicly? That will be a first in my life-time.

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    Trump Expected to Tap Labor Secretary Who Prefers Foreign Labor to American Workers

    Trump Expected to Tap Labor Secretary Who Prefers Foreign Labor to American Workers

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    by JULIA HAHN8 Dec 2016Washington D.C.5931


    President-elect Donald J. Trump is expected to name as his Labor Secretary fast food executive Andy Puzder, who stands diametrically opposed to Trump’s signature issues on trade and immigration — which won him the election.

    Puzder is the chief executive of CKE Restaurants, which includes Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s.

    Advocates for American wage-earners say that Puzder as Secretary of Labor is alarming because he will be in charge of enacting policies that directly impact American workers, whom Puzder believes are “unwilling” to do certain jobs. Puzder has suggested that available U.S. jobs should instead be filled by imported foreign labor.

    Puzder has even gone so far as to suggest that he prefers foreign laborers to native-born American workers because foreign nationals are more grateful and have a better “attitude.”

    “The fact is that there are jobs in this country that U.S. citizens, for whatever reason, are reluctant or unwilling to perform,” he said in a 2013Politico op-ed in which he advocated for expansionist immigration policies.

    As the Washington Post reported, Puzder suggested that flipping burgers is one such job Americans simply won’t do:

    “Andrew Puzder, head of the California-based Hardee’s fast-food chain, said his business is a good fit for immigrants because they are willing to start at the bottom and work up…

    “Immigrants appreciate what America offers,” Puzder said during a recent visit to Washington to lobby for immigration reform. “They are not taking jobs from Americans, because there are not sufficient Americans applying for jobs. Maybe they feel they have better options.”


    Acclaimed Manhattan Institute scholar Heather Mac Donald was critical of Puzder’s logic in a piece titled, “Does America Need More Hamburger-Flippers?” Mac Donald wrote:

    Isn’t the argument for importing low-skilled immigrants that they take jobs that Americans won’t do? Farm labor is almost certainly one of those hard-to-fill jobs, but it’s news to me that working a fast-food counter is another — unless perhaps that niche becomes dominated by Mexican or Central American immigrants. A black kid from Watts is going to have a hard time getting hired at a Carl’s Jr. in South Central L.A. where all the employees speak to each other in Spanish.



    Polling data suggests that Puzder’s desire to import foreign workers to fill U.S. jobs stands opposed to the desires of the American electorate.

    Indeed, a 2014 poll from Kellyanne Conway’s polling company found that by nearly a 10-1 margin, Americans believe that companies should raise wages and improve working conditions for workers already here – rather than importing new foreign labor from abroad to fill American jobs.

    Yet, during a 2013 AEI panel, Puzder seemed to express his preference for foreign workers over native-born Americans. Puzder said that his California labor force, which has a high percentage of foreign-born workers, is comprised of “hardworking, dedicated, creative people that really appreciate the fact that they have a job. Whereas in other parts of the country you often get people who are saying, ‘I can’t believe I have to work this job.’ With the immigrant population you always have a “Thank-God-I-have-this-job” kind of attitude, so you end up with a real different feeling. Now that’s a gross generalization… but I think it’s probably accurate.”

    Last year, Puzder even joined forces with Michael Bloomberg, Bob Iger, and Rupert Murdoch’s open borders lobbying firm, the Partnership for a New American Economy, to call for “free-market solutions” to our immigration system.

    “America should be a destination for hard-working immigrants from all over the world. Our economy will benefit from that,” Puzder wrote, perhaps unaware of the fact that the U.S. already has the world’s most generous immigration system– admitting one million plus foreign nationals on green cards; one million guest workers, dependents, and refugees; and half a million foreign students each and every year.

    Puzder has been equally vocal about his support for immigration amnesty.

    In 2013, Puzder lamented that the federal government’s current immigration policy is unfair to “undocumented workers who are lured to the country by the prospect of employment, [but] then must live in the shadows.”

    Similarly, in a 2015 op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal’s open borders opinion pages, Puzder declared that “every candidate should support a path to legal status” for all illegal immigrants “willing to accept responsibility for their actions”.

    In a July 2016 Wall Street Journal op-ed co-authored with Stephen Moore, Puzder insisted that the President-elect’s plan to enforce U.S. immigration law and repatriate the illegal population is “unworkable.”

    “[Many undocumented immigrants] live in fear of being deported, losing what they’ve built and being separated from their families,” Puzder separately told reporters during a 2015 conference call with top GOP donors. “Our values indicate we should be the party of immigration reform.”

    By “immigration reform” Puzder was referring to a widely-used progressive euphemism that means amnesty and flooding the labor market with foreign workers. Indeed, as Puzder himself explained in 2013, “comprehensive immigration reform” should include “a robust legal immigration program, including incentives for highly educated people to come to the U.S. and a guest worker program; a pathway to adjusted status for those here illegally now; and special relief for the children of undocumented immigrants.”

    “The reality is that the government is not going to enforce the law effectively now against those who are here unlawfully,” Puzder wrote in 2013. The United States, Puzder reasoned, simply lacks “the will” to enforce U.S. immigration law:

    There are more than 11 million illegal immigrants in our country. Many have families, homes, jobs and children who are American citizens. We simply are not going to take them from their homes, put them in prisons, load them on buses and take them back over the border. Nor will we enact draconian measures that drive them from their homes or their jobs and force them to “self-deport.” As a nation, we lack both the will and the resources to implement such policies.



    More recently, Puzder has argued that “deportation should only be pursued when an illegal immigrant has committed a felony or [has] become a ‘public charge’.”

    However, President-elect Trump himself explained why only enforcing some aspects of U.S. immigration law would be unfair to American workers. During his immigration speech delivered in Phoenix, Arizona, Trump said:

    Immigration law doesn’t exist just for the purpose of keeping out criminals. It exists to protect all aspects of American life – the worksite, the welfare office, the education system and much else. That is why immigration limits are established in the first place. If we only enforce the laws against crime, then we have an open border to the entire world.”



    In his 2016 Wall Street Journal op-ed, Puzder also described himself as a “free trader” who “oppose[s] punitive tariffs.”

    Many have credited Trump’s pro-American worker stance on trade as part of the reason he was able to break through the left’s “blue wall” in states like Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

    As MSNBC’s Chris Matthews explained on election night, Trump won, in large part, due by running against the Washington establishment’s position on trade and immigration:

    The fact that we don’t have an immigration system that we enforce: business wants the cheap labor, Democrats want the jobs and the votes. Nobody’s gotten it together. In terms of trade… just drive through Michigan, drive through Wisconsin, and you’ll see places that are hollowed out…Trump said, ‘You know what, I think I can run against this stuff.’ … It was a legitimate campaign on those issue.



    It remains to be seen whether Puzder will abandon his former open borders positions on these issues and will take up Trump’s pro-American worker platform on trade and immigration, which won him the election.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Goldendaze View Post
    Make a statement. Be heard. ALIPAC is strength in numbers.
    Visit trump's www.greatagain.gov and voice your opposition to Andy Puzder before it's too late.

    I did it!
    Done! This man would be a disaster. He stands for virtually everything we're opposed to.

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    Puzder supports deporting illegal aliens who are criminals and public charges (who are people on welfare). I support that. I thought everyone here did.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Judy View Post
    Puzder supports deporting illegal aliens who are criminals and public charges (who are people on welfare). I support that. I thought everyone here did.
    It's the many other things he supports and has actively advocated for that you're failing to mention. Please don't cherry-pick one little comment he made while ignoring the many other things he has said and done over the last 3 years.

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    I'm not ignoring them, they just don't matter as much to me for his position and the commitment to deport illegal aliens who are criminals and on welfare because that's almost all of them.

    We'll just have to disagree on this one. I think he's going to do a fine job in this position. If I didn't, I would certainly say so.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Judy View Post
    I'm not ignoring them, they just don't matter as much to me for his position and the commitment to deport illegal aliens who are criminals and on welfare because that's almost all of them.

    We'll just have to disagree on this one. I think he's going to do a fine job in this position. If I didn't, I would certainly say so.
    I think you're blinded to the truth because of who is making the nomination, not because of who Pudzer really is. Being opposed to a Trump nominee doesn't mean you don't support Trump. Right or wrong, that's my opinion.

    Oh, and being an illegal amnesty and foreign labor supporter matters very much in the position of Secretary of Labor. According to the article this is the 3rd most important cabinet job for dealing with immigration.
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    While we have just been trying to get our voice heard for the last 40 years, our governments, from smallest cities to Washington, and schools, etc, have been working hard to make sure the illegals are a 'part' or 'involved' in every aspect of this country's life.

    They are married to citizens.
    They are parents to citizens - thanks to the anchor baby law.
    They work in every facet of our economy.
    They have false ID - many of them have several such ID's.
    They operate churches, charities, and are in our military.

    I had let my Sales Tax Permit lapse here in Texas. The office where I went had all manner of signs in Spanish (that's true of all of Texas). My husband was reading the signs while the worker was filling out the forms. He read one aloud and commented that they had written it as someone would actually speak it, while many of the signs are often in very proper, stilted Spanish.

    The worker told my husband they really could use him to work in the office as 'most' of the people applying for tax permits could not speak English.

    Our governments have purposely and feverishly worked to get them entwined in our economy, our schools, our governments. I believe that was just so it would not be easy to send them home. I don't think it was done to get them assimilated, because while they are entwined, they are not necessarily assimilated.

    I have been told an illegal is technically not allowed to receive welfare, there is a strange formula they use to determine how much a household receives in which an illegal resides.

    So I'm thinking this way, it might be hard to 'determine' that illegals receive welfare - governmentally speaking. Plausible deniability.

    It isn't going to be an easy task. It was planned for it not to be easy.

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