Immigration to US to be halted due to virus – Trump
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For one, no labor could be hired to perform many farm duties, and certainly not for the amount that farms pay foreign temp workers.
Similarly, Silicon Valley is also hugely dependent. Indeed, if firms could hire locally, they won't jump through the extra hoops to secure work visas - yet we see so many folks on work visas all across the tech industry.
Last, investor visas also inject a sizable amount of capital into the US capital markets and pulling the plug on that when many businesses can't access capital just doesn't make any sense. Most of these people do not even need to work anyway.
I am afraid this is going to accomplish precisely the opposite of what he set out to do.
They...could. It would just cost more. This is a controversial topic because everyone has differing experiences on opposite sides of this "debate".
The opportunity is definitely there to roboticize the backbreaking work those faceless poorly dressed "peasants" are subject to under the watchful gaze of new bossman from investor capitalized Communist Party China. Isreali robotics firms have demo proofs of concepts years ago. Even Elon Musk has posted YouTube clips of potato size sorting machine.
Americans will do the work. They won't if an excess of unskilled labor drives down the wages, but that doesn't have to happen. We don't need to keep an underclass.
this is not meant to accomplish anything other than to garner him votes for his re-election and to further the republican assault on immigration. it has nothing to do with actual jobs.