Elizabeth Warren Pledges Amnesty for Illegal Aliens: It's 'Good' for American Workers
2020 Democrat says she wants to bring illegals 'out of the shadows'
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2020 Democratic frontrunner Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has pledged to bring illegal aliens "out of the shadows" by offering them amnesty in the United States.
Warren, who's edging toward the top spot for the Democrat presidential nomination, says that by legitimizing illegal immigrants living in the US, it will be "good for" American workers.
The Massachusetts senator says she was to get illegal aliens "into our unions" and help the newly legalized low-skilled foreign workers to be able to compete for jobs with American workers.
Warren made the calls during a town hall with the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) union in Madison Heights, Michigan.
She pledged to give amnesty to all the 12 to 22 million illegal aliens currently living in the country.
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Despite such a move being likely to drive up foreign competition in the labor market for America’s working and blue-collar class, Warren claims that it would be "good for all workers."
Sen. Warren said:
"We need a pathway to citizenship for the people who are here and here to stay.
"They are our neighbors; they are our brothers and sisters.
"They are here.
"We need a path — not just for DREAMers — but also a path for grandmas, and for little kids, and for people who came here to work on farms, and for students who overstayed their visas.
"We need a path that is fair and achievable. Bring people out of the shadows.
"It is good for all workers, and we need to get them into our unions." [Emphasis added]
Similarly, Warren is promising to expand legal immigration levels, which are already at historically record-high rates, according to Breitbart.
About 1.2 million mostly low-skilled legal immigrants are admitted every year, not including the hundreds of thousands who arrive on temporary visas to compete against Americans for jobs.
“We need to expand legal immigration,” Warren said.
“The Trump administration has cut it.
"Families are separated now for years through the legal system.
"People are frustrated with what they can’t do.”
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Though Warren has taken a populist-nationalist stance on various economic policies, her plan to support more immigration to the U.S. is a key component of the globalist ideology supported by the nation’s donor class.
High levels of immigration, illegal and legal, put downward pressure on U.S. wages while redistributing about $500 billion in wealth away from America’s working and middle class and towards employers and new arrivals, research by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has found.
Research by analyst Steven Camarotta has found that every one percent increase in the immigrant portion of American workers’ occupations reduces their weekly wages by about 0.5 percent.
This means the average native-born American worker today has his weekly wages reduced by perhaps 8.5 percent because of current legal immigration levels.
While Warren seeks to increase foreign competition against American workers in the labor market, President Donald Trump has pursued policy initiatives to decrease competition, increasing U.S. wages and give American workers leverage over businesses.
