politics

Stop that, please.

Musk is not a politician.

Do not normalize this by even referring to him as such. He has never held elected office.

That's the only way to keep salaries depressed, which is why they're brought in. If they could switch jobs, there'd be competition among potential employers and the salaries would increase. The whole H1B scheme is a filthy racket. It depresses the wages of non-H1B workers, it exploits those on an H1B visa, and there's a whole cottage industry of faking recruitment campaigns before showing that a company was "forced" to fill a critical skills shortage with an H1B holder. For example, the qualifications can be written so that only people on certain Indian of Chinese computer-science courses can have the required coursework. Not that the applicant necessarily took the course, though: there's another cottage industry in India and in China of people doing exams on someone else's behalf.

And then there's industrial espionage...

Human Commodities

I don’t understand how anyone thinks immigrants steal jobs

Econ 101 Supply/Demand charts tell us that if the supply of laborers goes up, the price for each laborer must fall.

So it's less stealing jobs and more stealing bargaining power for pay.

Of course, this ignores the price fixing power of monopsony. Prices can also be low because there is only one buyer of labor (or one big cartel) in an industry that refuses to employ outside of a certain price range. If you pick up Peter Theil's book "Zero to One", you'll read all about how the end goal of a business owner is to corner the market and dictate price within the industry.

“Stealing” jobs is just Americans being willfully ignorant that these people are willing to work shit conditions, for less pay, so they can get that “American Dream” they’ve been sold so often.

Yes, you’re correct the corps are enabling it but the other aspect is our own citizens being ignorant fucks and not caring about adjusting their views because it would mean admitting they are wrong.

Immigrants are in a more precarious position and are harder to get on board with unionisation efforts. The H1B visa specifically is designed specifically to undermine worker solidarity. If you're on a H1B visa and you get fired, your visa is cancelled and you go back home, to be replaced by someone else. There's similar incentives at play for undocumented migrants.

Any immigration that doesn't include a full green card is bad for all workers.

Yuuuup. A lot of "illegal immigration"and often even the technically legal stuff is honestly closer to "human trafficking." They want people they can pay less and who will be too scared of ICE to speak up about labor violations and shady / dangerous business practices. A looot of nursing homes are staying in business while understaffing to the point of extreme neglect by hiring immigrant nurses then telling them they'll get deported or owe them $10k+ for breaking their contract or otherwise losing them as an employer. This is how you wind up hearing stories about a nursing home that had one nursing assistant responsible for 32+ patients, half or more total care who in addition to needing to be fed and cleaned also need to be turned side to side every two hours to not literally wear holes in the skin over their bones. In my clinical placement I saw a pressure injury from a nursing home so big the wound care nurse could fit her fist in and when she debrided the dead tissue you could see the sacrum underneath. The nurses at these places are too scared to speak up because even if what the employer is telling them is illegal they don't know for sure or it would take resources they don't have to fight it. And by the time the patient gets any help you've got those massive pressure ulcers. I'm very pro DNR just let me go ffs.

Read between the lines. More unions in USA means companies have less guys to be robbed for profits. So they - especially Leon - need more workers for less money. Leon needs slaves!

It's not really "between the lines" when he's been straight up shouting exactly that for years. He's been very vocal about it at least since he bought Twitter, "keeping only the most talented ones who really want to work" and it turned out that only the immigrants who can't AFFORD to leave stayed for shit pay.

Thank you

I don't know. I think the way he's alienating people, sooner or later he's going to annoy the wrong person and end up finding himself falling out a window.

Just a thought. An observation, not a prediction or a threat.

Yeah he proved that he basically bank rolls many GOP members and without being elected anywhere he was able to pull the shut down stunt. He is ingrained into this campaign no matter what.

They don't have to lie any more. They only need 4 years.