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Joe Biden Promises 125,000 Refugees Each Year

Joe Biden wants to import at least 125,000 refugees next year, so offering a huge inflow of cheap disposable labor to meatpackers, farm companies, retailers, and other low-wage, low-tech employers. 

Bhutanese refugees lunch at a camp in Kathmandu before leaving for the United States on December 13, 2010. More than 100,000 refugees of Nepalese origin who left Bhutan after ethnic tensions in the early 1990s, have been living in exile in United Nations refugee camps in southern Nepal. US and …

Washington Post: Migrant Labor Spreads Coronavirus

Low-wage migrant farm workers are spreading coronavirus through the southeast United States as they pick crops by hand, so the fix is more testing and medical care, not more labor-saving automation, according to the Washington Post.

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NYTimes: Import More Workers to Expand the Economy

The supply of extra workers doesn’t have much effect on wages, so the government should import the foreign workers demanded by investors, says a February 27 New York Times  article, titled “Why a Top Trump Aide Said ‘We Are Desperate’ for More Immigrants.”

A farmer in Hastings, Minn. Photo: Kerem Yucel/AFP/Getty Images