“Comprehensive immigration reform.”
It’s the magic phrase so beloved by liberals.
Despite the lack of enforcement of existing immigration laws especially at the border, liberals claim that “comprehensive immigration reform” will somehow solve the current problems. [emphasis, links added]
Of course, they never get into specifics because to do so would make it very difficult to ever pass such legislation.
The most they do is vaguely suggest a “path to citizenship” (i.e., amnesty) for the millions of people now illegally residing in the United States.
Therefore, Politico and its merry band of liberals in Zach Colman, Myah Ward, and Eli Stokols must be given credit for creativity for dreaming up a wild stretch in order to justify “comprehensive immigration reform.”
See, despite over 300 million people living in America they contend that there are somehow not enough people here to fill the green energy jobs made necessary by, get this, climate change.
Despite the large population of the US, there is a shortage of workers to fill green energy jobs resulting from climate change.
This laughable pitch was put forward on Monday by the trio in “No avoiding it now: Immigration issues threaten Biden’s climate program.”
They dove right into the “comprehensive immigration reform” shtick right from the get-go:
President Joe Biden’s plan for greening the economy relies on a simple pitch: It will create good-paying jobs for Americans.
The problem is there might not be enough Americans to fill them. That reality is pressuring the Biden administration to wrestle with the nation’s immigration system to avoid squandering its biggest legislative achievements.
Got that? It will somehow be difficult to fill green energy jobs with American citizens so we need to import more, more, more people.
They continue beating us over the head with that to the point of asserting the entire green energy push will be imperiled unless we enact you-know-what.
Lawmakers, former administration officials, clean energy and labor advocates said immigration fixes are needed if the administration wants to ensure its biggest victories don’t go to waste — and that the nation can fight climate change, add jobs and beat geopolitical rivals like China in the global marketplace.
Those changes include raising annual visa caps for highly skilled workers needed to grow the next wave of U.S. industry and securing ironclad work protections for people in the country on a temporary basis, they said. It’s the key to building a workforce needed to design, manufacture and install millions of new appliances, solar panels and electric vehicles.
But where are the actual magic words? Fortunately, a few paragraphs later, the Politico stretch team invokes the words as if it is the necessary incantation to solve the green energy jobs problem:
A White House official defended the administration’s record on immigration, noting Biden sent a framework for comprehensive immigration reform to Congress as one of his first presidential actions.
The measure has yet to gain traction.
And there it is! “Comprehensive immigration reform.” What can’t it do? Thanks to Politico, we know it will somehow solve the green energy jobs crises.
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Climate change will kill us all. So, let them all in.
This is a perfect example of how the main reason for the climate change movement is as a vehicle for hitchhiking agendas that can’t make it on their own merit. This is also an example of the extreme hypocrisy of the liberals. The excuse for more immigration is to provide workers for Biden’s plan to reduce emissions. Yet, adding to the US population significantly increases emissions for both the US and world wide. That is because in most cases a person living in the US creates more emissions than if they remained where they came from. The US work force participation is low. We have the people to do the job. In many cases where it is hard to fill a position we need to go no further than look at the pay being offered to understand why.
More immigration can not stand on its own merit. We don’t have enough teachers, doctors and we especially don’t have enough housing. School districts are required to provide programs such as English as a second language. That takes money away from other programs. Emissions are not a valid concern, but a larger population is really hard on the environment in other ways. The liberals don’t care about any of these impacts. What we really need is to end legal immigration and strict enforcement of our current laws.