Domino's Pizza CEO says U.S. needs more immigration to address nationwide worker shortages

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61. Certainly not my job

But the lower rung? Sure. Increasing the number of the exploited class? Absolutely.

Immigration cannot be unchecked. And it isn't only for the protection of American workers, it's for the protection of the immigrants themselves, so they're not ruthlessly taken advantage of.

Scapegoat? Seriously? Corporations are part of the Republican Establishment. They play failure theater on immigration. They claim they want to do something about it, then do little to nothing. That's why Trump's populism succeeded. Because he actually meant it. That Wall shit was precisely because the Republican Establishment had very little intention. When Trump told right-wingers, "I will actually do something here," it resonated hugely. He owes much of his primary win to it.

And people keep only talking about refugees coming across the border. What about the H1 visas companies use to replace skilled workers? Tech companies love these things. They find any excuse. Remember this shit?

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/us/last-task-after-layoff-at-disney-train-foreign-replacements.html

Instead, about 250 Disney employees were told in late October that they would be laid off. Many of their jobs were transferred to immigrants on temporary visas for highly skilled technical workers, who were brought in by an outsourcing firm based in India. Over the next three months, some Disney employees were required to train their replacements to do the jobs they had lost.

“I just couldn’t believe they could fly people in to sit at our desks and take over our jobs exactly,” said one former worker, an American in his 40s who remains unemployed since his last day at Disney on Jan. 30. “It was so humiliating to train somebody else to take over your job. I still can’t grasp it.”

Disney executives said that the layoffs were part of a reorganization, and that the company opened more positions than it eliminated.

But the layoffs at Disney and at other companies, including the Southern California Edison power utility, are raising new questions about how businesses and outsourcing companies are using the temporary visas, known as H-1B, to place immigrants in technology jobs in the United States. These visas are at the center of a fierce debate in Congress over whether they complement American workers or displace them.

The refugee question is a smokescreen to cover up a metric fuck ton of problems our current policies generate. It works on people's guilt while the corporations and the wealthy exploit the working and immigrant classes with impunity.

"Why don't you feel bad, you (probably racist) monster?!"

But the low wages, shitty living situations, and limited access to healthcare? Criiiiiiickets.