U.S. Chamber Chief on immigration

OMG, what is this. I thought only companies favour immigration
to exploit.

Which candidate's immigration plan is most palatable to business?

To me that's clear: John McCain. The bottom line is we've got 77
million people getting ready to retire. We have farmers in California
moving to Mexico to run their farms because they can't get workers. We
run out of H-1B visas for high-tech workers in the first couple of
months of the year. We have the lowest unemployment we've had in a
long time, and many of the people looking for jobs live in places
where there aren't jobs, and they aren't prepared to move. The
argument that immigrants are coming to take American jobs doesn't
carry a lot of weight. We have more jobs than we've got people.

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_09/b4073021418260.htm?...n=magaz

On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 03:38:34 -0800 (PST), Tambi Dude
wrote:

>OMG, what is this. I thought only companies favour immigration
>to exploit.
>
>Which candidate's immigration plan is most palatable to business?
>
>To me that's clear: John McCain. The bottom line is we've got 77
>million people getting ready to retire. We have farmers in California
>moving to Mexico to run their farms because they can't get workers. We
>run out of H-1B visas for high-tech workers in the first couple of
>months of the year. We have the lowest unemployment we've had in a
>long time, and many of the people looking for jobs live in places
>where there aren't jobs, and they aren't prepared to move. The
>argument that immigrants are coming to take American jobs doesn't
>carry a lot of weight. We have more jobs than we've got people.

Big lie. Workforce in the USA is about 120 million. Total population
is something like 330 million. A lot of the "unemployed" are students
and retired people, etc. Immigrants depress wages.

>http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_09/b4073021418260.htm?chan=magazine+channel_the+business+week