Bernie will hurt himself with Hispanics if he keeps saying immigration brings down wages. It's a lie

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107. Thanks for the nice note!

H-1B is rather personal for me... I've been pushed in to job contracting where I'm making less than I did 20 years ago, and another contract is being ended at the end of next week too.

H-2B and H-2A job programs are another example of how the PTB try to put in place a way of institutionalizing the race to the bottom.

I'm ALL FOR pushing for real immigration and letting people move here to become citizens and part of the American citizenry where they can have the rights to vote, unionize, and compete on an equal basis for jobs, and hopefully also contribute to our job infrastructure skillwise and our economy too by spending money here to stimulate our economy instead of sending money back home the way many of those on temporary work visas do.

One of the reasons I moved to the west coast from the midwest is that I like working in a diverse community, having lived a good portion of my young life overseas. I think Bernie appreciates this kind of perspective on helping out work forces globally. We might want to pay more attention more to our own economy and have things like tariffs, etc. to protect our jobs here, but I think the big goal if we work globally with workers around the world is to make it so that there isn't any "bottom" to race to. See if we can get pressure on all countries to provide adequately for all of their own citizens, not just the wealthy and allowing sweatshops to be in their country that get "raced to".

It's also a way I think of fighting climate change too, to ensure that there is no bottom in terms of environmental regulations, etc. that are "raced to" as well.