Senator John Curtis says, “Utah employers tell me time and again how difficult it’s become to find enough workers to meet growing demands.” Where, “Utah employers” is more accurately described as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
As a consequence, Senator Curtis (Utah) and Senator Mark Kelly (AZ) are proposing that individual states should have the right to issue H1B visas and import foreign workers without the federal immigration program in control. As the narrative is sold, there are no Utah Americans to fill the jobs available. That’s their story and they’re sticking to it.
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On the bad news side, there is no issue that shows the disconnect between the American public and federal politicians at a greater disparity than the issue(s) surrounding immigration and the various work visa programs. On the good news side, if you look at the comments toward ideas represented by Curtis you see about a 9/1 ratio against them.
Unfortunately, the DC politicians will not listen to the 90% against them, because they have unlimited power and affluence as delivered by multinational corporations and lobbyists like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (US CoC); the modern inverted Fascism.
Immigration and jobs are the issues above all other issues which will could maintain public support for MAGAnomics. However, the pressure within Washington DC to keep this primary economic issue under their control is massive.
On the communist side (Democrats), mass immigration keeps them in power. On the corporatist side (Republicans) mass immigration keeps them in affluence. Thus, the battle is really one of We The People against political elites on both sides.
In this dynamic the control mechanisms to keep We The People fighting over other ancillary issues serves the primary function of the UniParty.
EXAMPLE: Consider Charlie Kirk’s assassination. In the immediate aftermath of Kirks killing, everyone realized the violent nature of the cultural communists behind the transgender ideology. Democrats and Republicans alike were both united against killing American activists. The communists, corporatists and IC operatives quickly engaged to fracture the American unity. Israeli conspiracies were boosted, and soon enough the abhorrent, violent sexual deviancies within the cultural communist transgender movement were forgotten. The division creates the diversion.
The same issue of division is deployed against pragmatic deportation efforts. DHS Secretary Mullin notes that once it becomes political, meaning once the narrative is shaped to be divisive, then facing the core issue is avoided.
We imported around 10 million unvaccinated, medically unknown illegal aliens during the Biden era. Joe Biden and the culturally aligned NGOs moved them throughout the country. Then suddenly, as if we are not supposed to notice the timing, measles, chicken pox, whooping cough and other communicable diseases erupted again.
We notice attention is diverted to the generic issue of vaccination; as if a few hundred always unvaccinated Amish folks, could plausibly cloud the reality of the mass illegal alien influx as the main factor in spreading disease.
Mexican poop on imported lettuce is another root cause issue we are not allowed to mention. Why are we importing Mexican poop lettuce at all? We are not allowed to ask that question during the discussion, which coincidentally is the same type of information control which Senator Curtis is relying upon.
AFFORDABILITY CRISIS – We imported 10 million people who are non-functioning in a first world system. The illegal aliens are generally uneducated; most cannot speak the language; almost all don’t understand simple American customs and norms; they need housing, medical treatment, transportation and basic services. At the same time people wonder why housing costs, insurance rates and general commodity prices skyrocket.
Again, in the era of pretending not to know, we are not allowed to connect the cause and effect. Eat your Mexican poop lettuce and be a good compliant Comrade Citizen – direct your anger toward the narrated need. We need more federal Faucis to protect you from Mexican poop lettuce.
We do not need more H1B workers, or any visa workers at all. Cancel them all, then watch what happens to the wages and job opportunities of young tech Americans.
Deport 1 million illegal aliens per month; shut down all welfare systems and safety nets for illegal aliens; eliminate all healthcare services and taxpayer funded education for illegal aliens; make all systems for immigration status originate from consulate offices outside the United States – effectively eliminating the process within America; ban illegal aliens from access to banking and remittance payments, and begin the process of filing criminal charges against any/all employers who have illegal alien workers in their organizations.
Immediately suspend the business and regulatory licenses for any employer caught using illegal alien labor and watch the wages of blue-collar workers jump faster than the 30+ million empty houses and apartments can hit the market.
If illegal aliens are no longer fattening the profit margins for Big Ag, the multinational corporations will quickly invest in technology to compensate. Modern Big Ag follows the same model of Big Tobacco or Big Cotton.
Pretend not to notice that Holland has massive industrial agriculture without fields of row crops planted and harvested by illegal aliens from Mexico.
Decline is a choice. President Trump is proving that with his revitalization program around various Washington, DC memorials.
Importing Mexican poop lettuce is a choice.
The same is true of illegal immigration. The illegal aliens exist inside mainland USA because they are allowed to exist. If they were not allowed to exist, they would not be here.
Deport all illegal aliens, cancel all H1B and visa programs and we will prove we don’t need Senator Curtis’s bill. American wages will rise. American employers will compete for American talent. American benefits will expand. American housing and insurance costs will diminish. American life will improve and Generation Z will flourish.
Deport all illegal aliens.
Importing Mexican poop lettuce is a choice.
I have traveled all over Utah and have yet to come across anything resembling a big field of lettuce that needed picked. Arizona either.
Arizona is a big lettuce producer, second only to California in the U.S. Nearly all of it is grown in Yuma county in the southwestern corner of the state along the lower Colorado and Gila River valleys.
Used to go right in the fields down in Yuma County with a reefer truck they’d load you right in the fields, California too 🇺🇸🤠🇺🇸
Snake oil salesman with his pockets stuffed with money from the US Chamber of Commerce and other special interests.
Oh, yes, “rigorous” oversight from the Feds – just like the wonderful MEDICARE and MEDICAID programs legislators enacted, to name only two.
“He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.” (Plato)
Immediately, start demanding that the restaurants tell you where their lettuce in the salad came from.
Oh, that’s right…
They can’t,
they won’t,
don’t know,
don’t care.
Don’t order it.
My 14-yo grandson orders his Micky-Dee’s burgers now
WITHOUT LETTUCE.
You gotta start somewhere.
Sundance, you are making too much sense!
“Mexican poop lettuce”-hahaha
It’s everywhere.
Although John Curtis is republican, I had to look him up to determine party affiliation because, note, there is no mention of party affiliation in his quoted Tweet/Deseret.com quote; IMO, proof-positive of Uniparty existence; repeal the 17th.
How does repealing the 17th end uniparty existence, in the Senate ? It just returns to the same corrupt system we had before it.
A limit of two Senate terms of six, maybe only five years each would have the most impact.
I have a better idea:
“ If illegal aliens are no longer fattening the profit margins for Big Ag, the multinational corporations will quickly invest in technology to compensate. Modern Big Ag follows the same model of Big Tobacco or Big Cotton.”
My idea is simple and it will work. Instead of fighting a losing battle against cheap labor and also spending trillions deportating millions of illegal citizens, do this one simple trick.
Offer incentives to American ag and to service industries, etc. to hire American workers. For every verified American citizen hired, offer tax incentives and payroll incentives to make it more profitable for businesses to hire verified American citizens than it is to pay the lower wages of illegals.
Easy peasy. Then slam shut the free benefits to illegals. No school, no, free housing, no SNAP no medical. The money saved here would provide trillions to offer incentives to hire verified American citizens.
Problem solved
LOL!
Sundance you crack me up , sometimes. I did mention a week or 2 ago, I did have mexico lettuce bought from Walmart about 3 or 4 times, thinking I’ll buy something more “healthy” for my gut to make it work better. Worse mistake I made, I POOPED handfuls an hour or 2 after eatting a big bowl of salad with all the fixings. I made that mistake a few times until I researched it on google. Lettuce came up as possible cause. Sure enough, once I stopped eatting the large salad with mexican lettuce, no more mad rushes to get to the bathroom which I failed to get to in time.
Anyway, you raising this ISSUE as issue … Is needed … how long did Walmart hide this issue from us, there was no warnings on walmarts site … at least when I checked a couple of weeks ago.
Scary when our government hides this stuff, and “healthy items” might not be that healthy like packaged lettuce from mexico.
I feel your pain; no, really, I do.
They think we’re stupid. There are programs in place to get their illegals picking whatever crop they think Americans won’t. Only those programs will cost employers more money. If they started fining companies for hiring illegals as they should be, then the cost to use the program becomes cheaper than paying massive fines for each infringement. Yet, here we are being told to just let the status quo remain the status quo. Frustrating is the tamest thing I can say about it.
Buying Messican poop lettuce is also a choice.
I noticed the correlation to food borne pathogens over a decade ago with Messican poop lettuce being the #1 offender. I stopped buying prepared food with lettuce in/on it & lettuce of any kind.
I don’t miss it.
Sure as heck agree with that guy who wants to get rid of the senate. That’s one branch on the tree that needs to be trimmed off. Either that or send them home to their states and let the make decisions from there. In this day and age, sitting in a room while spouting stupidity. Tisn’t necessary. They don’t keep the IC in check, they don’t keep the judical in check yet have have no trouble causing the president to get nothing done.
As an owner of a construction company which hires legal workers, I say bust the bastards hiring illegal workers. -NOW
If I pay a laborer $20 per hour that has about 50% additional in benefits like vacation, holidays, health care. Now cost is $30 per hour.
Illegals will work for about 75% of prevailing wage. That is $15 per hour. My cost is double.
So if you have a nice $20 million dollar per year gross revenue business, assume 30% of revenue is Labor Expense. (other things are equipment, material, fuel, maintenance, and overhead).
That 30% is $6 million dollars. Cut that in half with illegals and you pocket $3 million of that labor expense. A 10% optimal margin of $2 million dollars now increase $3 million more to $5 million. Pretty damn good a 25% net margin
Since we mostly work on low bid, hard dollar, contractor at risk contracts we have zero pricing power. The companies using illegals can always cut prices.
I’m bitching because my CDs make a better margin than my construction company. Fortunately I have my BTC and lots of real estate, but the people asking (like this senator from Utah) for illegals are cheating.
On a good note, my work is usually of higher quality with less returns for defects. The companies that hire us when we do bid low enough are delighted to have us. But when I ask, “about that clause in the contract that I claim I only hire legal workers, when are you going to press the issue with the other contractors? They don’t want to do that because their business benefits from the lower costs created by illegal workers.
Can someone explain how we have a labor participation rate the lowest we’ve seen since 1975 and yet we have a shortage of workers?
From the St Luis Fed.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CIVPART
Demographic changes such as the aging of population can lead to a secular increase of exits from the labor force, shrinking the labor force and decreasing the labor force participation rate, but maybe it’s also related to too damn much government money for NOT working?
Removing the benefit of economic immigration will disincentivize many, but we also need to remove benefits from Americans that should be working, instead of being on the dole.
Not sure if they count immigrants as part of the whole but it would be interesting to see how the pro immigration lobby responds. If they count for this number, there are many more Americans sitting home, if they don’t count, is it all because of ageing? I doubt it. Evidence is all the healthy protesters out there during normal working hours.
Senator Curtis, are you aware we have a lettuce picking workforce right outside many federal buildings?
AND inside those federal buildings… A lot of them aren’t fit for much more than picking lettuce.
I live in Big AG country and the one thing i NEVER EVER see ANYWHERE is any postings for “Farm Help Wanted”
so do not tell me that Americans do not want these jobs, I have a white American neighbor who usually does farm work but can not get a job on a farm here.
Traditionally, farm help has been the youngsters of the nearest town. I spoke with a MN dairy farmer who said those young people will NOT do farm work because they prefer sitting at home playing video games with an allowance from their white liberal momma thinking that very soon they will be a boss at a big company. Youngsters don’t mow lawns or any of the other neighborly things that need doing.
As a Generation X’r, I have a better idea that served my generation and myself very well. There is an entire workforce perfectly tailored to this manual labor that dropped off the map a while back. High School graduates looking to make a little scratch while they decide their next move (whether it be college or some other vocation). Personally, I worked RR Track demolition as well as in an orchard picking fruit to make money for college. IN FACT, I’d like to see such manual labor a condition of securing student loans (to an extent). Salary of the applicant used as collateral. Instead, the last couple of generations are perfectly content to have it handed to them regardless of the source. Then, they are perfectly content to ignore the consequences of those decisions. We have the people to “pick lettuce.” It’s just that those people don’t have the ambition or scruples to understand personal responsibility.
I picked apples one year between high school and the Army… Only person of my complexion out there picking… In 1983.
Every high-schooler needs a part-time job after school & weekends in service or labor of some kind… it serves up many life lessons early in life; it helps orient one’s internal compass.
Until the government fears the people, instead of vice-versa…things will never change.
I live in close proximity to the Amish, buy their produce and hire them for carpentry whenever possible. They built my deck in 2021 and I spoke with them daily. I asked the “Boss” of the outfit if he ever heard the joke about the guy who asked one of them:
Q: Why aren’t the Amish, who are unvaccinated, affected by the Covid “pandemic”?
A: Because we don’t watch television.
He told me he had heard it several times before and we both laughed
I agree 100% . We do not need all the imported labor. If we don’t have the skill then train an American. Of course you may have to pay them a living wage. The profit margin is never big enough for many of the fat cats. Evidence is the recent earnings of the oil companies. Keep up this manipulative greed and we will have more communism than we have now.
“almost all don’t understand simple American customs and norms”
This is huge. People are not plug and play from one culture to another.
I work in tech and train new hires on our computer systems. The more distant from western culture they are the more likely they won’t fit in and will be fired. I not only have to teach immigrants how to do something but the reasons behind doing it. I’m teaching them to think like an American.
It’s so nice to train an American new hire because I can say a few words and they understand the whole concept.
A couple months ago I noticed someone who used our office men’s bathroom was peeing all over the inside of the toilet, the outside of the toilet, the floor, the walls. I couldn’t understand how anyone could be that bad a shot. One of the janitors came to me and said they saw it was someone on my team and asked if I could talk to them. So I had to teach this man from a third world hell hole how to use a toilet. I was embarrassed doing it. I couldn’t tell what he was thinking.
I have been growing my own lettuce, spinach and Japanese mustard greens in a Garden Tower and Click and Grow system for about 6 months. It was a costly start-up but now I am “reaping” the benefits and no explosive poop!
Call it what it really is: indentured servitude, and agricultural slavery. Both of these practices were supposedly outlawed by the 13th Amendment. But that thing is obviously not worth the piece of vellum it was handwritten on.
“Affordability Crisis~We imported 10 million people who are non-functioning in a first world system. The illegal aliens are generally uneducated; most cannot speak the language; almost all don’t understand simple American customs and norms; they need housing, medical treatment, transportation and basic services. At the same time people wonder why housing costs, insurance rates and general commodity prices skyrocket.”
10 million is too generously low, because 4 million are in MASSACHUSETTS !!
If the country was in need of an enema they would have to insert the hose in Massachusetts !
Well, first of all, wages aren’t growing at a fast enough rate to suggest any sort of labor shortage.
Even if they ever do, the way to address it is to begin constricting the payouts of the welfare state so that laying about is a lot less comfortable than going to work.
Problem solved. Now tell this jerk of a Senator and his cronies at the US Chamber of Crony Capitalism to eat some imported lettuce.
Sundance and some of you nice people probably remember when either congress or supreme court said it was ok for Companies to give money to politicans to get elected.
Can you guys remember it, … my mind is a little foggy how long ago it was. I knew at the time, that that would be a stupid idea.
I liked it better when only small contributions to politicans was “the law of the land”, or at least I thought that was what happened (maybe I was naive).
Anyway, the supreme court as made some very bad decisions in the past … and still makes some bad decisions currently.
Back to Mexico POOP lettuce situation … and helping to get the word out to the masses.
Citizens United
{ https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/citizens-united-explained }
{ https://campaignlegal.org/update/how-does-citizens-united-decision-still-affect-us-2026 }
If we make it impossible for them to vote ever ! The insufferable grifters will mass deport every single one of them
Mark Kelly – enough said.
In the near future there will be robotic machines that harvest the lettuce. 🥬. Other crops too.
Am I to understand that the unemployment rate in Utah (and Arizona) is ZERO? If not, then there are workers available without having to import them. Also, if there are able bodied Utahans and Arizonans on public assistance then there are workers available, especially if those who are on public assistance have children in child care facilities or schools.
It is maddening to think that we have allegedly intelligent people in Congress who are too stupid to realize the immigration ponzi scheme being perpetrated on the American taxpayers.
“Deport all illegal aliens, cancel all H1B and visa programs and we will prove we don’t need Senator Curtis’s bill. American wages will rise. American employers will compete for American talent. American benefits will expand. American housing and insurance costs will diminish. American life will improve and Generation Z will flourish.
Deport all illegal aliens.
Importing Mexican poop lettuce is a choice.”
Sounds like a plan!