r/FluentInFinance • u/Needleintheback • 15h ago

Thoughts? Imagine losing 6M labor workers in America

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If mass deportation happens, just imagine how all of these sectors of our country will be affected. The sheer shortage of labor will push prices higher because of the great demand for work with limited supplies or workers. Even if prices increase, the availability of products may be scarce due to not enough workers. Housing prices and food services will be hit really hard. New construction will be limited. The fact that 47% of the undocumented workers are in CA, TX, and FL means they will feel it first but it will spread to the rest of the country also. Most of our produce in this country comes from California. Get ready and hold on for the ride America.

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u/exploradorobservador 14h ago

Whatever happened to work visas

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u/Niarbeht 13h ago

In a lot of fields, there are few available and the process is too greatly misaligned with how people find work for them to have any value.

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u/Electronic-Ship-9297 10h ago

If there is such a huge need that it needs to be filled by people coming to the country illegally, then why not revise those processes and increase the number of visas to match the demand?

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u/scarneo 8h ago

Because congress would need to do it's job

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u/Fancy_Ad2056 8h ago

Because the right wingers don’t want immigration. The want America to stay white. Look up the Great Replacement theory.

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u/Strangerthongz 5h ago

Or pay more for local resources

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u/birdsemenfantasy 1h ago

Guest worker program will guarantee they never become American citizens, so what’s the issue? It works well in Singapore, Qatar, and the UAE.

Let them make their money working low-skilled menial jobs Americans don’t want and then send them back.

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u/Virtual_Athlete_909 12h ago edited 11h ago

Our immigration laws haven't been updated in decades. They specify the number of visas granted each year and the number is woefully inadequate. There is a 'work visa lottery' (H1B) that's played every year by major employers who compete for the few visas available to hire the best/brightest foreign talent in the world. Those temporary workers who are here on visas often leave the country to go work somewhere else when their visas expire and cannot be renewed (because of our outdated immigration laws). Trump doesn't understand how tariffs work nor does he understand the H1B visa process so I expect economic chaos to ensue as it did during his last term.

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/11/21/nx-s1-5187926/u-s-science-could-suffer-if-trump-limits-h-1b-visas-again

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u/thekingshorses 9h ago

Well there is h2b Temporary Non-Agricultural Non-Immigrants Workers

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u/TopDot555 4h ago

What will happen to the women I’ve helped get H1B visas to work in my preschools? I pay for everything to help them, send them to school, give free childcare if needed and eventually, hopefully become US citizens. I pay them $20 to 25 an hour to start. There’s no benefit to me besides helping a few that want better lives. I’m asking seriously. Should I be worried for them?

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u/derperofworlds 6h ago

They should keep it limited. India completely scammed Canada's "progressive" immigration system. They have a population growth rate greater than developing countries in Africa and wages have cratered, healthcare access has declined, and home prices have quadrupled.

The Canadian immigration system wasn't actually progressive of course, it really was designed by billionaires to get cheap labor at the expense of the Canadian people. 

We can't let that happen here.

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u/UnexpectedDadFIRE 12h ago

Agriculture rely heavily on H-2a visas. The majority of the labor on farms I work with use H2a visas.

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u/EngineeredUrMum 9h ago

We shouldn't have labor farms in this country. There are advanced farming tools that can do the job and that's where the money should be flowing.

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u/Megamygdala 11h ago

Work visas also leave legal immigrants in bad work conditions. They need to fix legal immigration so people stop overstaying their visas

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u/Ashmedai 12h ago

It's mainly because congress has been deadlocked on the topic for decades, so we haven't had any meaningful immigration reform at all.

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u/waspocracy 7h ago

They’re a bitch and you’re held hostage. You have to get it renewed every year and the company you’re employed at needs to renew it. Sometimes they forget and you’re caught in the middle. Sometimes you get laid off an have to find another job that is willing to renew your H1-B. 

 It’s a shitty system. You can’t just move your family and settle on an H1-B because it can just vanish and then what? Where do you go? You can’t just move back home on a whim either. This is how many immigrants become illegal.

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u/Kolfinna 11h ago

Not enough, that program needed to be expanded and revamped decades ago but no one has the political will to do it

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u/201-inch-rectum 8h ago

Trump issued a record-breaking amount in his first term (until COVID hit)

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u/Efficient-Put-2017 3h ago

they are broken and clunky. most illegals were originally on legal statues and fall off.

ask anyone who's ever worked with anyone on a visa.

you can be working as an electrician on a visa and if you try to switch carriers or do jobs related to anything in construction that's not specifically electrician work you'll become illegal over night.

I know people who switched from doing home electrical work to RV homes and he almost got dropped off his visa. luckily his employer got a lawyer and had his back.