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Why Employers Hire Foreign Workers

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   WASHINGTON, Aug. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Center for
   Immigration Studies has published a new backgrounder, "Motivation for
   Hiring Alien Workers? Hint: It's Not a Labor Shortage", analyzing the
   reasons behind the employer push for a massive increase in temporary
   foreign worker admissions.

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   The new analysis finds that temporary alien workers are attractive to
   employers not only because of below-market wages but also because they
   are indentured by their terms of admission to the United States.
   Further, these workers are recruited from relatively docile,
   authority-fearing Third World populations and thus can be easier to
   manage than Americans. Finally these programs allow the employer to
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   The backgrounder's author and a Fellow at the Center, David North,
   comments, "Politicians and advocates for mass immigration were
   successful in having an enormous increase in foreign worker programs
   like the H1-B inserted in the Senate bill (S. 744) by citing a labor
   shortage and the need for the 'best and the brightest.' However, a
   shortage only exists because employers are not willing to increase
   wages. It is clearly in their best interest, as opposed to the best
   interest of the American worker or the economy, to instead get Congress
   to adjust and expand the work force."

   View the paper at:
   http://cis.org/labor-shortage-not-reason-employers-want-alien-workers.

   North also discusses a rarely mentioned policy problem, ethnocentric
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   Before laying out the motivation for employers to seek increased
   foreign workers, Mr. North debunks the idea that the United States has
   a labor shortage or lacks access to the necessary best and the
   brightest workers. According to the backgrounder, rather than targeting
   the programs to the limited number of unique situations, "these systems
   impose both serious displacement and wage-depression impacts on the