FAIR: Lunch Bucket Joe is Long Gone: Biden Betrays American Workers during Ongoing Economic Crisis
(March 31, 2021, Washington, D.C.) –
The following statement was released in response to the Biden administration’s impending decision to let to a guestworker pause expire in the middle of an ongoing economic crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. The statement should be attributed to Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR):
“President Biden loves to portray himself as a champion of the working class and a tireless defender of unemployed Americans, but today he showed his true colors. By restoring unfettered access to cheap foreign labor in the middle of an economic downturn, it shows how incredibly disconnected and uncaring he really is.
“Sadly, many of the jobs that were lost after COVID-19 first struck will never return. Now the very workers who held them will be competing toe-to-toe with foreign guestworkers, many of whom are willing to be paid less than their American counterparts. This move not only undermines the American worker but underscores President Biden’s thoughtless disregard for the American worker and his failure to understand that first and foremost, immigration policy must serve the national interest.
https://www.fairus.org/press-releases/fair-lunch-bucket-joe-long-gone-biden-betrays-american-workers-during-ongoing
