UAW President Downplays Mass Immigration, Known to Crush Unions: Illegals Are ‘Not Invading Our Nation’
by John Binder 21 Aug 2024
United Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain is shrugging off concerns over mass immigration, particularly a flood of illegal aliens at the southern border, and its historically crushing impact on labor unions.
In an interview with Axios, Fain downplayed the fact that President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have overseen more than 10 million migrant encounters at the nation’s borders since early 2021.
“They’re not invading our nation,” Fain said of illegal aliens. “They’re human beings.”
Fain’s remark underscores the gigantic shift on immigration policy among labor unions in the United States that started in the mid-1990s.
Whereas union leaders like the AFL-CIO’s Samuel Gompers and William Lucy of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists once lobbied against unchecked immigration to the United States, arguing it cuts wages, cripples the bargaining power of union workers, and diminishes living standards, Fain and union leaders today gloss over any impact mass immigration has on the jobs and wages of their members.
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