Outrage of the week was surely Utah Senator Mike Lee getting his S.386 bill through the U.S. Senate. S.386 means a massive loosening of the rules for foreign workers to take up white-collar jobs in the U.S.A. Washington Watcher II wrote on Thursday: 'The deceptively-named Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act scraps country caps on migration and allows India to dominate our immigration system. It’s estimated that over 90 percent of professional employment-based visas would go to Indians for the next 10 years under the bill. The Act is heavily touted by the Indian lobby and Big Tech.' Lee didn’t have to break much of a sweat to get his bill passed. He used a Senate rule called “Unanimous Consent,” which allows the chamber to pass legislation with no hearings or debate, so long as no Senator objects. No Senator did—not one. One of my themes about immigration, which I’ve been airing for at least seventeen years, is that it’s really really hard to get people to think about immigration. It’s a slow, silent process, working away invisibly in the background of our national life. There’s always something more urgent, more dramatic, for politicians to make speeches about. Immigration policy is the classic case of frog-boiling.
John Derbyshire, “US Senate (INCLUDING Republican Senators) to U.S. Citizen Tech Workers—Drop!” (December 5th 2020).
