The Courage to be Free, by Ron DeSantis: on Corporations


Republican Party: Corporations focus immigration on facilitating cheap labor

The Republican intelligentsia inside the Beltway believed as an article of faith that, to win national elections, Republicans needed to embrace amnesty for illegal aliens. DC Republicans supported major expansions of immigration to serve corporate interests, particularly in ways that would facilitate more cheap labor. The effect that such policies might have on the wages of American workers did not seem to be much concern--a classic example of Beltway Republicans putting Americans last.

The perceived political incentive for amnesty combined with the corporate desire for cheap labor led to the so-called Gang of Eight immigration bill--which represented the largest amnesty in American history and green-lighted a massive expansion of future immigration. The Gang of Eight bill passed the US senate in June 2013, with fourteen Republicans joining all Democrats, and then landed in the US House.

Source: The Courage to be Free, by Gov. Ron DeSantis, p. 33 Feb 28, 2023

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