When they want to send their kids to college. they look at the cost of tuition. and they find colleges costing $30.000. $35.000. $40.000. $45.000 a year. and people are making $30.000 a year. We are seeing kids in this country nowlowincome kidsnot going to college and others coming out deeply in debt. Now. in the midst of all of that. we have this immigration bill. a bill that would allow employers to hire hundreds of thousands. if not millions. of workers from other countries in both lowskilled jobs and highskilled jobs. It is important to noteand this point has not been made often enough. but it is important to note many of the same corporate groups that supported NAFTA. that supported PNTR with China. and other disastrous trade agreements. that these same businesses that fought against an increase in the minimum wage. saying: Hey. $5.15 an hour. we dont have to go higher than that. these same companies that have outsourced hundreds of thousands of jobs to China. to Mexico. to Vietnam. to India. to other lowwage countries. these same companies are supporting this legislation. Lets understand that. and let us ask why that is the case. Why are companies that opposed the minimum wage. that oppose the right of workers to form unions. that oppose anything that makes sense for the American middle class supporting this legislation? Some of those groups are the National Restaurant Association. the Business Roundtable. the American Hotel & Lodging Association. These are all groups that opposed raising the minimum wage above $5.15 an hour. and they are sitting here saying: Well. we think this immigration bill is a good bill for us. Hightech companies that have sent hundreds of thousands of jobs overseas. they think this legislation is good. Why?
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