Tucker: Why does the USDA Want To Import Foreign Workers and Pay Them Less?

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CARLSON: “Over the weekend, NPR reported that Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue is fighting to lower something called the Adverse Effect Wage Rate. The AEWR essentially is a special minimum wage that applies only to guest workers in agriculture. It’s higher than the normal U.S. minimum wage. It was designed to prevent companies from using foreign workers to drive down American wages. Of course, driving down wages is the dream of most companies. Why wouldn’t it be? Now that the Department of Agriculture is working to help companies do that, lowering the federal wage rate wouldn’t simply make it easier to bring in more foreign workers. It would also allow companies to force pay cuts on any domestic employees they currently have. And if the workers don’t like it, they can be fired and replaced by foreigners.”