Indiana And Utah Governors Say They Want Sponsored Immigration To Fill Open Jobs, Says ‘Every US State Shares A Border With The Rest Of The World’

Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb and Utah Governor Spencer Cox, both Republicans, wrote in an editorial piece for The Washington Post – a very liberal-leaning newspaper – why they feel their states and others in the U.S. should sponsor immigration, claiming that there are hundreds of thousands of jobs unfilled, but could be less if more immigrants are shipped and subsidized to the states.

Though their op-ed was published on February 21st, 2023, their sentiments are pertinent considering the recent string of events, with the Supreme Court ordering Texas to teardown their makeshift razor wall to slowdown the flow of illegal immigrants crossing their borders, though Texas has decided to dig its heels and resist the Court’s controversial ruling.

Here is what the two Governors wrote almost a year ago to-date:

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To Solve Our National Immigration Crisis, Let States Sponsor Immigrants

Indiana has about 220,000 open jobs right now and Utah has 107,000, according to the most recent federal data — more than 6 percent of all jobs in both states. With strong business and tax environments, we like our chances in the competition for job-seekers moving from other states. But they won’t be enough to fill all of those vacancies. We also need immigrants who are ready to work and help build strong communities.

To help us do our jobs as governors, we call on Congress to end its two-decade standoff on setting immigration policy — one of its most basic duties. And, as leaders of states, we pledge to share the accountability. Though border security is a national concern, and a nonnegotiable requirement of national security in a world with drug cartels and terrorists, we believe that states should be able to sponsor whatever immigrants serve the needs of their communities. As it is, the standstill on immigration hobbles both parties and, more seriously, endangers America’s long-term well-being.

A growing, bipartisan group of senators appears to share our sense of urgency. But voices on one side call for an overly liberal national immigration policy that overlooks the toll on border states and encourages too many people to take dangerous journeys that can end in legal limbo. Meanwhile, voices on the other side call immigrants a burden, against all the evidence from economics and history.

The United States became prosperous because many immigrants saw our beacon and seized the freedoms and opportunities offered here. That formula has not changed. As of 2021, for example, nearly half of America’s Fortune 500 companies had been founded by an immigrant or the child of one.

At home, we see more ordinary stories of immigrants contributing to our state economies. Julian Diaz entered the United States in search of work in the 1990s. His son Juan now employs four other Hoosiers in a successful landscaping business, while Juan’s son studies computer science in college. Bassam Salem, born in Egypt, came to the United States more than 30 years ago with his parents and grew up in Utah. He eventually secured permanent residency, became a U.S. citizen and founded two successful technology start-ups that have contributed millions to the economy.

Rapidly declining birthrates and accelerating retirements across the United States mean that our states’ already wide job gaps will grow to crisis proportions without more families such as these — causing our growth engines to sputter. Many of these jobs require high-level skills and entrepreneurship. But states are also awash in unfilled entry-level, low-skill roles — essential in agriculture, health care and the service industries.

So, count us as supporters of immigration sponsorship by the states. Under such authority, similar to what employers and universities have already, each state could make its own decisions. They could sponsor no visas or many visas each year, up to a limit set by Congress, for the specific sorts of jobs they need to fill.

Immigration sponsorship would give states a dynamic means to attract new residents, both from a pool of new applicants from abroad and from the ranks of current asylum seekers. The policy would also expand the states’ responsibility for the contributions and success of these folks in American life.

Washington would need to grant us such authority. And, of course, that’s not the only task on Washington’s list after two decades of punting. There is no way to approach immigration without three basic components: rules to determine who can come in and how, and who can stay; unflinching enforcement of such rules; and some kind of review-and-repeat process to assure that the United States offers paths to citizenship based on our evolving needs. The rules must include a practical approach to illegal immigrants who came to this country as children. And enforcement must include firm control of all entry points.

Perhaps it will help our representatives in Washington to know that governors and many other people back home in the states have their backs. The two of us are not unicorns, and last week’s National Governors Association meeting encouraged us to believe that others will soon step up, as well.

Our southwestern states bear the brunt of today’s immigration catastrophe, which forces those states to house, clothe and feed an unrelenting stream of people. But in meaningful ways, every U.S. state shares a border with the rest of the world, and all of them need investment, markets and workers from abroad. That border can remain an embarrassment, or it can become a big asset to us once again.

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AUTHOR COMMENTARY

Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

Lamentations 5:2

As I have said many times before, Republican and Democrat are just constructs to divide people, but on a number of core issues it is just a plain-as-day uniparty to the fullest; which is evidenced in their stances towards immigration and asylum, foreign policy and war, fiat currency and pyramid scheme economy; and being completely bought and sold on a myriad of issues, by lobbyists, corporations, banksters, private interests, and more.

These two sellouts are just Neocon globalists. Saying “every U.S. state shares a border with the rest of the world,” is the quintessential globalist credo, basically. Come one, come all, and we the homeborn slaves get to pay for it.

Of course, Holcomb, as I have demonstrated before, is indeed a globalist punk who was recommended by Mike Pence after he left to be Trump’s VP, and was voted-in twice by people who arrogantly straight-ticket their votes; on the pretense that the elephants are the good guys, better than a Dem, or it’s the “lesser of two evils.” As a Hoosier myself let me say, congratulations, all you Hoosiers who breathe in your daily dose of hopium to stay alive, you got what you voted for. You reap what you sow.

Holcomb was a guest at the 2022 World Economic Forum summit, so that tells you the story right there. Taken from his bio on the WEF’s website, it says, “He has a mission to increase Indiana’s competitiveness in the global economy by ‘“bringing the world to Indiana and taking Indiana to the world.”’ Ah, now we know what THAT means! Got it. As a Hoosier born and raised, what clods like Holcomb do are more pertinent to me. I have more articles on him already.

The fact is what Holcomb and Cox wrote is one of the many reasons why this country is burning alive right now. Total disregard for its own citizens, but more concerned about being a good globalist so they can get better seats at the table. Notwithstanding however, the citizens must demand change and force change. But, alas, we know they will not, and such necessary changes are far too late to be implemented…

[4] Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward. [7] Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

Isaiah 1:4-7

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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).

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