Re: the Oct. 6 letter "470,000 Venezuelans to stay and work."
I want to thank the letter writer for clarifying why Biden is so interested in allowing Venezuelans (and other immigrants) into this country. The unemployment rate of foreign-born persons in the United States is now 3.4% and they are filling jobs in agriculture, service, construction and maintenance. Their influx, though initially costly, will become more and more important as the Boomer generation ages and retires. We will need millions of new workers to keep the labor force constant let alone growing. If Mr. Jacobs hadn’t told us that they were here simply to “cement the Democratic party’s power and control of the country”, I would have ignorantly assumed they were here to escape either natural or man-made disasters such as poverty, violence and drugs and make a better life for themselves and their families (and incidentally help this country continue to flourish).
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Kenneth Cohn
Northwest side
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